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My name is Matthew. I try my best to serve the Lord as best I can. I also try to serve my fellow brother and sisters as best I can. Salvation is my goal for you.
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I don't know, I've just been thinking about this alot lately. Okay, you know how people always say that to go to Heaven you have to believe in God and be religious and such? Well, what about a person who is kind and selfless and is just a good person in general and is an athiest? Does that mean that they wouldn't go to Heaven even though they were a good person who did good for other people? Because if you think about it, not every person who is religious is good. Like the terrorists who flew the plane into the World Trade Center, causing the deaths of all those innocent people. They claimed that they were doing that for God and their religion. I mean, wouldn't it seem wrong for a person just to go to Heaven because they were religious even if they weren't a good person, and a person who was a really good person not going to Heaven because they weren't religious? I was just thinking about this and wondering if anybody had some answers, perhaps?
Hmm some of these answers here are pretty good. Allow me to make my opinion which I believe is based off of fact, since it is written in the Bible. Being a good or bad person does not determine who gets into Heaven or not. Faith in Jesus Christ is what determines it. Look at the man on the cross next to Jesus. He was a murderer and a thief and a rapist and many other things. Based on the good person/bad person idea this man is going to Hell. However, he told the other prisioner being cruxified that he (the man) deserved to be on the cross and not Jesus, and believed Jesus was God the Messiah. The he asked Jesus to remember him when Jesus enters heaven. Jesus promptly told him Today you will be with me in paradise. This man was forgiven and let into heaven for believing in God. Not what he did.
Second Jesus said "I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in Me, though he may die, he shall live." John 11:25
He also said "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me." John 14:6
These are just two of the passages amoung many.
Being a "good" person is not going to get you into Heaven. In God's eyes we are all sinners and all fall short of the glory of God. Our sin is the never ending ocean between us and God. Jesus is the only bridge to God. What he did on that cross took our sin away from us so long as we believe that Jesus Died for us on that cross, and was resurrected on the third day to show that life does exist after death. God is ready to accept all people over the whole earth, we just have to believe. Not just think that helping an old lady across the street is enough for God to go "Welcome aboard!"
Your sin has been paid for by Jesus. All you have to do is get the reciept from him.
*ADDED* If a person believes in God and does terrible things in his life then does he really believe in God? Believeing causes a change in someone, and someone who says "I believe in God" but then kills someone, is not someone who really does believe in God.
No matter how "good" someone is they still do something against God in their life. The very first sin you've ever done was enough to kick you out of Heaven. Heaven is perfect. Man-kind is nowhere near perfect. SO if you were 5 years old and lied to your parents, but then at age 16 decided to help thousands of people and did so, but did not believe in God, that lie you told when you were 5 was enough for Heaven to shut its doors on you. Thats why the Bible says all you have to do is believe in Jesus Christ and follow his call. Saying you believe and hurting someone intentionally later on is not really believeing.
(Rating: 5) So what you're saying is, people that accept Jesus as a savior and believe in God go to Heaven. So, a terrible person who has done terrible things is rewarded in Heaven just because they believe in God? And the morally good people who don't believe in God are punished after they die, just because of what they believe? And it says it that way in the Bible? yes, I know that helping an old lady across the street is only one good deed, but say a person saved thousands of other peoples` lives and did nothing but good their whole life and didn't believe in God, and a person who killed thousands of people and was a bad person but did believe in God. The good person would go to Hell and the bad person would go to Heaven? I thought that being good and bad had to do with at least some of it...