St. Paul and St. John provide lists of people whose unrepentant sins keep them out of Heaven. St. Paul tells us to avoid those leading immoral lives, usurers,or swindlers or idol worshipers, slanderers, drunkards, or the dishonest. Who can’t go to Heaven?
A few lines later, in 1 Cor 6-11, St. Paul is more specific: Do you not know that the unjust will not inherit the Kingdom of God? Do not be deceived; neither fornicators nor idolaters nor adulterers nor boy prostitutes nor sodomites nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor robbers will inherit the Kingdom of God. That is what some of you used to be; but now you have had yourselves washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God.
St.John, in Rev 22:15, also provides a list of those unable to get into Heaven: “These others must stay outside: dogs, fortune-tellers, and fornicators, and murderers, and idolaters, and everyone of false speech and false life.”
So, we see what we must not be. We are blessed with a news media that endlessly tells us who and what Babylon wants us to believe is important, bright, and right. They tell us what idols, both people and ideas, we should worship. They are praised by those whose job it is to do so. They tell us that sins are good, and that God’s Church is bad, because they do not want our souls to get to Heaven.
We understand this truth: In every age, Babylon’s idols are invented and praised to gain revenue and control. Those lusting after false idols fall into every kind of sin.
Those who believe their lies are lost. Those who worship their idols fall farther. Those who greedily profit from them fall farthest.
We are tested continually.
