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Anonymous asked in Society & CultureReligion & Spirituality · 1 decade ago

what constitutes a good person, will it be his deeds''?

his or hers personality' can it be kindness, or fairness in judgement.

your views please.

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
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    One can become more pleasing to God by praying the rosary regularly. See the following promises, especially #4.

    The rosary is explained here:

    http://www.sancta.org/rosary/how.html

    The fifteen promises of Mary to Christians who recite the rosary:

    1. Whoever shall faithfully serve me by the recitation of the Rosary shall receive signal graces.

    2. I promise my special protection and the greatest graces to all those who shall recite the Rosary.

    3. The Rosary shall be a powerful armor against Hell, it will destroy vice, decrease sin, and defeat heresies.

    4. It will cause virtue and good works to flourish; it will obtain for souls the abundant mercy of God; it will withdraw the hearts of men from the love of the world and its vanities and will lift them to the desire of eternal things. Oh, that souls would sanctify themselves by this means.

    5. The soul which recommends itself to me by the recitation of the Rosary, shall not perish.

    6. Whoever shall recite the Rosary devoutly, applying himself to the consideration of its sacred mysteries, shall never be conquered by misfortune. God will not chastise him in His justice, he shall not perish by an unprovided death; if he be just, he shall remain in the grace of God and become worthy of eternal life.

    7. Whoever shall have a true devotion for the Rosary shall not die without the Sacraments of the Church.

    8. Those who are faithful to recite the Rosary shall have during their life and at their death the light of God and the plenitude of His graces; at the moment of death, they shall participate in the merits of the saints in Paradise.

    9. I shall deliver from Purgatory those who have been devoted to the Rosary.

    10. The faithful children of the Rosary shall merit a high degree of glory in Heaven.

    11. You shall obtain all you ask of me by the recitation of the Rosary.

    12. All those who propagate the Holy Rosary shall be aided by me in their necessities.

    13. I have obtained from my Divine Son that all the advocates of the Rosary shall have for intercessors the entire Celestial Court during their life and at the hour of death.

    14. All who recite the Rosary are my sons, and brothers of my only Son, Jesus Christ.

    15. Devotion to my Rosary is a great sign of predestination.

    God bless!

    Dave

  • 1 decade ago

    Depends on loads of things. Can a Nobel Peace Prize winning atheist be considered a good person by theists?

    Or will he be considered fuel for the eternal flame despite his Nobel Peace Prize?

    The Pope considers Tony Blair a good enough person to be welcomed into the Roman Catholic Church. The relatives of people whom Tony Blair sent to die in Iraq might have other ideas.

  • 1 decade ago

    There are different actions and standards that people use to say one person is a "good" person while another person is a "bad" person.

    For instance someone who sees a wallet fall out of the back pocket of a person and picks it up and returns it to them would be a good person while someone who saw a person's wallet sticking half way out of their pocket and bumped up against them and stole their wallet would be bad.

    Most of the things that the Bible says are "good" or "bad" most people agree with although if they have a particular sin that they like to engage in like fornication then they probably think that if a person meets all of the other standards they consider to be good then that person is a "good" person.

    When it comes to God, all of us are guilty sinners because He judges us on our thoughts, actions, failure to do thing that are good, and it's unlikely that anyone has really loved God with all of their heart, soul, mind and strength every day of their life or always loved their neighbor as they would want to be treated.

    So a person who is born again by God's Spirit is a recipient of the perfect "goodness" of Jesus and they are declared "not guilty" but righteous before God. The Holy Spirit starts changing the character of a person on the inside so that they become more like Jesus in character and they become "good" people over time as God changes them. A person like Gandhi might seem like a very good person based upon human standards but I can guarantee that he broke many of God's laws during his lifetime and on the day of judgment he will be declared "guilty" because he rejected the payment that God made for his sins by denying Christ as his Savior.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    a good person is someone with morals and a code of conduct follow the ten commandments and your a good person. If you dont want to then by all means go kill someone or steal or tell a lie to a fireman about where the fire is. Dont want to then that makes you a good person its all about how you treat others

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    The prayers of a good person are his deeds.

  • 1 decade ago

    Ultimately it is deeds that matter the most. Good intentions/personality/whatever have never outlasted a person.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    " Faith "

    Rom 3:19-31 Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God. Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin. But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets; Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe: for there is no difference: For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God; Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus: Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God; To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus. Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay: but by the law of faith. Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law. Is he the God of the Jews only? is he not also of the Gentiles? Yes, of the Gentiles also: Seeing it is one God, which shall justify the circumcision by faith, and uncircumcision through faith. Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law.

    Rom 3:31 Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law.

  • 1 decade ago

    That is a human evaluation so all it takes is for a person to consider another person as "good" for any reason.

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  • There's more than one kind of good.

  • 1 decade ago

    According to religious people here, it depends on whether you bow down to "the Lord".

    Ignorance.

    I dont know yet.Ask me on judgement day.If it were going by who has sinned and who hasnt we all go to Hell!!

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