What if two people made the same decisions in life, one guided by the rewards/punishment of God, and the other by the earthly rewards/punishment of man. And assume both people make the same decisions....is the man who acting because of his belief in God any more moral or righteous than the other?
I do not see anything that make a decision made because of a fear of God any different than that same decision made for non-religious reasons.
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It's a good question.
What I think you are leaving out of your equation is seeing one's attitude towards God as a moral issue. It's like saying, "So, a child molestor drives the speed limit, and a non-child-molestor drives the speed limit -- but you're telling me the first guy's a bad guy anyway?"
Jesus was asked what the greatest moral imperative in the universe is. He said that it is to love God with all one's being. That trumps everything else. Everything either flows from that stance, or is tainted by its absence.
Dan
Dan