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I am always surprised at how many people think that getting into Heaven is about doing good and being good. It’s actually the opposite. It is those who understand that they can’t ever be good enough, and who realize their need for the atoning work of Christ, who will go to Heaven.

Is it really that hard for people to conceive of a God who is both loving and just? By just I mean that he will judge people, and that he has wrath, and that he hates sin. I’m sure we can all think of people we believe deserve to go to hell, like Hitler. Can’t God feel the same way?

Matthew 22:34-40 34 But when the Pharisees heard that He had silenced the Sadducees, they gathered together. 35 Then one of them, a lawyer, asked Him a question, testing Him, and saying, 36 "Teacher, which is the great commandment in the law?" 37 Jesus said to him, "'You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.' 38 This is the first and great commandment. 39 And the second is like it: 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself.' 40 On these two commandments hang all the Law and the Prophets."

'...[T]o do good to the neighbour for the sake of God, thus with God and from God, is what is called religion.' AR 484 - Swedenborg

The Lord loves all, equally. People judge and condemn themselves. The Lord's 'wrath' is an appearance to those that have chosen hell for themselves.