My thought is the servant of god and others like him who come in and post are projecting. He says that he was a bad person who lied and stole all the time before he got saved, he was addicted to H, and presumably, finding Jesus was at least part of the reason he was able to recover. It's a hard thing to admit the bad things you've done, try to make amends, and try to do better in the future - if you actually do it, that is. The problem with sog's philosophy is that his excuse for his previous behavior is simply that he didn't have Jesus in his life. So, you see, it wasn't really his fault that he did bad things. Humans are completely helpless. Without Jesus to guide us, we would all devolve into anarcho-communist-cannibal-baby killers. He's accepted Jesus now, and Jesus says that all past wrongs are forgiven unconditionally so he is, therefore, a good person.
He has a problem, though - us. Here we sit, presumably normal and fairly decent people, yet we claim that we don't believe in his Jesus. Even worse, a large number of us actually DID believe in Jesus at some point, but we weren't all that impressed and left the faith. This must cause a massive level of cognitive dissonance. He can address this in a couple of ways. First, he could admit that maybe the whole 'saved' thing is subjective and different people get different levels of satisfaction from it. That's a dangerous road though, because once you start admitting that, the next step involves asking why your own subjective interpretation is better than anyone else's. Even worse, it may even mean that YOU, specifically, were a bad person who did bad things, rather than just foisting it off as a condition common to the entire human race.
The second option, and sadly the one that sog seems to be following, is to put your fingers in your ears and scream loudly that anyone who says that they had a different experience with Jesus is lying. We MUST be lying because the alternative is unthinkable. We REALLY DO believe in Jesus, but we're just pretending we do because we're petulant children. If we're not out kicking children and raping dogs, that's because we really do believe in Jesus and we're afraid of him. If we were christians once, but we became apostates, we MUST NOT have actually believed like he does because a TRUE CHRISTIANTM would never fall. No amount of counter-evidence will ever shake him, because what he believes SIMPLY MUST BE TRUE.
