Once you are enlightened in Christ, your newly created nature desires Christ too, so it is a rather fittting one, imho.
Wrong, the context we were talking about was the ones you claimed deserve hell while being unable to be corrected.
If you are
unable to be corrected and cannot do anything else - why would you deserve punishment?
Paul, in Romans, says it is because we 'know' it is wrong.
Very good, if you know its wrong and then do it anyway, you deserve it, that is why the law was given so we could know what we did was wrong, which is what condemns us.
Christ said untill He had spoken to them, they had no sin. In other words untill they
knew the truth, they weren't held accountable for it. But once they knew, they became accountable - they have to come to Him.
What reason would there be to correct anyone who was uncorrectable?
We simply do not know all the reasons it is wrong to God. We know what it is wrong for us. He also goes a great deal into the 'law' that reveals a thing to be wrong. A sign that says "stay off the lawn" might not give you the 'reason why it is wrong' but it at least tells you as a fact, it is.
Ok, but if you get on it when you know better,
then is when you would deserve punishment.
Similarly, without God's Spirit cannot know 'why' it is wrong or against God, but this doesn't mean he/she is free to do as he/she pleases without consequences. Paul continues to say, such a sin, even without knowing all the infraction seriousness nor all the parties involved in the infraction; sin is still a known infraction by our own fallen/broken conscience. We at least knew their was a sign not to do it.
Why doesn't always have to be known, just knowing its wrong is enough.
Why would God correct the uncorrectable?
Again, the intervention was needed to change the behavior. I still have to pay for ruining bushes. Only a forgiven debt would prevent that responsibility. "Deserved" is a difficult concept when discussing these matters but the consequences of sin, are indeed death.
One doesn't deserve punishment when they do not know something is wrong.
Yep, on the same page here. It required God's intervention.
Forgiveness for ruining bushes is great, but I still owe for the ones ruined unless someone else pays that debt. Sin has a terrible debt.
Same way I have to pay for those bushes. Maybe I didn't deserve the spanking, but I still have to face the other consequences of 'my' wrongful actions. It doesn't matter if I know or knew they were wrong or not. I'm legally guilty.
I agree and Christ paid it for everyone. Unfortunately some do not want that payment and reject it. We do not go to hell to pay for our sins, we go for rejecting the payment.
Does the law as we know it hold someone demonstrably mentally ill/brain damaged accountable to be
punished? No.
Because they did not know what they were doing was wrong. If one has no will to choose right or wrong, then how can they be held accountable, (remember God says each will give an account) or deserve punishment? To deserve it, you have to know its wrong. If you know its wrong, then you can know the opposite.
Again, the cross. Every human being has several indicators that sin is sin. One is their broken imago deo. They do not understand it as relating to God, but they do realize a sense of 'right/wrong.' Another is social, as a society, they understand and learn in such a context, somethings hurt others and should not be done. Another is from seeing and observing the way God made other things in the world, where inferences can be made and drawn (Romans 1). Many also hear scriptures. Jesus Himself said rocks would cry out if need be. Romans 1:20
You just argued against your own position.