Okay, I need your theological minds, here is a passage on “True faith.”  

Is it? 

“True religion is NOT something we accept merely because an authority tells us to. 

It must be something we personally see as true and good through our own awakened conscience and moral insight. Otherwise, our obedience is empty imitation, not genuine faith. 

Jesus appeals to the “pure heart” and the awakened conscience in each person. 

If we follow religious rules only because they are imposed, certified, or stamped with authority, then our obedience is not truly moral or spiritual.

A rule that does not prove itself inwardly as holy, good, and binding on the conscience cannot really command the soul. If a rule is accepted only because:

• “God said so,”

• “The Church says so,”

• “This book says so,”

…but we do not inwardly see it as right, holy, and binding, then:

• it is not truly a moral rule,

• it becomes only a policy, a strategy, or a self-interested calculation,

• and our obedience is only mimetic (imitative), not ethical.

We are copying behavior, not responding from conscience.

If Christ alone could truly see moral and spiritual truth, and everyone else was blind, then Christianity would become absurd — like teaching blind people to imitate the movements of someone who can see. 

That would turn religion into:

• external mimicry,

• empty performance,

• “posture-making of the soul,”

not genuine spiritual life.

Every person must have some direct capacity to recognize truth and goodness — otherwise religion collapses into hypocrisy and meaningless ritual.

Jesus did not come to replace human conscience, but to awaken and guide it.

Religious truth must be inwardly recognizable as good, holy, and binding — or it is not truly religious.

Obedience without inward moral vision is not virtue, but imitation.

A faith that only one person can truly “see” is no faith at all — it reduces everyone else to puppets.

Therefore, Christianity appeals to what is deepest and clearest in the human soul — conscience, moral insight, and the love of goodness itself.

True Christianity must be personally seen and recognized as good and authoritative by the conscience of each believer; otherwise, it becomes 

empty imitation, 

blind obedience, 

and spiritual hypocrisy 

rather than living faith.

Obedience that is not grounded in inner conviction is not moral obedience at all — it’s imitation.

So if someone follows a religious rule 

only because it’s said to be authoritative, 

without ever grasping its moral worth, 

that person is spiritually impoverished — even if their behavior looks pious. 

Genuine religious faith must be personally recognized by conscience and moral insight, rather than accepted purely on the basis of authority or tradition.”

What do you think?