If we have concluded (perhaps from reading the IV Gospel) that it is true that Jesus came to save sinners; then Christianity is neither a doing nor an achieving religion - and being a Christian is not about self-transformation during this, our mortal life.
All of these attainments are mostly about our character and circumstances - and as such they are contingent and selective...
Whereas Jesus Christ's offer to Men was not to the best and luckiest - but for people of essentially all characters and circumstances.
Indeed, Christianity is not even about what we want...
Instead, being a Christian is about what it is we want-to-want!
To clarify; we may, here-and-now, not-especially want salvation to eternal Heavenly life - at least, we may not currently want it more than we want some-thing else...
But we Do, absolutely, need to want-to-want to follow Jesus Christ to eternal Heavenly life more than we want anything else.
The Good News is that want-to-want is the actual, essential, and sufficient basis of being-a-Christian and attaining salvation - and this is a thing attainable by Men of any character and all circumstances.
Comment from Otto: Paul Graham (and Schopenhauer before him), is way ahead of you, eliminating the possibility: What You (Want To)^* Want - https://paulgraham.com/want.html.
ReplyDelete@Otto - Ii is not clear but guess you are being sarcastic about this article, which is (strictly) self-refuting nonsense - albeit disguised as wit!
By his (mostly unstated) metaphysical assumptions, the author has painted himself into a corner from which his assumptions prevent any possibility of escape.
The answer for him would be to describe, acknowledge, and examine these assumptions. To Do Metaphysics - in other words.