No; but unless you repent you will all perish as they did.
Lk.13:3
Jesus twice repeats a warning. Without repentance there is no eternal life.
It is said that good people don't necessarily get to heaven. Only forgiven people do. This was an obstacle to my atheistic pride for many years. Even then I knew that to seek forgiveness meant acknowledging someone greater than me who could forgive.
Praise be to God I've met the one who can and does forgive. As Saint Paul writes in today's first reading, "If the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead is living in you, then he who raised Jesus from the dead will give life." Rms.8:11
Today my joy is in knowing I have sought forgiveness and been granted it. I have been given life.
Thank you Jesus that even from the Cross you prayed for my forgiveness. I place my trust in you.
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