What makes a good person?

It's a stretch at best. 


2 Maccabees 12:43-46

43 And making a gathering, he sent twelve thousand drachms of silver to Jerusalem for sacrifice to be offered for the sins of the dead, thinking well and religiously concerning the resurrection,

44 (For if he had not hoped that they that were slain should rise again, it would have seemed superfluous and vain to pray for the dead,)

45 And because he considered that they who had fallen asleep with godliness, had great grace laid up for them.

46 It is therefore a holy and wholesome thought to pray for the dead, that they may be loosed from sins.


This is referring to at the end of time, all the righteous will live again after being purged of their sins while dead. Making temple sacrifices was for this purpose...this is what Judas Maccabeus was considering (i.e. thinking about.) 

The verses prior: 

38 So Judas having gathered together his army, came into the city Odollam: and when the seventh day came, they purified themselves according to the custom, and kept the sabbath in the place.

39 And the day following Judas came with his company, to take away the bodies of them that were slain, and to bury them with their kinsmen, in the sepulchres of their fathers.

40 And they found under the coats of the slain some of the donaries of the idols of Jamnia, which the law forbiddeth to the Jews: so that all plainly saw, that for this cause they were slain.

41 Then they all blessed the just judgment of the Lord, who had discovered the things that were hidden.

42 And so betaking themselves to prayers, they besought him, that the sin which had been committed might be forgotten. But the most valiant Judas exhorted the people to keep themselves from sin, forasmuch as they saw before their eyes what had happened, because of the sins of those that were slain. 

So God killed, using the Greek army, the Jews who had fallen back into idol worship as punishment. 

That is all twisted thinking from my POV and nobody can provide reasonable evidence that a God even exists. There might have been a lot of floods happening in certain areas a long time ago, but that doesn't point to that the origin was God. World wide flood would have been from the perspective of the area, they would be confusing a world wide flood with a local floods. They would have no way to know if it was world wide. People were very bad thinkers back then and all were humans, so they made up similar stories to explain what was happening. Human came up with mythical reasons why everything happened at that time, because they had very little understanding of the world. There is no evidence that there was ever a word wide flood and the Noah's Ark story specifically makes no logical sense. A giant flood may have happened, but the fact that cultures that didn't even have access to one another are telling the story means that each separate civilization had survivors to pass on the story, which makes the Noah story clearly not true. Either that or they were ecountering eachother and borrowing from eachother's stories. The oldest flood story is from Ancient Mesopotamia.

There are so many other issues too, such as that the Roman Catholic Church accepts that we evolved from apes. The scientific finding contradict what the Bible says and God never bothers clearing any of this up if God exists, leaving everyone with different understanding of things that conflict with eachother. 

If the God of the Bible proved itself to me, I still wouldn't follow that God btw. Because that God is evil from my POV.