The road to hell is paved with good intentions.
2006-06-28 05:02:34 · 17 answers · asked by ? 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Yeah I do. If you think about it, it does make sense. People have good intentions. They have every intention of going to church, but never do (Just an example).
2006-06-28 05:22:26 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Not literally, but it does make some sense. There are a lot of things people do thinking it's good or done for good when it's really not. It' hard to explain, but I guess I'd have to say I agree about 30-40%. The road to hell is simply paved with everything that isn't Christ.
2006-06-28 12:05:38 · answer #2 · answered by mywifeisbetterthanyours 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Good intentions and works ONLY will end up in hell, yes. the only thing that will enable on to enter into heaven is the love and grace that Jesus Christ showed when He died for that everyone.
John 14:6 (NLT)
Jesus told him, "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one can come to the Father except through me.
2006-06-28 12:18:31 · answer #3 · answered by eefen 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Personally I am agnostic. However, if I did believe in heaven or hell......I would say no. Usually good intentions do not lead you in a bad direction. I would think it would be the opposite.
2006-06-28 12:06:40 · answer #4 · answered by geni 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In some ways, yes, in others, no. Yes because some "good intentions" only lead you down the wrong path and cause you to sin. No because if they are truly good intentions they won't lead you down the wrong path.
2006-06-28 12:07:11 · answer #5 · answered by mrsdokter 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
kinda, because your good intentions may not be the greatest intentions! or make good intentions and don't follow through with them.... It makes a lot of sense...
2006-06-28 12:35:07 · answer #6 · answered by Fatty McButterpants 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, and I think that applies to the teaching that "good deeds alone does not get you into Heaven"
Ephesians 2
8For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God— 9not by works, so that no one can boast. 10For we are God's workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.
Acts 4
8Then Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, said to them: "Rulers and elders of the people! 9If we are being called to account today for an act of kindness shown to a cripple and are asked how he was healed, 10then know this, you and all the people of Israel: It is by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified but whom God raised from the dead, that this man stands before you healed. 11He is
" 'the stone you builders rejected,
which has become the capstone.[a]'[b] 12Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved."
2006-06-28 12:20:06 · answer #7 · answered by Gardener for God(dmd) 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yep, but not the traditional hell. I think it refers to hell on earth. It doesn't matter what your itentions are, it's the result.
2006-06-28 12:08:32 · answer #8 · answered by goddess17 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
786.
I hate the very idea of intrusion behind closed walls!
2006-06-28 12:12:33 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you believe in hell, yes.
2006-06-28 12:09:35 · answer #10 · answered by I.Am.The.Storm. 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋