Worldly scoring system of success.
The worlds scoring system for life is based on how much stuff, money, or fame we can accumulate in this life. The ironic thing is that we can not take the measure of success along with us when we die. No matter how much we accumulate, we can never be satisfied because too much is never enough.
Religious scoring systems, each church and religion has its own.
The Catholic’s ultimate scoring system is based on having enough cardinals vote for you to elect you as Pope. Some Islam sects keep track how many innocent people a suicide boomer can take with them. Many Christians use talking in tongues or how many people they witness to as a measure of their success in life.
Jesus scoring system is based on His teachings.
On our Judgment Day, we will not need a lawyer to plead our case, we will not be judged, we will only be sentenced. We will already have been convicted to heaven or hell depending on how we lived our lives in accordance with the teachings of Jesus. Today most people believe it is ok to go along with the teachings of humanism, just a the residents of Sodom believed that the homosexual lifestyle they were living was ok until the city was destroyed with fire and brimstone. Jesus teachings are completely reversed from the ways of the world and our lazy, lustful bodies.
Our personal life scoring system should be based on overcoming our strong bodies.
It is said that the body is weak, but when we try to overcome our lazy, lustful bodies we find that our bodies are very strong. Look how hard it is for smokers to quit smoking. Our bodies are weak in doing good, but strong in doing evil. We should give ourselves two positive points when we overcome our bodies and only one negative point when we give into our bodies. That way if we overcome our bodies only half the time, we would have a score +66.7% and -33.3%. That way, if Jesus graded on the curve or even used 70% as a passing grade, we would not be too far from passing our test of life with only a 50% success rate. The bad news is Jesus stated, “Be ye perfect, even as your Father in Heaven is perfect.” Does that mean we need to be perfect to enter into heaven when we die? If so then our only chance of going to heaven when we die is to become Born Again so God will view us as perfect due to Christ dying on the cross for our sins. If we then choose to also see ourselves as perfect, it will go a long way toward overcoming sin because we will always become what we believe about ourselves due to the universal law of life.
Jesus not only lived by His teachings, but died by making the ultimate sacrifice at His death.
We marvel at Jesus resurrection, but in fact every human since Adam and Eve are automatically resurrected into the hidden spiritual being they developed all of their life by how well they lived in accordance with the teachings of Jesus. Up until the time of Jesus and the New Covenant we do not know what happed to everyone when they died, but they had to be judged somehow by their conscience. We all got a conscience when Adam and Eve sinned by eating the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Most Christians wish that Adam and Eve had not sinned so we could still be living in the Garden of Eden, but we would also be less than we are because they did not even know they were naked and how to have sex, so mankind would have died off due to no offspring. Their original sin was as planned as Satan and a third of the angels rebelling against God. Just as God planned all of our life and circumstances before we were born and is still in complete control of everything.
