You don't go to Heaven because you were a good person. Besides Jesus, there are no such thing as good people.
Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin. But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets; Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe: for there is no difference: For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God; Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:
this always bothered me, especially it being a passage in Romans, written in a Bible compiled by the Romans. It basically says you can be a bad person, an explicitly bad person, but still go to heaven because you believe in God. how convenient for the conquesting, slave keeping, and sexually promiscuous romans.
What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein? Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death? Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.
translation: Please don't sin, pretty please! Just know that your sins are forgiven simply by believing in Christ. no matter how many times you burn villages or fornicate, so long as you believe in Jesus everything will be okay. no need to right your wrongs or anything
Nowhere does it say you won't be punished for sinning. You just won't have to go to hell if you're saved. There's plenty of other kinds of punishments and saved Christians who continue to sin have plenty of regrets in this life and the next.
You don't go to Heaven because you were a good person. Besides Jesus, there are no such thing as good people.
Romans 3:20-24
this always bothered me, especially it being a passage in Romans, written in a Bible compiled by the Romans. It basically says you can be a bad person, an explicitly bad person, but still go to heaven because you believe in God. how convenient for the conquesting, slave keeping, and sexually promiscuous romans.
From Romans 6:1-4
translation: Please don't sin, pretty please! Just know that your sins are forgiven simply by believing in Christ. no matter how many times you burn villages or fornicate, so long as you believe in Jesus everything will be okay. no need to right your wrongs or anything
Nowhere does it say you won't be punished for sinning. You just won't have to go to hell if you're saved. There's plenty of other kinds of punishments and saved Christians who continue to sin have plenty of regrets in this life and the next.