People who do good deeds, selfish? Options

[sakaitone]

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(BAD EXAMPLE, as noted by Kurd Jam) Do people do good deeds because they don't want to go to hell (if they believe in hell)?

(BAD EXAMPLE, as noted by Kurd Jam) Karma is the belief that if we do good things it will come back to us. Does that make people who believe in karma and do good things because they want the good things to come back to them selfish?

How about the people who do good things because it makes them feel better (because they did something good that day), does that make them selfish (because they're making themselves feel better)?

And when we're feeling sorry for someone and do something good to make them feel better, is it because we don't want to feel sorry for them and see them sad because that makes us sad, so we try to cheer them up because that way we can cheer ourselves up, is that selfish?

When someone is happy and they see someone who is having a rotten day, they do a good thing for that person because they want to spread their happiness so, maybe that way the happy person feels like they justified their happiness because they don't think it's fair that they're happy and someone's not. Does that make the person selfish?

Are people who do good deeds selfish?

[oXMuhNirvanaXo]

Just doing good deeds is not good enough. You could do all these good things for the ones around you and still not go to heaven. Everyone dose wrong so that person has to ask God to forgive them for the sins that they have done and move on with their lives.

The other week at my church there was a skit. This is how it went. There was chairs lined up on the stage and 3 people sitting on the seats with numbers around their necks. (paper) There was a angle standing at a post that was yellow in the middle of the stage. The angle called out some random number and this lady rose and went up to the angle. The angle said.. " Why do you think that you should be let in to the gates of glory. " The lady said all these good deeds that she has done in her life and the angle just shook his head and told her to sit. The lady went to sit down and the angle called another random number and another lady rose. He asked her the same question as he did the other lady.. She shook her head this time and said. " I didn't do many good things in my life and if I did I can't remember them right at this moment. I do know all the bad things I have done and I was hoping that Jesus would for give me for all of them. " The angle had a big smile on his face and let her through the gates.

The pastor then said that doing good deeds is not good enough.


I think that the people who think that just doing good deeds and not doing all the other things that are a must to get where your going is selfish.

[sweetangel2128]

Just doing good deeds is not good enough. You could do all these good things for the ones around you and still not go to heaven. Everyone dose wrong so that person has to ask God to forgive them for the sins that they have done and move on with their lives.

The other week at my church there was a skit. This is how it went. There was chairs lined up on the stage and 3 people sitting on the seats with numbers around their necks. (paper) There was a angle standing at a post that was yellow in the middle of the stage. The angle called out some random number and this lady rose and went up to the angle. The angle said.. " Why do you think that you should be let in to the gates of glory. " The lady said all these good deeds that she has done in her life and the angle just shook his head and told her to sit. The lady went to sit down and the angle called another random number and another lady rose. He asked her the same question as he did the other lady.. She shook her head this time and said. " I didn't do many good things in my life and if I did I can't remember them right at this moment. I do know all the bad things I have done and I was hoping that Jesus would for give me for all of them. " The angle had a big smile on his face and let her through the gates.

The pastor then said that doing good deeds is not good enough.
I think that the people who think that just doing good deeds and not doing all the other things that are a must to get where your going is selfish.

Exactly! Cause afterall the Bible states that you MUST accept Jesus because he is the only way to Heaven but it also says that NO ONE is good but GOD. Which is why Jesus is so critical for your salvation.