While I won’t argue that’s not a dominant belief, it’s a lot more nuanced than that. The central message of Christianity is forgiveness, not judgement. Jesus didn’t say, “If you’re good enough, you can get to heaven.” He said, no one is good enough to get into heaven on their own. We’re all flawed beings who screw up and do the wrong things (which isn’t to say some of us aren’t more flawed than others). Based just on how much good they’ve done, no human can have eternal life. However (this is the central message of Christianity) if you can accept that you are flawed and ask for forgiveness, then eternal life is accessible, regardless of how badly you may have screwed up in the past.
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