A couple of points massorite. Most of my life I lived as a traditional Christian in my dysfunctional family. None of us went to church but the matriarchs hung scriptures on the walls. About the only time we prayed together, or at all, was at holiday meals. I think God accepts those prayers of thanksgiving. Like you said God hears all prayers. My thoughts anyway.
I am like you, I would not invoke the name of Christ or ask God for anything unless I were living for Him. My second wife didn't view it like that. Trying to reconcile our different views of God, eventually led us both back into His arms.
Regarding the OP, it is mostly how we view ourselves. I said in an earlier post that God view things across time and space because He can. Scripture suggests that we speak and think just like Him. So, in God's viewpoint we are not sinners. Shouldn't that be our viewpoint also?
I am like you, I would not invoke the name of Christ or ask God for anything unless I were living for Him. My second wife didn't view it like that. Trying to reconcile our different views of God, eventually led us both back into His arms.
Regarding the OP, it is mostly how we view ourselves. I said in an earlier post that God view things across time and space because He can. Scripture suggests that we speak and think just like Him. So, in God's viewpoint we are not sinners. Shouldn't that be our viewpoint also?
Job 1:5 And it was so, when the days of their feasting were gone about, that Job sent and sanctified them, and rose up early in the morning, and offered burnt offerings according to the number of them all: for Job said, It may be that my sons have sinned, and cursed God in their hearts. Thus did Job continually.
You are right about how God views us. When God looks upon us He see's nothing but the shed blood of Christ. Therefore He see's our righteous because of the shed blood of Christ.
I don't look down on myself because I am a sinner because I know that I am a child of God who is always under construction.
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