total states. This requires a radical reorientation in thinking about the Christian life. It destroys our usual notions of moral progress. The point is that we can be saved only by listening to and believing God and God’s judgment. We can be saved only by faith in what God says about us and our final destiny. Viewed coram deo (before God), our virtues are no better than our vices. The difference is only a matter of taste. Some like vice and some like virtue; both do what they like. And virtue may