Sept. 25, 2025 - Freedomain Radio - Stefan Molyneux
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Can You Get Into Heaven by Doing Nothing?
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Can you get into heaven by doing nothing?
Yes.
Christ died for the ungodly.
With his stripes were healed.
It is finished.
Okay.
So a non-believer, a murderer, a sinner, a fornicator can get into heaven by doing nothing.
No repentance, no worship, no church going, no prayer, no conciliation with God, no nothing.
He can just go do his evil stuff and he just sails like a soap bubble.
He just sails up through the atmosphere into heaven when he dies.
You have to believe in the Lord Jesus Christ.
Fantastic.
Okay.
So you have to earn.
No.
Forgive me.
Faith is the opposite of doing.
This is one thing I struggle with for years.
Faith is, okay, so the gospel is Christ died for our sins.
What does that mean?
Your sins are forgiven.
Go in peace.
So if Christ died for my sins, I'm forgiven.
And so I have to literally call God a liar to say that Christ did not die for my sins.
Okay, so if Christ died for everyone's sins and then everyone is forgiven, you don't need to do anything to get to heaven.
He didn't die for everybody.
He only died for the elect.
Okay, so you have to believe in Jesus to get to heaven.
And you also, you can't say, I believe in Jesus and then break all the commandments, right?
You can't go around murdering people saying, I believe in Jesus and go to heaven, right?
Justification and sanctification are separate.
You're trying to mix the two.
You can't do that when you're talking about justification.
Don't tell me what I can and can't do.
That's kind of rude.
You can make a case for something, but don't give me orders.
I'm not trying to be rude, but.
No, you are.
You're telling me what I can and can't talk about.
I mean, you can make a difference.
I mean, no, you can talk about Bob Saint theologically speaking.
You can't do that.
Can a murderer who claims to believe in Jesus go to heaven?
Okay.
Homosexual can go to heaven if he believes in Jesus.
Look, we have this sin in us.
So you can be a mass murderer.
You can be a pedophile.
And if you say you believe in Jesus, you're good.
I don't care about what the person says.
Is the person believing in Jesus?
So do they come to Christ?
Do they put their hand on the sacrifice by faith appropriate that as theirs?
If they do to say that they're saying, so if you believe in Jesus, then clearly you believe in Jesus' teachings, right?
Yes, part of faith is knowledge, and then the second part of faith is a sense, and the third part is trust.
Well, and there has to be actions as well, right?
No, no.
Well, no, because if you have a believe in a math teacher who says that two and two make four, if I believe in a math teacher who says that two and two make four, if I go around saying two and two make five, am I following the teachings of that math teacher?
No, yeah, yeah, I guess you're calling a math teacher a liar.
Well, I can't say I believe in this math teacher.
I accept that the math teacher is perfect and divine and wonderful and always true.
And this math teacher says that two and two make four, but I go around saying that two and two make five.
Would that not be an indication that I do not actually believe in what the math teacher says?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Okay.
So if you believe in Jesus, you have to follow what Jesus says in your actions.
No, no, just as if you believe in the math teacher who says two and two make four, you have to say that two and two make four.
If you believe in Jesus, you will follow him.
It's not, we don't follow him because we are trying to avoid hell.
We follow him because that's naturally what we're going to do.
Fantastic.
Okay.
So the way that you know if somebody truly believes in Jesus is they're following his teachings, right?
Yeah, we judge people by their actions.
God judges them by their heart, but we can only see the actions.
Okay, okay.
So to believe in Jesus means that you act in a manner consistent with Jesus' teachings, right?
No, so that's where you're met.
No, no, we just went through this.
You can't do that.
No, we say we judge people by their actions and by their truths, shall you know them?