Christianity for Dummy's part 2

"Good people go to heaven, while bad people go to hell." "I'm basically a good person." "I donate millions and do volunteer work." You've heard it, or it's been insinuated, or the theme has been played out in theatre, TV, film, or print.

Here's the problem; no one can agree on what "good" is, especially religious leaders. For instance as an extreme example, Islam rewards the killing of infidels (non-Islams) as good. Good, bad, right, wrong are all "subject to's" whose opinion or what the popular religious flavor is.

Even if we could all agree on what good is, how good is good enough to get to heaven? Is it an average, percentage or graded on a curve? If 51% of your deeds are good, do you make the cut? Or worse yet, what if you found you "missed it by that much" as agent 86 would say. Heck, even the Bible makes no mention on what works you can do to earn your way through being good. All those rules and regs were culturally and physically shown to be impossible to keep.

Here's the classic head-scratcher; Jesus told the local religious leaders of the day who worked their whole life to be the best they could be, that they weren't good enough to go to heaven, yet He promised prostitutes and criminals they were gladly welcomed. Huh?

There has to be a common denominator all can agree to don't you agree? It's simple...

Forgiven people.