The statement opposite is one I presented for responses recently in the market, before the last lockdown happened for Covid.
“Only bad* people go to heaven.” (*conditions apply)
Most people who voted thought there was ‘no heaven’.
The second group said a ‘No’ to the statement.
A few of us voted for the statement being true.
What do you think?
Any idea why I went for that seemingly weird answer?
The ‘*conditions apply’ is the key…
If we see ourselves as created human beings owing our very life to the Creator God, then some things follow. If we also consider how we have rebelled against him, ignored him, bad-mouthed him, then you may see where the ‘bad’ people part of it comes.
As well, Jesus said,
“It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. [13] … For I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners.”
Matthew 9:12 (NIV) (http://www.laridian.com)
The patients who see themselves as being sick are the ones who go to the doctor. Those who think of themselves as being well, don’t, even though they really are sick. It parallels our perception of our actual spiritual state before God.
Forgiveness is the key to open the door to God’s heaven
In the same way, people who see themselves as needing God’s forgiveness, which is exactly what Jesus offers in full, are the ones who can go to heaven!
The Bible’s heaven promises to be wonderful, while Hell terrible. You could almost say that those who actually deeply love God go there, while those who don’t, find the other by default…
“What no eye has seen, what no ear has heard,
and what no human mind has conceived”— the things God has prepared for those who love him—
1 Corinthians 2:9 (NIV) (http://www.laridian.com)
What do you think?
