"I know I am a good person..."
"I know I am a good person, but I am also an atheist. Heaven or hell doesn't come in to the equation for me because I quite simply don't believe in them! -Anonymous"
Anonymous, thank you for sharing. Please take a moment to carefully examine your heart: How can you know you are a good person? By whose standard? When you have no standard for right and wrong, you have no measuring stick for "good" and "bad."
I disagree with your statement that you are a good person. I do not disagree by my own definitions, but by God's definitions. Scripture is clear that no one is good, but God.
Ps 98:9 - Before the LORD; for he cometh to judge the earth: with righteousness shall he judge the world, and the people with equity.
Ac 17:31 - Because he hath appointed a day, in the which he will judge the world in righteousness...
Ro 10:3 -For they being ignorant of God's righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God.
All of our righteousnesses are as filthy rags in God's sight. We can try, in our own strength, to live a good life. But, without Christ, we are dead in our sins, we are wicked, vile, and corrupt.
Isa 64:6 - But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.
Only in Christ can we find righteousness.
Ro 3:22 - Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe: for there is no difference:
I urge anyone reading this who is trying to live a good life in and of their own strength: Cry out to the Lord today in repentance that He would have mercy upon you and save you from your sins and wickedness, that He would cover you with His blood shed on the cross for the sins of His people, and that you would no longer live unto yourself, but that you would live a life of righteouness and holiness, through the grace of God.
Anonymous, thank you for sharing. Please take a moment to carefully examine your heart: How can you know you are a good person? By whose standard? When you have no standard for right and wrong, you have no measuring stick for "good" and "bad."
I disagree with your statement that you are a good person. I do not disagree by my own definitions, but by God's definitions. Scripture is clear that no one is good, but God.
- Ps 14:3 - They are all gone aside, they are all together become filthy: there is none that doeth good, no, not one.
- Ps 53:3 - Every one of them is gone back: they are altogether become filthy; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.
Ps 98:9 - Before the LORD; for he cometh to judge the earth: with righteousness shall he judge the world, and the people with equity.
Ac 17:31 - Because he hath appointed a day, in the which he will judge the world in righteousness...
Ro 10:3 -For they being ignorant of God's righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God.
All of our righteousnesses are as filthy rags in God's sight. We can try, in our own strength, to live a good life. But, without Christ, we are dead in our sins, we are wicked, vile, and corrupt.
Isa 64:6 - But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.
Only in Christ can we find righteousness.
Ro 3:22 - Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe: for there is no difference:
I urge anyone reading this who is trying to live a good life in and of their own strength: Cry out to the Lord today in repentance that He would have mercy upon you and save you from your sins and wickedness, that He would cover you with His blood shed on the cross for the sins of His people, and that you would no longer live unto yourself, but that you would live a life of righteouness and holiness, through the grace of God.
posted by Crystal Paine at 2:27 PM
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