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GOOD PEOPLE GO TO HEAVEN The belief that good people go to heaven is correct, but the means by which one BECOMES good is almost universally flawed. In eternity, good people are saved and with the Lord and bad people are lost and in the lake of fire. That's common sense and scriptural, but people will argue forever about it, because they confuse BEING good with DOING good. I am going to heaven because I am good, but I am good only because Jesus Christ MADE me good by imputing to me his righteousness. The number of Christians who fail to understand this is quite disturbing. Many honestly believe that salvation through Christ means that God allows sinners into heaven because of what Jesus did at Calvary. That's 100% false. God allows no sinner into heaven. Through faith in Christ, a sinner becomes a saint, a new creature in Christ (II Cor. 5:17) through the divine act of imputation. This is where God IMPUTES to the repentant sinner the righteousness of Jesus Christ in exchange for the sinner RECEIVING Christ through faith. Romans 4:5 is very clear about the matter: "But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness." This means the man is no longer a sinner in the eyes of God. He is now righteous, and he is now good. His FLESH is not good (Rom. 7:18), but the new believer himself is as good as Jesus Christ, because the righteousness of Christ has been imputed to him. When he dies, he goes to heaven because he has been perfected in Christ (Heb. 10:14), not because God is nice enough to let sinners into heaven. Saints go to heaven. Sinners go to hell because they rejected the opportunity to be made righteous saints through Jesus Christ. So, although you can't DO enough good to be saved, you can certainly BECOME good by faith in Christ. In that context, good people go to heaven. Out of that context, all are condemned sinners.