Augustine said,''There are many who, according to a custom of this life, are called good people,-good men, good women , innocent, and observers as it were of what is commanded in the law; paying respect to their parents , abstaining from adultery, doing no murder, committing no theft, giving no false witness against any one, and observing all else that the law requires-yet are not Christians..... Pagans may say, then,We live well. If they enter not by the door, what good will that do them ?''. The answer is nothing,for although people from a human point of view may be considerate good,they are sinners,and they need a Saviour, who alone can forgive sin. Let us not be deceived into thinking that some people don't need to be saved,even those we would class as being good.We rightly say no one is perfect,but it also true that no one is sinless,and what do sinners need they need a Saviour, and Jesus is the only Saviour ,there is.
'Human goodness,does not mean human sinlessness'
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