Why are Christians held to a higher standard?

[seagal]

I didn’t ask if you felt yourself better than other people. I asked if you felt that following Jesus made you a better person than if you had not followed Him. There’s no need to compare yourself to anyone else. Does it make you better?

On the assumption that it does (you’d hardly follow someone who made you a worse person), then, as I said earlier…

‘…to become a good Christian, you impose those standards on yourself and try to hold yourself to them.’

I suppose that’s one way of looking at it. Similar to someone who takes on a diet or fitness regimen in order to make themselves more healthy.

I was originally responding to this part of your statement “being a Christian meant in itself that you were expected to attain a higher standard than those who are not Christian” which sounded to me like you were saying a person would follow Christ in order to be better than “the other guy”. I am a Christian to become a better person than I am now, not to become better than someone else. If that’s not what you meant then I apologize.

 

[Bradski]

Hey, no worries, Seagal. We all need to find a way to improve. Christianity seems to work with most people.