What are your personal views of the Holy Bible? Would it be fair to say that you pretty much believe it is the Word of God? Oh, maybe you consider yourself to be something of a moderate on this issue but, overall, you do believe in God and Heaven based on what you've read or heard that the Bible says.

Since you do believe that the Bible is reasonably accurate and there is someone that is God and Heaven is real you must have your opinions about who goes to heaven when they die.

The majority opinion in the world is that since God is love that all good people when they die will go to heaven. The problem comes when we tried to define what is good. How can you defend the fact that you are a good person?

Many people think of themselves as good people because they compare themselves to friends and coworkers and family members. And, let's be honest, compared to many of them you really are a relatively good person.

Unfortunately, being a relatively good person is not what God is looking for. He requires that we compare ourselves not to other people but that we compare ourselves to him. When we do that we don't come off quite as well.

The reason we can understand this so clearly and easily is because God has given us the 10 Commandments as a help for us. He really wants us to understand how far we are from being good people compared to him. Obeying most of the 10 Commandments most of the time will not make us good people.

There is no doubt that in your lifetime you have told more than one lie. Even if you justified it as just a little white lie to spare someone else's feelings, it may be understandable why you lied but it was still a violation of the 10 Commandments. In the same way you have also established yourself as not only being a liar but also being a thief because you have stolen one of more things in the course of your lifetime.

God's desire for us is to measure ourselves against the 10 Commandments so that we can see clearly how far from him we are. His intention is that once we see ourselves for what we truly are that we will sincerely apologize to him, a sincere apology naturally involves a change of actions and that we would ask for his forgiveness in Christ. Obviously this is a deep subject and there is a lot more that can be said about it.