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Allllrighty then! Well after reading a few other articles on this thread, I must say I'm amused, slightly shocked, and a little bewildered. I have to add as well, it's difficult to take seriously the articles of people who cannot properly spell simple one-syllable English words, or of people who use profanity repeatedly to make their point. But I digress. Having said that, I don't think this thread is about how many commandments one can name or whether or not Jesus is atonement for sin. For every 100 people reading these (or any) articles, there will be 100 or more different opinions. Religion and Biblical text are too subjective, or at least have become so, to be able to say, "this is the definitive answer and any other belief or response is wrong." And having said THAT, I offer the following:

I've lived on several different sides of this multi-faceted issue. I am not some hardened sinner who, in an adult life, used Christianity and being "born again" as a cop-out for my past transgressions. I came to Christ as a young child. All of the damage done by this sinner came later, much later, in life. I have faced nearly every temptation to commit wrong-doing that exists, with the exception of wanting to murder someone (well, let me think on that one), and I've failed miserably time and again. Have I failed because my Christianity, my claim to Christ or God, is fake or flawed? No. I've failed because I am exactly what man (and woman) has been since Adam and Eve...a sinner. I'm a human being with a sin nature.

Consider this analogy of water flowing uphill. It is not in the nature of water to flow uphill. Water finds its own level and water submits to the forces of gravity. Water cannot possibly flow uphill by its own free will because water was not created with that capability. The only way to make water flow uphill is to provide it with a force that will cause the water to defy gravity and move against its nature. And even as that water is being propelled uphill at its center, all around it, the very same water is flowing right back down. This is who we are as humans and sinners. No matter how hard we try we cannot, within ourselves, perform the impossible (perfection and sinlessness) because we were born with a sin nature and the complete inability to be anything but sinners. In order to even attempt the uphill climb, we must have another force that propels us. For me, this is God and my relationship with Him. And even in the midst of His hand guiding me against

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