Seed of faith in what? Do you mean faith in the Christian god? Note that only one third of the world is considered Christian oriented, and that is far from the whole of mankind.
Faith is having the kingdom of God within you and
is not irrational belief. Wether you call God Allah or Jesus should
matter here. When I say good, I mean true goodness.
Not the good that the Pharisees did which was
only for the praise of others.
But then one doesn’t need to believe in gods to achieve that. I can argue that to do ‘good’ is in the interests of everyone not just myself. I.e. I will do ‘good’ because I have reasoned that there is an inherent value to being good. This is rational morality. The Christian does good because he is told to do good with the expectation of a reward in heaven.
Not only is religious faith unnecessary for true morality but it is inherently dishonest and hypocritical.
This is untrue, Jesus said that a good servent does not
expect any reward. Will an athiest lay down his life
to do good? Jesus gives the example of a poor woman
giving two coins that was all she had to live on. Can
she do this without expecting that God will feed her?
People experience pain and death daily and in far more significant degree. What is so special about someone who is immortal and infinite experiencing momentary pain? Compare that to someone who only lives for a few decades and has been suffering from painful terminal cancer for months.
Jesus had been betrayed by those he loved. Christians
believe that he was expierencing pain of all of our sins
on the cross.
This is not the same thing. In the Christian resurrection myth it is Jesus who sacrifices himself.
However Abraham says to Issac "God hiimself will
provide the sheep for the holocaust". Abraham
also knew that his only son was going to heaven.
That doesn’t necessarily follow, one might be simply indifferent. The inaction to do ‘good’ is not necessarily an evil action. An evil action is a positive action to be destructive.
I consider the inaction to do good to be sloth and evil.
The way the gospels tell the myth it is obvious that the crucifixion was politically engineered by a few zealots. What would have happened if there had been a modern justice system in place controlled by a true democracy? And what if the majority of people had been told his real nature and all the issues involved, would he then have been killed under such circumstances.
There have been lynchings even in a modern societies justice
system. They were told his true nature and it was his
true nature that offended them.
But really there are no actions are not motivated by personal reward. Even those who apparently do good deeds at seemingly some cost to themselves (i.e. altruism) do so because it makes them feel good about themselves. Doing good because your religion tells you to is probably the worst reason to do good since it removes personal choice and integrity.
Which is why only God is good. Also people can do good because
there very nature is good and so their actions are just
a manifestation of this.
That message is fine but it contradicts other parts of the bible, and when the whole bible is considered the word of God then how is a Christian meant to decide what to follow?
The bible does not say that it is the complete word of God and
the books were not constructed into the complete bible
until 325AD. There are sections of praise to God that
were written by man. Jesus says to judge what is wrong but not to judge others. Society of course as to judge in order
to maintain order but never do we judge who is going
to hell and who isn't.
