Ironically, many Christians (of the Protestant variety?) would be opposed to such a program) of tracking your sinlessness. The idea, as far as I understand it, is that you end up with a sort of meta-problem with Pride, where you’re so convinced of your method of eradicating sin that you fail to notice where you were incapable of seeing your sin in the first place.
With actualized divine intervention, the danger is obvious. You prevent the real work of the the Spirit’s intervention from fixing you. To paraphrase Lewis, you’re busy rearranging the rooms of your house where Jesus wants to come along and build you a new house.
There is probably a secular analogue here. The idea of Grace) is that you need not worry overmuch about your current failures, because you’re mindful that your optimal self is just so far removed from yourself in the long term. Failures at local optimization then are of such drastic difference in magnitude as failures at global optimization. Becoming too cozy in solving the faults you do see can damage your ability to find bigger faults.
It all depends whether the moral landscape is riddled with local maxima.
Ironically, many Christians (of the Protestant variety?) would be opposed to such a program) of tracking your sinlessness. The idea, as far as I understand it, is that you end up with a sort of meta-problem with Pride, where you’re so convinced of your method of eradicating sin that you fail to notice where you were incapable of seeing your sin in the first place.
With actualized divine intervention, the danger is obvious. You prevent the real work of the the Spirit’s intervention from fixing you. To paraphrase Lewis, you’re busy rearranging the rooms of your house where Jesus wants to come along and build you a new house.
There is probably a secular analogue here. The idea of Grace) is that you need not worry overmuch about your current failures, because you’re mindful that your optimal self is just so far removed from yourself in the long term. Failures at local optimization then are of such drastic difference in magnitude as failures at global optimization. Becoming too cozy in solving the faults you do see can damage your ability to find bigger faults.
It all depends whether the moral landscape is riddled with local maxima.