It may be the most commonly heard response to the question of what do you have to do to get to Heaven: “Well, I’m basically a good person, so I’m pretty confident God will let me in Heaven when I die.”
But think about it for a second. If being ‘good’ is the key standard, who defines what it means to be good? That of all your acts in life, including all your words and thoughts, 5o percent of them, plus one, were “good?”
Cold-Case Christianity’s J. Warner Wallace offers a bracing analysis of this issue in the following video: