Judgment Day, Politics, and the Truth About Heaven and Hell

My friends, a congressional hearing this week took a ridiculous turn when Rep. LaMonica McIver asked Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons if he believed he was going to hell. According to McIver, Lyons has “blood on his hands” and needs to be concerned about Judgment Day.

It was political theater, yes. But it also highlighted one of the most important questions a human being can ask: What determines where we spend eternity?

The incidents referenced were tragic law enforcement encounters in Minneapolis involving Renée Good and Alex Pretti. These situations deserve careful scrutiny and sober discussion. But reckless accusations of “murder” and eternal damnation are something else entirely.

The leap from policy disagreement to declaring someone hell-bound is not oversight — it’s spectacle.

But here’s the deeper issue: If we’re going to invoke Judgment Day, we should at least understand what Scripture actually says about it.

The Bible teaches that all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God. That includes members of Congress. That includes ICE agents. That includes you. And it includes me. God’s standard isn’t political affiliation or chosen career path. The standard is perfection—and none of us meets it. Not even close.

The question isn’t whether someone works for ICE. The question is who paid for our sin.

Christianity doesn’t teach that heaven is earned by career choices or avoided by public shaming. It teaches that Jesus paid the debt we could not pay. The wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life through Christ (Romans 6:23).

On Judgment Day, the only question that ultimately matters is this: Are you paying for your sin? Or did Jesus?

Are you standing on your résumé? Your political tribe? Your moral comparisons to others?

Or are you standing on the finished work of Jesus Christ, the Savior of the world?

Conservative, not bitter.
Todd

⚖️ Heated exchange between Rep. LaMonica McIver and Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons
🔥 Accusation of “blood on your hands” during congressional hearing
📹 Minneapolis ICE incidents involving Renée Good and Alex Pretti
📚 Definition of murder versus lawful use of force
⛪ What the Bible actually teaches about Judgment Day
💬 The real question of eternity: Who paid your sin debt?

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My friends, teachers in San Francisco are on strike because a 10% raise apparently isn’t enough. They also want 100% premium health coverage for themselves and their families. The district says it simply can’t afford that. The average salary there is $103,000.

Meanwhile, only about half of students are proficient in math and English. I fully understand not every problem rests on a teacher’s shoulders, but when we use the word teacher, we’re implying learning is happening. If only half the kids are learning, should we ignore the results and just write bigger checks? Compensation follows performance. Some teachers are worth far more than $103,000. Others aren’t worth a fraction of that. The solution isn’t entitlement or strikes. It’s results — and rewarding those who produce them.

When Judgment Day language gets thrown around in a congressional hearing, most people either cheer or roll their eyes.

But beneath the political theater sits a question none of us actually escapes: Is there accountability beyond this life?

On today’s Toddcast, I laid out three fundamentally different approaches to answering that question: atheist, agnostic, and Christian believer.

The atheist says there is no God. Not “I’m unsure.” Not “I haven’t decided.”

It’s a declaration: no Creator, no ultimate Judge, no transcendent authority.

The agnostic says, “I don’t know.” Maybe there is. Maybe there isn’t. The question remains unresolved.

The Christian believer says something entirely different: There is a God. He has revealed Himself. And we will one day give an account of our lives to Him.

Those are not small distinctions. They are competing explanations of reality.

If the atheist is right, then Judgment Day talk is emotional manipulation. “Blood on your hands” is senseless rhetoric. Justice is consensus. Morality is personal preference.

If the agnostic is right, then we’re living in uncertainty about the most important question imaginable. We cross our fingers and hope it all works out.

But if the Christian claim is true, then accountability is not merely political.

It is eternal.

Everything we observe in the universe operates on cause and effect. Effects require causes. Order points to intelligence. Information points to a mind.

R.C. Sproul, in his book The Myth of Chance, made a simple but profound point: chance is not an entity. It has no power. It produces nothing. Saying something happened “by chance” describes probability—it does not explain origin.

Chance doesn’t build cathedrals, let alone author DNA or write the moral law into the human heart.

The atheist tells us the most complex, ordered system imaginable—the universe itself—simply happened. “Nothing” went “bang” and when it did, “everything” was created. Think about that nonsense for a moment.

From these competing worldviews flows everything we believe about politics, justice, and life itself.

But here’s the truth: no one actually lives like reality is accidental.

We cry out for justice. We demand accountability. We insist that actions matter.

But if there is no God—and no absolute truth—why would any of those things matter at all?

Which brings us back to Judgment Day.

The real divide in this country isn’t political. And it isn’t partisan. It’s not really even cultural.

It’s spiritual.

Is reality an accident? Or was it carefully put together by a loving God who will one day execute final justice?

You can mock the question. You can politicize it. You can even shrug at it.

But you cannot shrug your way past it forever.

And if the Christian claim is true, this matters more than anything else.

We will one day, my friends, give an account of our lives to God. Will you be able meet His standards through the grace of Jesus or will you try to explain why you were a good enough person on your own?