More Good Than Bad

2021-11-08

I generally do more good things than bad things, so I must be okay with God. That’s how it works, right?

Not true. This shows a gross misunderstanding of who God is. The Quran teaches it (Sura 7:8-9), but not the Bible.

If good deeds outweighing bad deeds is acceptable with God, then we have a compromised god who is not God. He cannot be good because he accepts evil. A purely righteous, holy, and good God will punish evil.

And herein is the age-old problem: He loves people, but He must punish sin. And we’re sinners. “There is none righteous, no, not one” (Romans 3:10). A little bit evil is evil. God’s justice demands a penalty, but God’s love demands a pardon.

Jesus Christ was the one who bore the wrath of God for us. Perfect in every way, He was condemned. But He rose from the dead. All who place their trust in Him has a complete pardon of sins. We do not trust in any goodness we may think we have.

He has “delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son” (Colossians 1:13).