for the believer, and thus the self-condemnation that so often accompanies moral failure has no place in the believer’s spiritual experience (Rom. 8:1). A third element a Christian worldview provides for virtue is the most important. Christian faith takes our fallen nature very seriously, and it is not assumed that if you know the right thing to do that you will do it. In fact, the Bible asserts the converse of that—that often knowing the right thing to do makes it less likely, not more, that you
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