“Suppose you start out saying what many people actually think Christianity says – namely, that if you’re good you go to heaven, and if you’re bad you go to hell. Do you see what that does? It voids the work of Christ. The bible says that only his reconciliation ultimately matters, that the world the Father loves is the world he sees in the risen life of his only begotten Son. But if that’s true, then he’s stopped counting the world’s goodnesses and badnesses as the world holds them and sees them only as vindicated and reconciled in Jesus. If you start counting them again as they are in us, you welsh on the whole idea of Christ alone as the resurrection and the life.”

Capon, Robert F. Between Noon and Three: Romance, Law, and the Outrage of Grace. 1997.