Plan Of Salvation And The 10 Commandments

by Jim Gat

How do you view the Bible? Do you at least view it as a reasonable book or do you just dismiss it out of hand? If your personal view of the Bible is that in some sense it gives us information about the reality of God and of heaven then you are in good company.

Since you do believe that the Bible is reasonably accurate and there is someone that is God and Heaven is real you must have your opinions about who goes to heaven when they die.

The majority opinion in the world is that since God is love that all good people when they die will go to heaven. The problem comes when we tried to define what is good. How can you defend the fact that you are a good person?

Do you consider yourself to be a good person because compared to your family, and friends, and coworkers, and people that you see you on television you definitely are a good person?

Unfortunately, being a relatively good person is not what God is looking for. He requires that we compare ourselves not to other people but that we compare ourselves to him. When we do that we don’t come off quite as well.

Naturally you want evidence to back this up and we don’t have to go any further than just looking briefly at the 10 Commandments. God wants us to have a clearer picture of how far we really are from being good people. Within society we are probably good people compared to others but the absolute of the 10 Commandments makes it clear to all of us that we do not measure up.

There is no doubt that in your lifetime you have told more than one lie. Even if you justified it as just a little white lie to spare someone else’s feelings, it may be understandable why you lied but it was still a violation of the 10 Commandments. In the same way you have also established yourself as not only being a liar but also being a thief because you have stolen one of more things in the course of your lifetime.

God simply wants us to realize that we are far from meeting his absolute standard of goodness. He shows us this in love knowing that many of us, once we see ourselves as God sees us, will truly be sorry and come to him with an apology. In that sincere apology, naturally there will also be as with any apology a change in our actions. And as part of any sincere apology we always also ask for forgiveness. When we ask for that forgiveness in the name of Jesus the Christ you will not only be forgiven but the penalty for the sins will also be erased. Of course, this is only scratching the surface of this issue there is much more that can be written about it.

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