Had a conversation with my friend about Christianity 2 days ago, and she asked: how about those good people but don’t know the Lord, would they go the hell?

This question rise up in my heart again just tonight… and here are some of my thoughts.

First of all, to answer the question we have to define”good”, or “goodness”.

So I went on to research for the definition, and here is one common definition that I found…

goodness – moral excellence or admirableness

okay, now let’s take a close look at moral excellence. For a person to be good person, she/he should be in a moral condition of excelling or superiority. so we would like to think if there are some doing more good, or showing good character, then others, then we would consider them to be more of good person than the rest.

However, we tends to forgot who holds the measurement of goodness. God is the ultimate judge, not us. and with his measurement, which is absolute holy/righteousness, all the wrong doings are just purely wrong, as all the sins are just sins. There is no sin better than other sins, as there are no evil worse than other evils. So for a person to lie is as evil as for a person to prostitute, as evil as for a person to talking behind other’s back, and as evil as for a person to kill or to rape.

The bottom line is, there is just no one, not even one, can stand before God and claim that he/she is a “good” person. sadly to say, we have to recognize that we are just as filthy as we can be in our hearts and in our actions.

So going back to our very first question, now you can see where I am going… there is no one is good, or good enough, to be able to pass God’s holy judgment; as a result, there is only one road leads to redemption, there is only one way leads to heaven, and there is only one Jesus can bring us out from our misery failure of trying to be good.

Make sense?!