George Walsh on Protestant Fundamentalism
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The Importance of Moral Perfection
fundamentalist Protestant point of view differs far more from the Jewish. It's like holding a mirror up to your kid and showing him how dirty his face is, it says. The real function of the law was to present an ideal of perfection to which they could not possibly live up. That was what the law was. This is first step. He gives them a law. Defining what moral perfection is. Now here's the unique fundamentalist Protestantpoint of view. And it's a very important thing. Why did he give them a law? He never anticipated that they would be able to keep this law. Since they were already depraved, how could they possibly keep the law that he had given
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