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Are You A Good Person?
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If there is a Heaven, do you think you are good enough to go there? To answer this question, try taking this test to see if you are a good person: (I know that I'm not.)
1. Have you ever told a lie?("white" lies are still lies.) What do you call someone who tells lies and are you one?
2. Have you ever stolen anything? (Even when you were a kid.) What do you call someone who steals and are you one?
3. Have you ever looked someone with lust? Jesus said, "Whoever looks at a woman to lust after her has committed adultery with her in his heart." (Matthew 5:28)
4. Have you ever you used God's name to curse? That's called blasphemy. "The Lord will not hold anyone guiltless who misuses his name." (Exodus 20:7)
This is only four of the ten commandments. So IF God were to judge you based on the ten commandments, would you be innocent or guilty? Heaven or Hell? If you have failed any or all of these commandments, than you are not a good person by God's standard.
Now the common response is: "Okay, so I'm not perfect." or "I haven't killed anybody."
But remember the standard is God's perfect law, not other people. God only considers good to be moral perfection! Which none of us are and therefore the whole world is guilty before him!
*The Bad News: We all have sinned (violated God's law: such as lying, stealing, and so on.) and fall short to the glory of God (Romans 3:23). God can not tolerate sin and will punish for it because of his holiness and justice (Isaiah 13:11). Which means that there is no one who is good, but God alone, and the wages of sin is death(Hell). (Romans 3:10-18, Romans 6:23)
Don't worry there is hope!
*The Good News: The good news is that God loved us so much that he sent his son to take the punishment for our sins, so who that whoever believes in him should not go to hell but have everlasting life (John 3:16, with emphasis). All you need to is repent from your sins and place your faith in Jesus Christ. The moment you do that you will be forgiven from your sins and know and will be granted everlasting life into heaven. (Romans 10:13)
Now, the final question is: Will you place your faith/trust in the Lord Jesus Christ and repent from your sins today and accept the free gift of eternal life?
1. Have you ever told a lie?("white" lies are still lies.) What do you call someone who tells lies and are you one?
2. Have you ever stolen anything? (Even when you were a kid.) What do you call someone who steals and are you one?
3. Have you ever looked someone with lust? Jesus said, "Whoever looks at a woman to lust after her has committed adultery with her in his heart." (Matthew 5:28)
4. Have you ever you used God's name to curse? That's called blasphemy. "The Lord will not hold anyone guiltless who misuses his name." (Exodus 20:7)
This is only four of the ten commandments. So IF God were to judge you based on the ten commandments, would you be innocent or guilty? Heaven or Hell? If you have failed any or all of these commandments, than you are not a good person by God's standard.
Now the common response is: "Okay, so I'm not perfect." or "I haven't killed anybody."
But remember the standard is God's perfect law, not other people. God only considers good to be moral perfection! Which none of us are and therefore the whole world is guilty before him!
*The Bad News: We all have sinned (violated God's law: such as lying, stealing, and so on.) and fall short to the glory of God (Romans 3:23). God can not tolerate sin and will punish for it because of his holiness and justice (Isaiah 13:11). Which means that there is no one who is good, but God alone, and the wages of sin is death(Hell). (Romans 3:10-18, Romans 6:23)
Don't worry there is hope!
*The Good News: The good news is that God loved us so much that he sent his son to take the punishment for our sins, so who that whoever believes in him should not go to hell but have everlasting life (John 3:16, with emphasis). All you need to is repent from your sins and place your faith in Jesus Christ. The moment you do that you will be forgiven from your sins and know and will be granted everlasting life into heaven. (Romans 10:13)
Now, the final question is: Will you place your faith/trust in the Lord Jesus Christ and repent from your sins today and accept the free gift of eternal life?
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I am sorry, but when you are gone, you're gone (not seem any evidence to the contrary), aren't there sites where you could debate this with like-minded individuals? (PS - would still prefer my free pen, you know where you are with a pen.) Also, does your statement mean I can do what I like, then say 'whoops, made a mistake' and still 'get in'? (if you are in to the whole heaven thing - just seems a bit easy.)
This is Ray Comfort's Good Person test, as asinine a test as Ray himself.
It starts from the basis that God is real, as is sin and eternal punishment. Until those facts are established, the rest is meaningless.
It has other problems. Comfort asserts that Hell is the legitimate punishment for all sins, meaning that if you look at a person and fantasize about having relations with them, you are as guilty of a crime of precisely the same significance and punishment as genocide; there is no distinction, which can hardly be said to be 'just' (unless you redefine the word, of course - many Christians will say argue because God is perfectly good, anything he decrees is perfectly good too, such as the Amalekites).
The idea that a white lie is still a lie may be literally true, but the test sees no distinction between a terrorist telling the cops a device is in one place when it's elsewhere, (Godwin alert) someone lying to the Nazis that there's no Jews hiding in their attic or someone lying about how nice someone's food is at a dinner party to protect their feelings.
By the way, if someone that tells one lie is to be called a liar, someone who tells one truth must ergo be called truthful.
It frightens me that anyone might regard this as even vaguely convincing.
It starts from the basis that God is real, as is sin and eternal punishment. Until those facts are established, the rest is meaningless.
It has other problems. Comfort asserts that Hell is the legitimate punishment for all sins, meaning that if you look at a person and fantasize about having relations with them, you are as guilty of a crime of precisely the same significance and punishment as genocide; there is no distinction, which can hardly be said to be 'just' (unless you redefine the word, of course - many Christians will say argue because God is perfectly good, anything he decrees is perfectly good too, such as the Amalekites).
The idea that a white lie is still a lie may be literally true, but the test sees no distinction between a terrorist telling the cops a device is in one place when it's elsewhere, (Godwin alert) someone lying to the Nazis that there's no Jews hiding in their attic or someone lying about how nice someone's food is at a dinner party to protect their feelings.
By the way, if someone that tells one lie is to be called a liar, someone who tells one truth must ergo be called truthful.
It frightens me that anyone might regard this as even vaguely convincing.
