What would you think of a person like this?

Question

Here's the deal this guy:

Doesn't smoke, drink, do drugs, or have illicit sex.

He is aware of most if not all of his personality flaws and has actively been working on becoming more patient, joyful, understanding, and forgiving. He has had a lot of success with this over the past 1.5 years. His biggest flaws are being judgmental, having a quick temper, being stubborn, and being a bit of a sourpuss.
He is very philosophical, determined, loyal, trustworthy, intelligent, intuitive and does not mind doing loads of volunteer work. He also is fairly wise for his age.
He is in shape, has been told he is easy on the eyes, and is in his mid 20s. He has long hair.
He is an Eagle Scout, a Martial artist, a nerd, and a good writer.
He hopes to start working on getting a degree in acupuncture soon.

And now the reason I post this here: he has spiritual leanings in Quakerism, Buddhism, Paganism (Druidic and Norse), likes metaphysics, and can do energy work/magic. He has never been baptized.

And now for the reason I posted this.

It was to make the argument that a decent, albeit flawed, person can follow a moral code without being Christian. It seems, however, that most people either concentrated on the flaws, or the lack of faith in Christianity. Very few of you actually saw the point that I was trying to illustrate.

I wonder, if I had listed this person as a devout Christian and did not list their flaws, how some of you would have thought.

The reason he does not follow a Christian God is because he sees several different messages that are being preached and which contradict each other. He knows very well that if a person is very judgmental, they cannot be very compassionate.

I wish all of you the best of luck on your paths.

Answer 1

Sounds like a good person who is working on himself while being a good person to others. If his belief system is a little different from average - I don't really care.

Answer 2

"And now the reason I post this here: he has spiritual leanings in Quakerism, Buddhism, Paganism (Druidic and Norse), likes metaphysics, and can do energy work/magic."

He's nonexistent. There's no such thing as "magic", and "energy work" is just wishful thinking or a deliberate scam. Sounds like an earnest person, but a little shallow.

Answer 3

I think that he has very good qualities and its great to realize your shortcomings and make a change. But those flaws are pretty bad. Believe me those flaws can become unbearable, my ex is like that i love him so much but u just can't get past those flaws they are a love destroyer... I think the worst flaw is judgmental cause its the root to all those other flaws. He has got to realize that you can't understand yourself sometimes and no one is perfect so why be judgmental to others. Life is difficult and full of downfalls you can't be judgmental. People have reasons as to why they are who they are just like he does and you can't judge them by that just like it wouldn't be fair to judge him either... Hope he fixes his flaws cause it does really bring you happiness..

Answer 4

Our standard of being a good person doesn't get people accepted to heaven or even by God. God doesn't look at the outer surface he looks at the heart. God doesn't judge based on the bad and good things you do. He measures by faith do you believe that Jesus Christ is God. The bible says You can't serve two gods, because one will soon dominate the other.

Answer 5

I would like to meet him. I am sure God is working through him real well, based on his sincere efforts, to be a positive asset to this world. God, is mainly interested, in whether a person is overall a positive contributer, to making this a better world.

Answer 6

Sounds like a cool guy. Why?

He sounds a little like me, except I've been told I have cold, peircing eyes.

I'm a little cynical, can be quick to anger if it's my little brother, somewhat of a nerd and ver philosophical.

Except that I'm younger than him. Alot younger.

Answer 7

It seems to me that this person is still searching for himself...and having a hell of a good time doing it.

More power to him...at least he isn't lazy.

They say that "some people can be educated beyond their intelligence", but in my opinion...education is never wasted.

Answer 8

He sounds like a well rounded individual on the path to discovering himself, and spirituality.

Answer 9

And your question is "what would I think of him"???

I think that if he has ever broken any of God's Laws and has not asked God to forgive him (because of the vicarious death, burial and resurrection of Jesus Christ to pay the penalty for those sins), then when he stands before God on Judgement day, he will be without excuse.

It's nice that people try to live a good life. It makes it so much easier for everyone. I mean, he's not going out threatening my life or property, he's not being a nuisance, and that's all very helpful in today's society.

But, as the Scripture points out, "All our righteousness is as filthy rags before God."

I mean, he's already broken God's Laws, so the penalty has already been placed on his head. All the good things he does AFTER his guilt has been established will not undo what he has already done.

Maybe this sounds a bit harsh, but let me give you a hypothetical situation.

Let's say you're driving your car down the road, and you're going about 45 miles an hour in a 15 mile an hour school zone. You reach a signal light that is red, and cars are driving through the intersection. You don't stop, you don't even slow down! As a result, there is a 3-car crash with 3 injured and 2 dead.

Now, let me ask you this: How many red lights must he stop at in order to undo NOT stopping at THIS red light?

You see, each red light must be stopped at for it's OWN sake, and can not be used retroactively to undo NOT stopping at a previous light.

So, once you are guilty of breaking God's Law, doing good does not undo the guilt. Each time you do good, it is for THAT moment, and can not be used retroactively to undo a wrong once committed in the past.

Does that help to understand why this person is STILL in need of a Savior, and would NOT be accepted by God based on his OWN good works?

Answer 10

Chuck Norris?