The Church has insisted on doctrinal orthodoxy of its members, but not on moral rectitude to the extent of tolerating the greatest
iniquities of communal holocaust in
human history perpetrated by its members.
i do believe in what Christ taught and just because I do not follow it all the time does not make me a non believer, it makes me a sinner saved by grace and a imperfect
human being, that is why we all have to die, because we are all born in sin and shaped in
iniquity.
The Christian analysis of
human experience as exemplifying a «mystery of
iniquity,» or a ubiquitous «missing» of the experience we most deeply seek and need, means that the explication of Christ's transforming effect upon humanity will not involve merely a perfecting of our intrinsic capabilities, but an overcoming of
human hostility to God's aims, a healing of
human deformation consequent to that hostility, and a reuniting of humanity with the God from whom we are estranged.