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I was talking to someone yesterday from church. They had mentioned that because I have a wicked sinful heart, that any and all external acts of benevolence to others was for nothing, and that I was still a terrible person at heart. The idea is that I am over compensating for being a terrible person by appearing to be nice. Essentially, his argument was that even though I had to be nice to him, I should never assume that the generosity will be recognized or awarded. This made me think, clearly me helping others is falling on deaf ears, which then makes me think why should I bother?

I was talking to someone yesterday from church. They had mentioned that because I have a wicked sinful heart, that any and all external acts of benevolence to others was for nothing, and that I was still a terrible person at heart. The idea is that I am over compensating for being a terrible person by appearing to be nice. Essentially, his argument was that even though I had to be nice to him, I should never assume that the generosity will be recognized or awarded. This made me think, clearly me helping others is falling on deaf ears, which then makes me think why should I bother?

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You know that's not true.

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The fact whether it's true or not is irrelevant. What's relevant is doing good deeds on Earth to those who are deserving - and saying that those who do good deeds but don't believe some particular variant of sky fairy are "lesser than" is stupidity at its finest.

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Objective truth is all that matters ultimately. Suppose the doctrine of original sin to be true and that your good deeds may benefit your fellow man but won't make you righteous in the sight of God or do anything towards obtaining his favor because He has set out another way for that...if that is true then your wishes and logic and assumptions and reasoning can't change that fact if it is indeed a fact, and why can't it be? Of course it can be.

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objective truth about something that you cannot know definitively if it exists

You cannot know for certain if a higher power exists, so there is no such thing as "objective truth" about it.