Christ's purpose is to replace death with life.

He said, "I solemnly assure you, the man who hears my word and has faith in him who sent me possesses eternal life. He does not come under condemnation, but has passed from death to life" (John 5:24). He said God's commandments mean eternal life (John 12:50). And he said, "He who believes has eternal life" (John 6:47).

This tells us what Christ's words mean and how to interpret them, because there is much evidence for what creates death and what creates life. Basically, sin creates death and morality creates life. We can observe the evidence for this in life, after Christ directed us to it.

The number one dispute in Christianity is whether people can really overcome sin or whether God just zaps people into heaven. Before considering that question, sin is still sin regardless of what God does about it. And this fact is what answers the question. The zappers deny that sin is sin, and this proves them wrong about life. They are an in-your-face bunch who promote sin and shamelessly call it virtue.

The truth about sin is not dependent upon someone's opinions; it can be mathematically defined. If something destroys life, it is sin. Math and science can define what destroys life.

Then there is the question of whether the zapping removes the sin. In the narrowly defined framework of being "born again," it supposedly does. Born-agains supposedly do the infallible work of the Holy Spirit. Yet their personal standards are no better than before, and they add the sin of sacrilege claiming their corruptions are the work of the Holy Spirit. These facts are mathematically and scientifically provable, not to mention the obvious evidence. Several of the supposed born-agains have been convicted of swindling the public. Many of them have had to admit they were wrong about things. In other words, there is no credibility to the claim that being born again purified them.

The truth is that repentance is the start of a process, not the end of something. Christ described the rest of the process as a "path to life" (Mat 7:14). The essence of the path is the golden rule, which sums up the law and the prophets, which says "Treat others the way you would have them treat you" (Mat 7:12). And Christ said to treat enemies the same as friends (Mat 5:43-48). The reason for this is to be "made perfect as your heavenly Father is perfect." This is a human responsiblity—to be made perfect by loving enemies—not a result of being zapped.

In other words, there is no excuse for sin. All corrupt versions of Christianity attempt to rationalize sin, but it doesn't rationalize.

Sometimes there is an argument over the meaning of sin, but it's not a credible argument. Creating life and destroying life is such a total concern of everyone that there could not be any other realistic meaning for morality.

However, an indirect argument is made through purposes. Rationalizers tend to reduce the purpose of Christianity to pleasing God. Then an offshoot of that argument is that sin is defying God. This argument is bolstered by the circular logic that God's is perfect, and therefore his will is the definition of morality. This type of logic is not valid, because there is no way to define God's perfection without an external reference for morality. The proof of this is that no difference can be distinguished between satan and God when using such criteria. If carrying out satan's wishes is perfection, then satan becomes God.

This is exactly why it is such a corruption to define morality in terms of God's will. Persons who do that perpetrate any amount of sin for satan and call it God's will. It isn't possible to determine God's will without objective criteria for sin and morality. And this shows exactly why corrupters define morality as God's will. They erase the truth about their corruptions by removing objective criteria for morality.

But this whole argument is a fraud, because people live, die and fight over their personal relationships regardless of abstract definitions. The real concerns have to be aligned upon the real results in life. It is the results which determine what morality is.

It's necessary to know morality before it's possible to know God. There is no way to know God first, because there is nothing humans know about God apart from morality. What is knowing God's will? Is it clairvoyance? Does God speak to some persons? Some persons say so; but they can only hear satan. There is no way to tell God from satan apart from morality; and for this reason, God wouldn't think of using the same procedures satan uses. If someone thinks God is telling them something, it is satan the trickster.

God speaks through the lessons of life, and Christ spoke through the lessons of life. Christ said to look at the evidence as the basis of honest judgment (Luke 12:57). Only the evidence will tell the difference between God and satan.

Material life was created for this purpose. It shows what sin and morality are through the lessons of life. Naysayers go ballistic over this statement, saying prove it, prove it, chapter and verse. The proof is everywhere, in the Bible and life, because God does not use material life for any other purpose than overcoming sin, and there has never been any other constructive purpose even suggested. The only purpose in life which Christ described was overcoming sin.

The rationalizers of sin resort to fluid terms like love, faith and a personal savior, claiming their corruptions are virtues. This is why material life was needed to overcome sin. Along with all sin are the lies which turn right into wrong and wrong into right. Matter stabilizes the realities showing the truth.

Christ taught morality through the lessons of life for this reason. Constructive human behavior replaces the falsehoods with objective reality. This means that love and faith are not lying opinions, they are constructive acts. When Christ said to love enemies, it means results must be the same for enemies and friends, not just empty words concealing sin.

Christ said the saved are separated from the unsaved on the basis of who fed the hungry, healed the sick, etc. (Mat 25:31-46), because constructive behavior is required as the test and correction of morality. It can't be an etheric pretense with no relationship to behavior.