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.