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It means that planning to do something good but not doing it is the same as not planning to do it. It's actions that count, not intentions.

2007-11-25 07:37:35 · answer #1 · answered by mommanuke 7 · 7 4

It means that all those people going to hell will walk down the pathway, and can look back and see the intentions that they once had to do good, which they brushed to the side and didn't do. They'll have plenty of time to reminisce on the intentions to do right that they had, which never came to fruition.
It is not only applied to the road to hell being paved with good intention, but anyone can look back at their life and see something that they could have changed and made different, but didn't do and then wonder, 'it would have been different if I had not married her', or some other decision of magnitude.

2007-11-25 15:49:53 · answer #2 · answered by Yeah I'm Curious 1 · 0 0

Actually, I'm sure the road to hell is paved with some form of rock or asphalt. So i have no clue where the good intentions come in at.

2007-11-25 15:39:36 · answer #3 · answered by RiotCrisis 2 · 1 1

Having intentions of being saved,becoming a Christian,but putting it off until some other time.
Thus,one is walking on dangerous ground.The
path way to hell. Read 2ND Corinthians 6:2.

2007-11-25 15:56:08 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

give me a break people. It has nothing to do with trying to get into heaven with ACTS. It means that when we intend to live the gospel but don't actually do it and stay a sinner, we go to hell.

This proverb is ment to help us understand that it's not enough to want to be a good person, you have to get out there and be a Christian. You need to serve others and do good works.

When we do nothing at all we are not blessed and we sometimes become a backsliding Christian.

I am sure some church preacher will say I'm going to hell for being a Christian that wants to do good works. I wish more preachers would focus more on love.

2007-11-25 15:45:11 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0 1

As a general saying, this has come to mean that it doesn't do anyone any good to "intend" to do something.

There may have been a religious connotation when the saying originated. As far as hell is involved, I guess you could say that people who intend to accept Jesus as Saviour, and never get around to doing it, are headed down the road to hell.

2007-11-25 15:39:21 · answer #6 · answered by Faye 4 · 2 0

No, the road to hell is paved with rationalizations of evil.


Good intentions alone without the putting of them into effect will do no good and evil done with good ends in view are still evil .

People murdered by sincere and "well-meaning "people are still killed and are as dead as those killed by murderers who had notheng but bad intentions.

St John Chrysostom said that the road to hell is paved with the skulls of bad (Christian)priests and I would add evil and murderous protestant clergy and imams and other wicked scandal -givers of all religions and none.

2007-11-25 15:40:32 · answer #7 · answered by James O 7 · 1 2

The best way I can explain it is like this (just an example from my head):

A person who is a leader wants to make things better for their people, so they start making stricter laws to try to protect the community, be it no guns, curfews, no fighting... till it gets to the point that you damn near can't sneeze without permission. This kind of power could have an effect on even the most well-intentioned poeple. They get to the point that all they care about is having more power and keeping it.

I know its a bit over stated, but that's the best way I can explain it.

2007-11-25 15:42:46 · answer #8 · answered by **[Witty_Name]** 6 · 1 1

It means the same thing as Proverbs 14:12: “There exists a way that is upright before a man, but the ways of death are the end of it afterward.”

In other words, folks do what they think is right and then become first, shocked, and then dead, when they find out they were wrong.

Hannah J Paul

2007-11-25 15:41:45 · answer #9 · answered by Hannah J Paul 7 · 2 0

This is a hyperbole. If you just think about being nice to someone or doing a good turn, like helping the poor or going to visit your sick grandmama, but don't do it, it does no good at all.

Merely intending to do good, without actually doing it, is of no value.

http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/369100.html

Samuel Johnson did not say it.

2007-11-25 18:07:05 · answer #10 · answered by batgirl2good 7 · 0 0

I agree with biblioph... there are going to be a lot of people that end up in Hell, because they didn't truly except Jesus as Lord. If you are not cleansed by the Holy spirit, ( meaning forgiven by God) he will not know you when you die. You will be judged then you will spend eternity alone.

2007-11-25 15:42:31 · answer #11 · answered by 2telldatruth 4 · 1 0

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