"Do you think good people who aren't Christians go to hell?" Try to guess which famous American lamented the injustice he had suffered with the words: "I have spent the best years of my life giving people the lighter pleasures, helping them have a good time, and all I get is abuse, the existence of a hunted man." It was Al Capone. We know Al Capone as a gangster and a murderer, but Al Capone thought he was a pretty good person, a man of justice in a world of injustice. Your standard of justice is most likely higher than Al Capone's standard of justice, but God's standard of justice is much higher still. In fact, the Bible says that God's standard of justice is absolute perfection and defines sin as anything short of it, including seemingly innocuous things like jealousy (Exodus 20:17), lust (Matthew 5:27-28) or being angry without reason (Matthew 5:21-22). The Bible adds that everyone has sinned (Romans 3:22) and that the mandatory sentence for sin is the death penalty (Romans 6:23). That's the bad news. The Gospel, which means "good news" is that God in His love decided not to wipe us out. But neither could a God of justice simply let our sins slip by since turning a blind eye to injustice wouldn't serve justice. So what did God do? He came and took our death penalty upon himself. If that is tricky to understand, imagine that you have been found guilty of a crime which carries a mandatory death penalty. At your sentencing, you stand before the judge, who happens to be your father. Because your father is a good judge who needs to uphold justice, he confirms your penalty of death. But then, as you start to panic, your father rises from the bench, takes off the judge's robe, walks down to you and tells you that because he loves you, he will take your death penalty to save you, and does. The cross of Jesus was where the Justice of God collided with the love of God, and Jesus was the only one capable of absorbing the force of that collision. So, to answer your question, the Bible says that people who are "good" as defined by God go to heaven, and the rest of us go to Hell unless we sincerely recognize ourselves as falling short of God's standard of perfection (i.e., are "sinners") and believe that "God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life." (John 3:16)
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