Good people will go to hell without Jesus. You can be Mother Teresa and devote your life to helping others and still go to hell. How is this? The actual problem is sin. A perfect God will not be in the presence of sin. If you sin once, you are guilty of sin. NO ONE can live a sinless life, and because of that, we deserve death. God is just and requires a punishment for sin. However, God is loving and merciful and so He sent us an out. Jesus came to earth as a man, lived a sinless life, and was sacrificed for us to pay the price for our sin. He then conquered death and rose from the dead. The price of sin is death and so it required a blood sacrifice. Jesus also had to live a sinless life because God required a perfect sacrifice. He willingly laid down His life in our place. The thing that separates’ Christianity from other religions is that we cannot earn our way into heaven. Christianity isn’t about good works. The price has already been paid. Our salvation is set in Christ’s finished work on the cross. There is nothing we can do to add to it.