Originally Posted by jaguartx
He doesnt want the devil to win and get you and subject you to the misery all of us deserve.

That's a bad attitude. It is not for you to judge what misery you deserve. It is true that we cannot be saved by our own merit and we are charged with doing the best we can to follow God's laws. We are bound to fail and God knows this and is of infinite mercy. We are his children after all. Effort counts, bigly! End of sermon. I generally hate sermons.

The key elements in human thinking are not numbers but labels of fuzzy sets. -- L. Zadeh

Which explains a lot.