[Arthur Wildfire! March]

I don’t have the exact verse ... from memory:

There is no greater love than to lay your life down for a friend.

The other:

God is charity. [aka ‘love’]

I personally believe that love can cleanse the soul — it is not as realiable as Jesus because we never feel perfect love all the time.

But some sodomite out in the battlefield who jumps on a grenade for his buddies? I like to think he goes to heaven ... LIKE to think.

Of course, it is better if we all feel fear for our souls, but I like to believe that selfless hearts full of self sacrifice are a kind of ‘window’ to heaven.

[WhatNot]

All I can say is, Praise God that His standard is not man's standard. God's standard is perfection, man's standard is "Hey, my good deeds should out weigh my bad deeds" but then heaven would be filled with wicked, vile unrepentant sinners, who may have done a few good things in their lifetimes.

If that were the case, and if heaven was filled with those type of people, I wouldn't want to serve the Lord, because heaven would be a horrible place to spend eternity, and our heavenly Father wouldn't be a just, righteous and holy God.