not repented of their sin. They were in process of justifying it to themselves and to the church, trying to make it okay in the eyes of God by suggesting that God forgives everyone of everything, that in the light of the amazing grace of Jesus Christ repentance and turning from sin doesn’t matter.
The rationalizations go like this: “Salvation is all of grace, it’s all God’s work and none of mine,” which is true enough, of course. But the rationalizations go further: “Since God saved me from time immemorial, before I was born, and my salvation does not depend on anything I do or can do, then God doesn’t care what I do. It doesn’t make any difference to my salvation. So, I can do whatever I want.” Wrong! God does care what we do. He cares about what believers do and he cares about what unbelievers do. If he didn’t care, he wouldn’t impose His law on everyone or bring judgment on anyone. But he does! God’s law applies to all of humanity. And God will bring everyone into judgment before the bench of Jesus Christ.
The point is that apart from Jesus Christ there is no correct (objective, rational or perfect) morality, which means that only Christians can teach morality correctly (objectively, rationally, perfectly) by teaching biblical morality correctly. However, this does not mean that Christians are perfect. Perfection is like calculus, one approaches a definitive answer, and makes some valid assumptions and conclusions about it. And what is more, morality effects everyone. It’s not that Christian morality only effects Christians or that pagan morality only effects pagans. Rather, we are all interdependent, saved and lost. So, the wrong morality brings God’s curses upon everyone, just as the right morality brings God’s blessings upon