Heaven Is Transactional, Right?

TRUMP "I just want to end it. If i can save seven thousand people a week from getting killed, that's pretty good. I want to get to heaven if possible. Im hearing Im not doing well. I hear Im at the bottom of the totem pole. If I can get to heaven, this will be one of the reasons" pic.twitter.com/8RaYmN8ue0

— NEO (@Neolibrium) August 19, 2025

This is my problem with traditional soteriology: no matter how you slice it, it always comes down to a purchase, a transaction, a quid pro quo. You will cite to me the parable of the sheep and the goats. But that proves my point: there was no transaction. “Lord, when did we see you?,” both groups ask. And that’s the point: what they did is what mattered, not why. And it only took one: one person helped, or ignored. It’s not a scorecard, a tally sheet, a race to the top. The race is to the bottom: the first of all will be last of all and servant of all. “When did we see you?” You were too busy serving to look; and that’s good.

Now, are the sheep buying their way into heaven? If it was transactional, that might well cancel their credit. But the lesson is that the best life is lived helping others when you are able to. A visit; a cup of water; some food. Nothing much, but see it as everything. As the only thing. See as God sees.

And remember the widow’s mite.

But forget about the transaction. The transaction means nothing. It’s how you treat others that matters. It’s whether or not you serve them that measures the quality of your life. Of all our lives.

Nobody walks alone.