Stephen T-B

Missed a great chunk of this thread on account of being away thanks to our society�s celebration of the fact that Jesus Christ died on a cross on Friday evening and arose from the dead early on Sunday morning yet miraculously �...was crucified, dead and buried and on the THIRD DAY rose again.�
Geo Theo�s OP suggested - as it seems to me - that if we think we�re OK and the world isn�t all bad and that therefore neither we nor the world need Christ�s redemptive love, then we are deluding ourselves.

The Christian alternative is to acknowledge our wretchedness and rely on Christ�s redemptive love to rescue us from it.
It could be argued, couldn�t it, that the element of self-delusion is as strong there as it is in the atheist�s position?
What the Christians do, of course, is to give it another name.
They call it Faith.