by Michael Johnson

Created on: May 03, 2009   Last Updated: May 04, 2009

The parable of the wheat and tares,Jesus' last parable,can only be interpreted as stating that there are simply two completely different types of person,good and evil with no middle ground.This would not of course be to the liking of people who prefer vagueness and silly discussions or even stupid arguments but they just need to grow up.Some people actually seem hell bent on undermining the obvious truth.

Accepting that people are either one thing or the other makes nothing but sense.It explains obvious hopeless cases (which do exist whether some people like it or not) and completely simplifies the question of who goes to heaven and who goes to hell.The very idea of some vague 50% type cut off point is simply ridiculous as it suggests that someone who is 51% good gets to heaven while someone who is 49% good goes to hell.That might suit people who love to cloud issues and rabbit on endlessly, but it is irritating to people who engage brain before operating mouth.

What makes perfect sense is that heaven will be heaven because only good people will be there and hell will be hell because only rotters will be there giving one another a dose of their own medicine.The question of moral fiber is also simplified.People either have it or they don't.That explains the righteous indignation of decent people when pompous asses and holy joes try to look superior. Everybody knows what a jerk is and they keep showing what they are.By their works shall ye know them.

Incidentally,heaven has been made to look like a pie in the sky fantasy or an unattainable objective which requires being super duper squeaky clean,but Jesus said nothing of the kind.Anybody who is not rotten to the core should have nothing to worry about.There's a big difference between being good and being goody goody.A lot of jerks,hypocrites and pompous asses are very goody goody indeed.Heaven really is unattainable to them,though.

In any situation,decent people always do the best they can.Rotters do the worst they can get away with and it isn't always easy to tell the difference.For example,deceitful,whining liars can be very convincing at faking remorse and earnestly swearing never to do it again even after being caught red handed.They can clean up their act for a while to fool trusting souls,but they'll be up to their tricks again the first chance they get.Some poor souls who believe the nonsense that no man is beyond redemption describe this as backsliding,a temporary lapse which can be corrected.In fact it is a return to a rotter's natural behaviour.As dogs return to their vomit so do fools return to their folly.

The appearance of some middle ground is the result of evil people putting up a false front to try to look good and fool people or when good people have moments of weakness which make them look bad.However their character will always be the same.Any apparent changes will be temporary.A leopard never changes its spots.

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