Re (3): doubting doubt

I've just returned from work and I reread Eric's post and your reply and my brain is in a whirl.
Now I've started thinking about Virtue being the result of habitual choice and wondering why, as Karen asked, some people choose to believe in and seek Goodness and opt for God and others don't. Then I started reflecting about "Original Sin" and "Grace", but neither of those concepts seem...."just"...somehow.
I guess it's just another one of those unanswerable/multi-answerable mysteries which make us uncomfortable.

BTW, on the topic of Original Sin...
I don't want to get off on a tangent, but something has always puzzled me that I hope someone who knows Christianity better than I know it can help me figure out.
I love children and, in fact, have worked with them for over thirty years. To be quite honest, I've never really thought of them as being pure and innocent. Actually, I'm horrified when I see how aggressive, pitiless, egocentric, jealous, vindicative, untruthful and willful "normal" kids can be. But, yet, Jesus says, "Suffer little children and forbid them not,to come unto me: for of such is the Kingdom of Heaven" and "Except ye become as little children, ye cannot enter into the Kingdom of Heaven."

Huh? If people in Heaven are acting like little children, it makes me not want to go there!
I've always supposed Jesus meant "trusting" the Father or something like that, especially when we are in situations in which we don't have the intellectual capacity to understand...
But still...I wonder...would He have thought differently if he were a family man?
This is one of the reasons I have problems with the Bible, although I try to read it sometimes. There can be so many interpretations, depending upon who we are...you know?
It always comes back to us, doesn't it?
Also, Karen, at least the murderer you met rationalized his deed. That at least implies he had a conscience to some degree. BTK seemed totally amoral....
except for that glass of water...dare I say, in that instance, he was indeed "virtuous?"

Thanks for your replies.

• Re(4): doubting doubt - By Sara July 17, 2005 at 07:27:22 AM
  • Re(5): doubting doubt - By Eric July 29, 2005 at 04:35:35 PM
• Re(3): doubting doubt - By Sara July 15, 2005 at 09:30:09 AM