Death Bed Conversions

I love the idea of death bed conversions.  It drives a lot of self-righteous people crazy.  There are people who try to wager how they will get to heaven.  Now heaven is a place, a good place, that you can earn by effort in this life, generally keeping the rules and obeying their God as they see God.  The more faithful they are the better the chance to get to heaven which is imagined as time carrying on forever after death.  They figure that nasty people have no chance and they know who the nasty people are.  It is people not like them.  But along comes a teaching in my church that says the nasty person, doing zippo obeying of any rule but their own decadent self, is about to die and on their deathbed, they have a conversion, someone gives them an emergency baptism, as they breath their last.  They go right to heaven.  So unfair.  Well, yes, if the self-righteous were god.  This death bed person would burn.  I suspect that God is a lot more generous than some of us would care to admit.  There is a bible story that says guys got hired to work all day, and guys got hired to work only an hour.  All got the same pay.  It's in the bible.  Just sayin'