23 Minutes In Hell by Wiese Bill

Author:Wiese, Bill [Wiese, Bill]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Non-Fiction, Spiritual, Religion
ISBN: 9781591858829
Publisher: Casscom Media
Published: 2006-01-02T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 6

Can “Good” People Go to Hell?

You might be thinking, “Am I a good enough person to go to heaven? Yes, I think I am. Who goes to hell? Only bad people, really bad people like Hitler, Stalin, murderers, rapists, and so forth. People who kill little children. Those are the really bad people.”

This sounds reasonable to most of us. But what standard is used to determine if one is “good enough” to go to heaven and another is “bad enough” to go to hell? What criterion determines our eternal fate? Could it be based on a higher standard? This is something we all need to know for certain. What authority can give us those answers?

The Bible has much to say about this widely misunderstood subject. Perhaps you even have your own opinion about the realities of hell. Are you willing to risk your eternity on “your opinion”? Since the Bible has undergone such intense scrutiny, thorough investigation, and thousands of years of testing, you may want to at least research what it has to say about this matter.

The qualification for entrance into heaven (or hell) is not based on how we compare to others. You may look pretty good to yourself, but what if you were looked at through the eyes of one who is sinless? What if you were judged not only by your actions but also by your thoughts? Would that make you a little more uncomfortable? If we are honest, we will admit that our actions alone would condemn us.

A girl was looking at a beautiful hillside covered with lush, green grass. She noticed a herd of sheep standing on the hill. They looked so white and clean, especially against the dark green grass. The girl went to bed, and the next morning she walked outside to look at the sheep. However, it had snowed all night. The sheep were still there, but now, against the unblemished white snow, they looked dingy, even dirty.[1] In the same way, our “goodness” when compared to God’s standard for “good” falls far, far short.

Or perhaps you view your actions and thoughts in the same way Danny viewed his parking tickets. Ray Comfort, in his book “How to Live Forever…Without Being Religious,” explains what happened to his friend Danny.[2] “When he told me that he once went to prison for failing to pay parking tickets, I asked, ‘Why didn’t you just pay them?’ He answered, ‘They were just parking tickets; it was no big deal.’ Then he told me that the police arrived at his home at 4:00 a.m., put him in a big black bus, and took him to Los Angeles County court. As he stood before the judge, he said, ‘Your Honor, I brought $700 with me to pay the tickets and to cover the court costs.’ The judge said, ‘Mr. Goodall, I’m going to save you all that money. You are going to jail!’” Danny was terrified.

His big mistake was that he trivialized his crimes by thinking that they were “just” parking tickets, and so he deceived himself.

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