"But I doubt you'd see anyone who has spent any time in a church that does even rudimentary catechesis ever say something about good people earning their way to heaven with good behavior and bad people being sent to hell as punishment for bad behavior."

Um. That's not what I said. I said:

"Mainly, that God's justice is perfect, God will send the sinners to hell and the righteous to heaven and it's not really possible for us, as mere mortals, to tell which is which."

This isn't about behavior it's about the person's standing with God at the moment of death. Did they accept Christ and repent? Did they just *say* that they did? And that acceptance goes beyond some ceremonial act. it could be that one finds that one must live their life differently after accepting God. I certainly found this to be the case. The acceptance could take a form that you or I might not even know about.

The example of the criminals from the crucifixion goes along with the whole point of this post-- we don't know who should be punished becuase we are not God. A person could seem like a criminal and still go to heaven. A person could be a priest who has always done "good deeds" and still go to hell.

I should have acknowledged, though, that all people are sinners.

(Also, I think you come across as condescending. Just a little, it's possible to share knowledge without doing that. )