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Actually, if you are referring to Christianity you don't go to heaven if you behave well, you go to heaven if you state that you believe in Jesus Christ and tha
by chrischen 7y ago
Actually, if you are referring to Christianity you don't go to heaven if you behave well, you go to heaven if you state that you believe in Jesus Christ and that he has forgiven you for your sins (behaving not well).
In fact that's probably one of the reason why Christianity is so popular and has survived throughout the ages, and it's for the opposite reason of what you stated—that people can forgive themselves for behaving not well and still go to heaven.
- empath75 7y agoYou’re talking about faith vs works and now everyone believes that faith is enough.
- chrischen 7y agoWhat do you mean by faith? Faith that Jesus has already paid (therefore forgiven) you for your sins?
- empath75 7y agohttp://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08573a.htm http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08573a.htm More than you wanted to know about catholic doctrine — but essentially faith (as in belief) isn’t enough. It has to be accompanied by charity and good works.
- chrischen 7y agoCould be why the protestants protested then. It's definitely not part of most protestant doctrines, and your article talks about that. > In the Protestant system, however, remission of sin is no real forgiveness, no blotting out of guilt. Sin is merely cloaked and concealed by the imputed merits of Christ; The overwhelming majority of religous Americans are protestants.
- empath75 7y agoThe majority of Christians world wide are catholic, though. Orthodoxy has a similar doctrine, too.