Clarifying salvation

After something I heard last night, I just wanted to take the time to clarify something for those non-Christians (and those Christians) who don't get it: A person who goes to Hell doesn't go because he is "a bad person" or "such a bad person". A person goes to Hell because he is a sinner; and we're all sinners. God just chooses to save some purely through his prerogative and not because of anything we do. So conversely, a person who goes to Heaven doesn't go because he's "a good person". A person goes to Heaven because Christ was a good person (in absolute terms, not "good" relative to other people).

Another common thing I hear is that someone goes to Hell "for not believing in Jesus". No, a person goes to Hell because he's a sinner. The poor soul just happened to reject the one thing, freely offered, that can save him from his sin.

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