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The idea of Christianity is to kill this flawed group, but not physically kill them, to spiritually kill them. This is symbolized in baptism: the person is held under water and raised up out of the water as a new creature.

So inwardly this old creature is crucified along with Christ, and inwardly a new creature is ressurected with Him.

That is why Christians see themselves as distinct from the rest of the world, because we are literally a new species, we have been re-born inwardly.

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I for one am definitely more confused now.

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The basic idea is that mankind is flawed, ALL of mankind

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This is probably true , there's no such thing as perfect people, but I think you mean spiritually flawed here, right?

Cheers