The "good person" test -- for others

Evangelist Ray Comfort is well-known for presenting unbelievers with "the good person" test, asking them if they've ever broken any of the Ten Commandments in order to demonstrate that everyone is a sinner and "there is no one who does good, no, not one," (Romans 3:10-12, Psalm 14:1-3).

So many people, though, still don't believe that they're sinners even after being confronted with their sin. Satan has blinded them with self-love.

But if unbelievers today in places like America are less likely to acknowledge their own evil nature, they might be more likely to admit the evil nature in the people around them. While they think of themselves as pretty good, if not excellent, moral creatures, or at the least "good enough," they just might recognize that the people in their lives -- even those close to them -- are wickedly selfish at heart.

It's common to hear people today say that they've been betrayed by close family members and friends, that they have no one they can count on, or that they find other people so sickening, they think they might prefer the company of animals to humans.

Of course, again, they're fine in their own book. Other people are the problem, the cause of their unhappiness.

Those, then, who believe in something beyond the natural, including life after death in Heaven, but have so far rejected Christ as their Lord and Savior, or have made Him into a Christ of their own liking versus what the Bible teaches, can be asked how they would like to live in eternity with the people around them, just as they are, and if they think it would be Heaven, as well as how would there be unity and peace with people continuing to be in disagreement? People can sometimes "agree to disagree" with a little success so that they don't openly argue over whatever they fail to share, but disagreement necessarily means division and distance. Or do such people think that, for it to be Heaven, they'd have to be there alone, since they're the only truly "good person" that they know and like?

In Christ, believers yield our wills, which are governed by our faulty, limited individual sin natures, to One who is perfect in every way, and so is qualified to rule over us absolutely, for the good of us all, including to bring us true happiness and satisfaction. Among Jesus' last instructions to His disciples were to love each other (John 13:34) and to have unity in spirit (John 17:22-23), and in Him, we can enter into God's Kingdom, the Kingdom of Heaven, and remain in and enjoy true love and spiritual unity with God and other human beings.