Good People Go
Andy Stanley, Since Nobody's Perfect... How Good is Good Enough?
"...the "good people go" view has several hurdles to clear. The first is that there is no universal consensus on what is right and wrong. The second follows from the first. Assume for a moment that you do know, and agree with, a definition of right and wrong. Assume you know in divinely certain terms what consititutes good. Even if that were the case, you are still left with the quandary of how you are to be graded and where you stand at any given time. When you die, do you get to go to heaven if your good deeds constitute 70 percent of your overall deeds? Or does 51 percent earn you a passing grade?"
And yet, even without answers to such questions, Good People Go is the general consensus of the majority who believe there is some kind of desirable afterlife. Go figure.
Grace makes much better sense.
posted by Roy B. @ 4:05 AM
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That's such a great point. Did you see the video clip that the media guy put together for the sermon about Heaven? There were interviews with several people asking what will happen when they die. Just as this article asserts, most thing they'll go to heaven b/c they are good or hell b/c they aren't. The one that fascinated me the most was the guy that said "I don't care. I'm an atheist. I don't care." I kind of found that hard to believe, and didn't see the connection. But I guess it depends on the definition of an atheist: one who believes there is NO God, or one who does not care if there is a God. I thought he was trying a little too hard not to care.
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