Reply To: Theological Conundrum (read at your own risk)

PAA – It cannot hold water within your view; such a person would only be doing it because the benefit of doing mitzvos outweighed the oinesh, not because he understood the inherent value. And therefore is no better a person than the one who keeps mitzvos and gets schar, and by extension, not better than someone who does aveiros, like you tained before.