2007-08-08 17:11:11 · 17 answers · asked by Nigel 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Faith in Christ is enough. You can't be good enough.
2007-08-08 17:14:28 · answer #1 · answered by Fish <>< 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
It's so far to go, I'd just concentrate at what's at your feet. Heaven can wait. If you act appropriately, thoughtfully, in the here an now, all will be revealed (or not). So trust yourself to think for yourself, and stand on quietly. There are no maps - only signposts. They are the consequences of the choices you make and the actions you take. Enjoy. This is not a rehearsal.
2007-08-08 17:16:29 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No one can ever be good enough to go to heaven. Heaven cannot be earned. This is why God provided a way to Heaven thru His Son's Sacrifice for us. It's not our "doing" that gets us to Heaven, but Christ's "dying" that paved the way. If you try to earn your way, you will fail. But if you trust and accept Jesus' atonment for your sins and choose to make Him Lord of your life, you will have the free gift Jesus so freely offers you. God bless
2007-08-08 17:20:21 · answer #3 · answered by connie 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Good enough to send you to heaven means no bad whatsoever!
2007-08-08 17:14:12 · answer #4 · answered by HeatherFeather 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
"There is none good, no, not one."
None of us are good enough to get into heaven. Honest.
Nevertheless, God has given us a way to eternal life. That way is Jesus. Even so, eternal life is not something that can be earned, but rather is a gift from God of which none of us are deserving.
Jim, http://www.jimpettis.com/wheel/
2007-08-08 17:16:17 · answer #5 · answered by JimPettis 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have heaven insurance taken out of my paycheck each weak so I can be bad or good.
2007-08-08 17:22:27 · answer #6 · answered by You_Asked 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
1Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a member of the Jewish ruling council. 2He came to Jesus at night and said, "Rabbi, we know you are a teacher who has come from God. For no one could perform the miraculous signs you are doing if God were not with him."
3In reply Jesus declared, "I tell you the truth, no one can see the kingdom of God unless he is born again.[a]"
4"How can a man be born when he is old?" Nicodemus asked. "Surely he cannot enter a second time into his mother's womb to be born!"
5Jesus answered, "I tell you the truth, no one can enter the kingdom of God unless he is born of water and the Spirit. 6Flesh gives birth to flesh, but the Spirit[b] gives birth to spirit. 7You should not be surprised at my saying, 'You[c] must be born again.' 8The wind blows wherever it pleases. You hear its sound, but you cannot tell where it comes from or where it is going. So it is with everyone born of the Spirit."
9"How can this be?" Nicodemus asked.
10"You are Israel's teacher," said Jesus, "and do you not understand these things? 11I tell you the truth, we speak of what we know, and we testify to what we have seen, but still you people do not accept our testimony. 12I have spoken to you of earthly things and you do not believe; how then will you believe if I speak of heavenly things? 13No one has ever gone into heaven except the one who came from heaven—the Son of Man.[d] 14Just as Moses lifted up the snake in the desert, so the Son of Man must be lifted up, 15that everyone who believes in him may have eternal life.[e]
16"For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son,[f] that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. 17For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. 18Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because he has not believed in the name of God's one and only Son.[g] 19This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but men loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil. 20Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that his deeds will be exposed. 21But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, so that it may be seen plainly that what he has done has been done through God.
(John 3:1-21)
Therefore Jesus has not come to condemn us, but that through faith in Him we may receive the Holy Ghost who will surely make us the kind of (good) person God wants us to be, more and more like Jesus Christ.
God bless,
Andrew
2007-08-08 18:23:09 · answer #7 · answered by Andrew W. Peoples 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No good is good enough...only through the atoning grace of Jesus Christ can you make it to heaven.
Non of us are "good enough"....thank God for Christ's sacrifice.
2007-08-08 17:14:55 · answer #8 · answered by mizmead 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Being good won't get you to heaven. Believing in God will! : )
2007-08-08 17:14:41 · answer #9 · answered by Need Advice? 3 · 4⤊ 0⤋
no one can send you to heaven no one not even your self.
2007-08-08 17:16:20 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋