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Your #85: Those who go to hell will go there not because of sins but because of their. . . good works.

That is a nice dramatic flourish, but not correct. They do not go to hell for keeping God's commandments, but for breaking them and being unrepentant about it.

That is a nice dramatic flourish, but not correct. They do not go to hell for keeping God's commandments, but for breaking them and being unrepentant about it.

So Judas Iscariot shows the way???

How do I gauge whether my degree of repentance is sufficient. Must I cry tears of repentance at the altar? What if I don't cry, am I really repenting??

When I believed in Christ I wasn't sorry for my past sins at all. The Holy Spirit let me know that because I was a sinner I needed Jesus Christ as my savior. I felt pretty good about that. But, with regard to sinning, I think I continued coveting a new Schwinn "Stingray" bike with a banana seat and monkeybars like other kids had.

Should I have promised God to never, ever covet again? Should I have felt miserable about the "good news" that Christ gave His life for me?

How about that Ethiopian eunuch to whom Phillip spoke? Do you think Phillip told that man to feel bad about those sins in his life like covetousness, jelousy, bitterness, worry, implaccability, self-righteousness?

Do you think he should have said, "Stop being so elated about this Isaiah stuff and start feeling repentant for all the bad things you've done in your wretched, miserable life?