Votto
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The Good Place is a mini series on Netflix that depicts Hollywood's version of what heaven must be like. The story is about a woman who was accidentally placed in heaven when she should have gone to the "bad place", presumably hell.
In the theology of the sit com, all religions are partially correct about heaven, around 15% of the truth in each. But there was one guy who smoked pot and listened to the Grateful Dead who amazingly got around 90% of it all right. I suppose it was meant to be funny, but I really think the world thinks this way as well. In the Netflix series, people are judged based upon "good" deeds and "bad" deeds. The more your good deeds outweigh your bad deeds, the more likely you will enter heaven.
Looking at world religions, I would say that most think this way. The hope is that your good deeds outweigh your bad deeds so that you make it into heaven............except..................Christianity. Only Christianity is where your good and bad deeds are not the basis for salvation. This means that as long as one is repentant, you can live a live askew in bad deeds and then repent and have hope. Conversely, followers of Christ are not burdened with the notion that they have to earn their way into heaven, nor be prideful of all their good deeds to assume they will make it.
In the theology of the sit com, all religions are partially correct about heaven, around 15% of the truth in each. But there was one guy who smoked pot and listened to the Grateful Dead who amazingly got around 90% of it all right. I suppose it was meant to be funny, but I really think the world thinks this way as well. In the Netflix series, people are judged based upon "good" deeds and "bad" deeds. The more your good deeds outweigh your bad deeds, the more likely you will enter heaven.
Looking at world religions, I would say that most think this way. The hope is that your good deeds outweigh your bad deeds so that you make it into heaven............except..................Christianity. Only Christianity is where your good and bad deeds are not the basis for salvation. This means that as long as one is repentant, you can live a live askew in bad deeds and then repent and have hope. Conversely, followers of Christ are not burdened with the notion that they have to earn their way into heaven, nor be prideful of all their good deeds to assume they will make it.