Years ago, in a dialogue with a coworker, he stated that he
wasn’t going to go to hell because he hadn’t killed or raped anyone. Besides
the obvious fallacy of deciding his own criteria for entrance into heaven, his
statement only saw half of the truth. Our gaining eternal life is not about
"not" doing some things. That is part of it.
The fruit we produce in our life reveals what kind of
"tree" we are. The other half
is that of what we do. Its not enough to just not hate our neighbor, we need to
actively love our neighbor.
The Christian life is one of "good action", not
merely cessation of "bad action".
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