This seems like a nice and pleasant idea, the inner child. But it discounts the fact that we are born in sin and prone to do evil. Not doing evil requires God’s grace, we cannot look within ourselves to find good.
Proof of this is simple, find a toddler who has not been taught to be selfish, they will be selfish with their toys
a common view from well meaning Christians (Reformed) is something called loser theology, where they seem to think that God commands you to be a loser, I think that this is a major hold back for what is the closest true view of Christianity. If you hold that view, you hold back people from their true potential thus violating God’s commands. You aren’t fruitful. Outside of this point, I think reformed theology hits the nail on the head. Our debt from sin, the covering of sin through Jesus, the sobriety and reality of our situation outside of faith in Jesus etc.
This seems like a nice and pleasant idea, the inner child. But it discounts the fact that we are born in sin and prone to do evil. Not doing evil requires God’s grace, we cannot look within ourselves to find good.
Proof of this is simple, find a toddler who has not been taught to be selfish, they will be selfish with their toys
a common view from well meaning Christians (Reformed) is something called loser theology, where they seem to think that God commands you to be a loser, I think that this is a major hold back for what is the closest true view of Christianity. If you hold that view, you hold back people from their true potential thus violating God’s commands. You aren’t fruitful. Outside of this point, I think reformed theology hits the nail on the head. Our debt from sin, the covering of sin through Jesus, the sobriety and reality of our situation outside of faith in Jesus etc.