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Posted on: July 9, 2023 at 08:30:31 CT
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You're basically saying you "earn" your way to heaven by scoring so many "good person" points by deeds that you do? Or you "earn" your way to hell by scoring so many bad person points? And I guess according to your logic, there is an arbiter in the sky who is in charge of totaling up everyone's points and deciding if your final grade allows you in to one place or the other?
Does that all even make sense?
The standard by which you enter into heaven is perfection. And of course, no one reaches that standard. Only the perfect Son of God reaches that standard - and he showed his love for all of mankind by coming to this earth in human form - teaching us for 3 years about Himself - and then willingly paying the price for all of our sins by sacrificing Himself on that cross - so that his red blood would cover up our black sin - and present us white as snow to the Father - if we only confessed our sins and put our faith in Him.
Jesus "earned" our way into heaven - he did it for us - he did the heavy lifting - the easy part for us is to put our faith in Him. Pretty awesome.
And if you decide, with your own free will, not to accept Jesus as your Savior, you condemn yourself to hell - Jesus has his hand out to accept you into heaven. If you blame Jesus, you are playing the victim card and blaming your eternity in hell on Jesus - when you did it of your own free will.