How GOOD IS GOOD ENOUGH?
Bad People Go
To Heaven
April 15, 2007
Elder
Kirk Bode
Bad People Go To Heaven
Premise:
Good People go to Heaven
It is a fair system
You will make the cut
It motivates us to be good
It is very consistent with the idea of a good God
Major problems believing that Good People Go to Heaven and Bad people
dont
There is no clear standard of Good and Bad by which
we can check our progress
We dont know how it grades out
It makes a liar out of Jesus Christ
Luke 23:32-43
32Two other men, both criminals, were also led out with him to be
executed. 33When they came to the place called the Skull,
there they crucified him, along with the criminalsone on his right, the other
on his left. 34Jesus said, "Father, forgive them, for they do not
know what they are doing. And they divided up his clothes by casting
lots.
35The people stood watching, and the rulers even sneered at him.
They said, "He saved others; let him save himself if he is the Christ of
God, the
Luke 23:32-43
36The soldiers also came up and mocked him. They offered him wine
vinegar 37and said, "If you are the king of the Jews, save yourself."
38There was a written notice above him, which read:|sc THIS IS THE KING OF THE JEWS.
39One of the criminals who hung there hurled insults at him:
"Aren't you the Christ? Save yourself and us!"
Luke 23:32-43
Christianity is the most just, fair system possible in an unjust unfair
world
Everybody is welcome
Romans 10:13
Everybody gets in the same way
John 14:6
Everybody is welcome
Romans 10:13