Can A Good Moral Person Be Saved Without Jesus?
1. Cornelius was not only a good moral person (Acts 10:22), he was even a very religious person (10:2). And yet, apart from becoming a Christian, he was lost (Acts 11:13-14). The same was true for the zealous and conscientious Saul and Tarsus (Acts 23:1; Galatians 1:14). And same can be said for the Ethopian Eunuch (Acts 8:27-28); and the rich young ruler (Mark 10:17-23). 2. The issue isn’t how much or little you have sinned, but that you have sinned (Romans 3:23). Even one sin constitutes a debt that no man can remove or atone for though his own efforts (Luke 7:36-50). 3. It is a very arrogant claim to suggest that one’s own personal goodness has the same ethical merit as the shed blood of God’s own Son.
