The Road to Hell is Paved With Good Intentions

By Dr Larry Robinson

Today in the United States and elsewhere, people who label themselves faithful Christians approve and promote values that conflict with Biblical commandments because they insist that they are reflecting humanistic compassion and caring. Furthermore, they state that “surely God approves of their views and actions because they have good intentions and a sincere heart”.
This book examines that premise as to whether it aligns with God’s word.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lulu.com
• Release date: Mar 20, 2021
• ISBN: 9781678085650

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The Road to Hell Is Paved with Good Intentions:  Examining the Question of Whether Good Intentions Are Enough to Please God

By Dr Larry Robinson

1st Edition

Copyright © 2021 [Larry Robinson]

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Preface

In preparing to write this book, two quotations came to mind.

The more things change, the more they remain the same. Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr (Les Guêpes, July 1848)

"History merely repeats itself. It has all been done before. Nothing under the sun is truly new.   Sometimes people say, Here is something new!  Actually, it is old; nothing is ever truly new."  Ecclesiastes 1:9-10 (New Living Translation).

Both speak to the heart of timeless truths.  Every generation thinks it is beholding societal changes like no one else has ever experienced.  But the truth of mankind’s history from a perspective of God, is that we continue repeating the same patterns of behavior.  They are just perceived differently because mankind always lives in the present tense.

One of those human perceptions is that good intentions with a sincere heart pleases God and makes us good people.  Today in the United States and elsewhere, people who label themselves faithful Christians approve and promote values that conflict with Biblical commandments because they insist that they are reflecting humanistic compassion and caring.  Furthermore, they state that surely God approves of their views and actions because they have good intentions and a sincere heart. 

This book examines that premise as to whether it aligns with God’s word.

About the Author

For more than 40 years, I have been answering God’s call to ministry. From the Streets of South-Central Los Angeles to villages in remote parts of the world including South Africa, Taiwan, the Caribbean, Mexico, and the Philippines. I have served in whatever duties that God directs me, including Apologist, Prophet, Pastor-Teacher, Missionary, and Evangelist to the churches and the nations.

Attended Life Bible College (Angelus Temple- Los Angeles CA)

Licensed by International Church of the Foursquare Gospel (1987)

Ordained by Somerhaven International Ministry (1992)

Missionary with Ex-Mormons for Jesus (1982-1986)

Doctor of Divinity from American Fellowship of Churches

I would like to acknowledge some of the mentors I have had who are/were giants in the Christian faith.  Rev Bernard Stadler (my grandfather), Dr. Jack Hayford (Chancellor of Kings College, past President International Church of the Foursquare Gospel), Dr. Walter Martin (Apologist-Bible Answer Man), Dr. Nathaniel Van Cleave (Foundations of Pentecostal Theology), Dr. Paul Risser (past President of International Church of the Foursquare Gospel), Marian Bodine (Christian Apologist and Missionary)

Dr Robinson is the author of 30 Days of Wisdom from the Book of Proverbs and the Myth of the Moderate Democrat.

Dr Robinson currently resides with his wife and ministry partner, Wanda Robinson in Sun City, Arizona.

Chapter 1- Asking the Eternal Questions

One of the most often asked questions I get by both non-Christians and people who say they are Christians is:

If God sees that I have good intentions towards others and I sincerely desire to love God, won’t He be pleased with this and let me into heaven?

Human reason and worldly logic conclude that God must be reasonable to our sense of