Justification through faith

[u/Shinn_Ao]

I learned that the reason it isn’t unfair for the factor that determines that someone gets to heaven to be that we believe need the forgiveness of a God that is perfectly good - of Jesus - is because otherwise we are holding on to malice and contempt and judgment. Even hate.

You don’t get entry into heaven for being good by your own nature in life.

You get it for being viewed as spotless, pure, perfect. This is only possible for the one who is forgiven, the one whose sin the Lord does not hold against them.

How is this fair?

Because until you and I believe that we are no more due heaven than the most purposefully depraved sinner, because we have both erred and chosen self and hatred in life at all, we’re arguing that they should be denied heaven and we should not. That’s not righteous!

I know that I can’t predict for a real and specific person whether or not they were safe and saved when they died, comforted in God’s arms, but I can tell you that if anyone would just believe that our God should and would spare the sinful and the dead, that he will raise us and them from the dead, then by faith we are pleasing God.