[kosta50]

How is this any different than the thief on the cross and someone like Paul or James. All are in heaven with the Father. Or how is it any different than the parable of the farmer who goes into the labor market and pays the same wages to those who were hired early and toiled through the heat of the day and those who were hired late and maybe worked for an hour?

You're right on the money, BD. That's the message. I say pecca fortiter and repent in the last moment. Bad boys and slackers get to do all the fun things and they get all the benefits too! Right?

[blue-duncan]

"Bad boys and slackers get to do all the fun things and they get all the benefits too! Right?"

Story of my life. Being brought up in a parsonage I had to "experience" the "fun" after developing a keen conscience. Double the guilt with no sense of satisfaction! I had no one to brag about it to and every one I was with said "you shouldn't be doing that, your dad is a Pastor..