Okay, let's wrap this up with a few passages from God's Word that makes clear this catch-22:
Romans 3:20 - “No man can justify himself before God by a perfect performance of the Law's demands - indeed it is the straight-edge of the Law that shows us how crooked we are.” In other words, God says, being good enough is impossible.
Galatians 3:10-11 - And that means that anyone who tries to live by his own effort, independent of God, is doomed to failure. Scripture backs this up: "Utterly cursed is every person who fails to carry out every detail written in the Book of the law." The obvious impossibility of carrying out such a moral program should make it plain that no one can sustain a relationship with God that way. Is it clear? No one can have a relationship with God based on being "good."
God's plan has NEVER been that good people go to heaven or that bad people can't go. His plan has always been that FORGIVEN people go to heaven. Here, last verse and we're done:
"For everyone has sinned; we all fall short of God’s glorious standard. Yet God, with undeserved kindness, declares that we are righteous. He did this through Christ Jesus when he freed us from the penalty for our sins. For God presented Jesus as the sacrifice for sin. People are made right with God when they believe that Jesus sacrificed his life, shedding his blood. So we are made right with God through faith and not by obeying the law." Romans 3:23-25, 28
You see, this is why Jesus came... to collide with religions that say, "be good and you'll get to heaven." No. Jesus says, "I am the way" to heaven. It's my sacrifice on the cross rather than your good deeds that'll get you eternal life.
Put your total faith in Jesus right now and what he did for you on the cross. You'll be forgiven, have a personal relationship with God, and you'll have a place secured in his Kingdom in the afterlife. It's the reason why Jesus came.
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