Good Take

  https://x.com/attorneyf_/status/2032734499948130665?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

 

"A Christian can say, “Christianity is perfect, Christians aren’t,” and rest easy, cos the standard of the faith is Christ Himself; who, notably, is also regarded as sinless even within Islamic theology. In that sense, the entire claim of Christianity stands or falls on a person whose moral perfection is central to the story. God anchored the faith in Christ rather than in some abstract or imagined ideal. On what comparable basis can a Muslim say Islam is perfect? The model of the faith is Muhammad, whose life includes actions that are morally troubling; marrying a 6 year old, marrying his adopted son’s former wife (who was also his cousin), participating in violent campaigns, and taking captives as concubines. If the perfection of a religion is tied to the life of its exemplar, that contrast raises serious questions about the standard being held up. So perhaps someone will say the perfection of Islam lies not in the life of its founder but in the ideal itself; submission to the one God. But what exactly is perfect about that ideal? The claim, at its core, is that God is one, He is great, and therefore human beings must submit. But submission by itself carries no intrinsic moral beauty; power can demand submission whether it is righteous or not. By contrast, the Christian ideal is not merely that God is one and must be obeyed, but that God loved the world and acted within history to redeem it. The center of Christianity is not a command to submit but a story of self-giving love: the Father sending His sinless Son to bear the weight of human sin so that those who were estranged might be reconciled and even adopted as sons and daughters. In that vision, the highest reality is not simply divine power but divine love, and obedience flows from gratitude rather than mere obligation. This is what perfect theology looks like. "