Jedidiah Englishman
(English Manager of Mongolia Institute for Church Theology
Pioneers International)
Q: If God is just,
then how can a person who is more wicked than anybody else go to heaven if he
becomes a Christian on his death bed, while someone who is good and lives a
life for other people go to hell just because he is not a Christian, whether by
choice or by circumstances?
A: If you have two
glasses of water, and one has 1% poison and the other 99% poison, which one of the
two would you drink? The answer is
neither, because whether there is 1% or 99%, you will die when you drink either
one of them.
Let’s suppose that you have an antidote which can completely
purify the poison, and you add that antidote to the glass with 99% poison. Now which glass of water would you
drink? Would you drink the one with 1%
poison, or the one with 99% that has been completely purified of poison? The answer is the latter; the one that once
was 99% poison that is now completely purified by the antidote is the one you’d
drink.
The antidote is Jesus.
No matter how good we are, we have certain levels of poison (sin), and with
this sin we are not acceptable to a sinless God. Some might have more than others, but it does
not matter. What is important is not
whether we have more poison (sin) than others or not, but whether we have the
antidote, Jesus. When Jesus comes into
our lives, our sins are completely dissolved and we are now acceptable to
God. If there is no Jesus, it does not
matter how many fewer sins we have compared to others, our sins remain;
therefore we are not acceptable to a holy God.
If we have Jesus, it does not matter how many more sins we have compared
to others, all our sins are completely purified through Jesus; therefore we
become acceptable to God.
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