Bonefishblues wrote:francovendee wrote:Greatest salesman of the century
How do you mean?
Christianity promises that if you take Jesus as your Lord and saviour* you'll go to a better place(heaven)when you die.
Its a great sales pitch without an product,the original jam tomorrow and lots of it.
That said if you follow the gospel's teaching and find nothing when you die ie; you don't wake up in heaven,then it could be argued you lead a good life and that was reward in itself,but you could do live a good life anyway.
To emphasise,good "works" according to the gospels won't get you into heaven,only the Love of Jesus as your Lord and saviour can do that and that by accepting Him as that the good "works" will naturally follow.
*first you have to agree to need saving from something(in this case hell/damnation/the devil) to require a savior.