Do you call yourself a good person?

Question

Well the Bible says that there are none good but God. Have you lied, stolen, used God's name in vain, coveted, lusted, hated? These are just a few of God's moral laws, the Ten Commandments. It's appointed unto man once to die, then judgment. When you die God will judge you by His standard, the Ten Commandments. If you are guilty of breaking His laws, then you will owe a debt that you cannot pay, and you will be sent to Hell for an eternity. God provided a way for you to be Saved. Jesus Christ died on a cross and rose again to take the punishment and pay the debt for your sins. In order to take part in His forgiveness you must Repent, which means to ask forgiveness and turn away from your sinning ways, then put your total Trust in Jesus Christ. Only then will you be accepted into Heaven, not because your a good person, but because your a bad person who's been forgiven.

Answer 1

God is love; you are hate. Say something nice why fear who are you working for? SATAN

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Answer 2

You make a false a priori assumption at the beginning of your argument. You make the assumption that the Bible is divine. It isn't. Its a wonderful book of bronze age myths that have nothing to do with the historic Christian faith. It didn't even exist in its present canonized form until after the Council of Carthage -- hundreds of years AD.

The earth is not flat, it does not have corners, and it is not established on pillars. Beetles do not have four legs, they have six. Rabbits do not chew their cuds, they have none. Ai and Jericho were both abandoned when the Israelites came to them and Jericho NEVER was walled. Oddly, though a million Jews (more or less) marched around the wilderness for 40 years and ALL died there, we cannot find a single skeleton from the march, even though we have found the remains of tribes of 200 non-semites in the same area. Pi really DOES work, and a perfectly round pool cannot be made that uses a pi of 3.0 rather than 3.14 -- it would leak through a gap in the side.

The god of the old testament, almost certainly either a rendition of one of the great Annunaki of the Sumerians or of Ra of the Egyptians, is a monster who cannot possibly deserve worship, even if real. He accepts human sacrifice, demands genocides, and wipes the faces of his priests with dung. He is, in very real terms, anthropomorphic, having a palace on top of the firmament (the dome covering the earth) where he keeps snow and hail "against the time of troubles" (war???) [If you want to read up on this type of thing, there is a fair list on the site I maintain. Go to www.rebuff.org and read the three pages under bible on the left hand menu.]

The short version of what I am saying is -- its myth. Fairy stories, like Grimm's and like Santa Claus. Furthermore, Christianity, despite what you have been told, was not HISTORICALLY based on the Bible as you know it. The canon was not established universally in anything resembling a form you would recognize until the Council of Carthage, hundreds of years after Christ. The early church had 40 gospels, but no one church had more than one book or maybe a very few. Often a gospel, or a letter -- or sometimes nothing at all. Different bishops wrote different canons, just as they had different theologies (gnostic/anti-gnostic for example). The Council of Nice (Nicea) established the creed by vote, and many things (trinity) won by only one or two votes. Divine inspiration? Not unless you count assasination, quite a few occurred connected to Nice and to Carthage.

So we need a different definition of good -- good is when you care about others, when you take care of the poor and the sick and the destitute, when you are a good mate and a good friend and someone that others trust and call on when in need. By that definition, the only one that matters one whit to me -- yes I am a good person.

Regards,

Reynolds Jones
Schenectady, NY
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Answer 3

I believe that the only standard that God will judge me by is LOVE....and I have given a lot of love to many different folks of many different walks of life.

I am not perfect, I do not claim to be. But I claim to do the best with what I am. And I choose to love, and be love and show the ways of love....as I understand them to be.

And when I get to heaven, or wherever I end up when this life is done, it will be up to God and God alone to judge me

The last time I looked you were not God. So therefore, you must not pass judgement upon me. Doesn't it say in your Bible that you should pluck the splinter from your own eye before the dust mote in your neighbors?

Answer 4

Sweetie, I am not mearly a good person, I am an amazing person. I am a force of awesomeness to be reckoned with, respected, and worshipped. I am a tidal wave of wonderful that is crashing down your flimsey holier-then-thou gates. I am a creature of such supreme effuglent super-coolness that many might think me a myth. I am an heartless b*tch and a companion of compassion. I am both magical and delicious. I am great, wonderful, special, and beautiful. I am fallible, complex, complicated, and f*cked up with just as much passion, power, and promise as any who ever lived before or who will ever live since. I am very very shiny.

I'm also a hell of a wordsmith and a bit of an egotist.

Answer 5

INo Offense but I think you are a bit brain washed. I don't think God ever said any of this stuff. It is just human interpretation that has been tranlated a dozen times by the time you read it. Enjoy your life, do the best you can and don't worrry about God.

Answer 6

I believe that if you have kindness in your heart and you would give the shirt off you back for another then you are a good person. You must have good intentions in your heart. Being a good person means different things to different people. Spiritual or Reality.

Answer 7

I thought God was the only one allowed to Judge?



What in God's name do you think you're doing?? What is the matter with your kind? Did your mommy and dada do this to you. I am a very devout Christian and my parents told me only God judges. Not us.


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Answer 8

I consider myself a very good person. I attempt to treat everyone the way I would like to be treated. I can't say that about most. Most of the time, people are inconsiderate.

Answer 9

Yes I believe I am a good person. and if there is a god judging me then I'll sure as hell be judging him on the mess he created here.

Answer 10

i call myself a decent person. as far as God, Christ, and the buy-bull go, i just toss that book out the window in spite. mostly, i just try to be me. thus, i am beyond good and evil.

Answer 11

Of course I call myself a good person but like many things it is a matter of perspective.