If
heaven existed, do you think that you should be allowed entrance
based upon how good you are? Most atheists for example are adamant that
they are good people. They have to believe that because their mantra is, "I don't need God to be a good person." But don't we have to ask, according to what
standard should we measure ourselves to make our evaluation accurate?
For example:
. How
many lies have you told in your life? The average person tells at
least five lies per day. What do you call someone who has told
countless lies?
. Have
you ever stolen something in your life? Have you taken something that
doesn't belong to you? What do you call someone who steals?
. Have
you ever used God's name in vain, or without respect? That's called
blasphemy. What do you call someone who uses God's name lightly or in
cursing?
. Jesus
said, if you look at another person with lust in your heart,
imagining having sex with that person, you are guilty of committing
adultery. What do you call people who commits adultery?
Our
Creator says that He is the standard by which we measure our level of
goodness. Not Gandhi, no Hitler, not your neighbour and not yourself.
By
your own admission you're a lying, thieving, blaspheming, adulterous
person in your own heart, and that's only reviewing four of the ten
commandments. How then can you consider yourself to be a good person,
good enough to be allowed into the presence of a perfectly Holy
Creator God?
A
good Judge must see that justice is done, that wrong is punished and
that those on the side of wrong are removed from those who long and
choose to do right. Because the price for your sins were paid for by
Jesus (God the Son), God the Father who is perfectly Just can legally
dismiss your penalty.
Jesus
said, “The price of sin, the wages of sin, the consequences of sin
is eternal separation from God and everything and anything that is
good. We call that separation “Hell.”
Because
that reality is so horrific God put in place a plan, whereby the
penalty of sin would be paid at His own expense. Jesus paid the price
for you sins and He said that if you would seek His forgiveness and
obey Him out of gratitude for His enormous love, you can avoid hell
and spend eternity in heaven with Him.
What
kind of a person would ignore and/or reject that kind of offer?
