Every year a companies such as Apple, run and staffed by fallible humans, are able to put out tens of millions of very sophisticated products with only a relative few failing to meet customer expectations. The iPhones only work well because there are engineers at Apple who fully understand quantum mechanics and its implications and are able to design and fabricate the computer chips necessary for their phones to work. The entire cell phone network requires an understanding of relativity in order for every station to keep in sync with the orbiting GPS satellites they depend on.
On the other hand, an infinitely powerful God who creates beings in his own image, somehow manages to create these beings in such a way that their own flaws and the actions of a far inferior being by the name of Satan is able to cause the vast majority to end up as failures in Hell.
This is the message that I get from most true believers whether Catholic or Protestant.
I can't believe the liberal/progressive lie that pretty much everyone is going to Heaven because it is some sort of participation trophy for just having lived. However, the other extreme where proper faith is so narrowly defined that few are following it seems to be just as wrongheaded.
I could not agree more.
I think God may be a tad more generous about what He accepts as a heart that belongs to Him, than we do judging based on outward appearances of human actions.
After all, God WANTS to save people, far more than people want to be saved and far more than He wants to condemn them.
It disturbs me greatly when people portray God as a God who almost delights in condemning people to hell, ready to zap them for the least little supposed infraction. The God they portray comes across as a grudging God who saves people because He has to. *Well, they did X, Y, and Z, so I guess they're in.*
We all sin greatly in our hearts even if we can control our actions and since He knows our hearts, better than we know them ourselves, we can't fool God.