The motive is the key. Do you do good things because you want to look good or do you do them because you want God to be pleased with your life.
To me, both motives are selfish. The only difference is the size of the payoff. Yet, according to what many are saying here, some person who does good deeds for others because it's the right thing to do, and without expectation of reward, but can't get over conceptual hangups over the veracity of multi-thousand year old culturally biased texts open to much interpretation, is consigned to eternal damnation and torture. I can't reconcile that in my head.
Real World - what's the difference?
Please explain what you mean.
Assume that 100% of people do the right thing for "selfish" motives. How would we know? What would be different?
