We, that corporate we of a type you will soon recognize, secretly hoped that after all was said and done and g-d has rolled up the parchment that judgement would go something like this.
God: Well according to eyewitness accounts of your life you were not a good person.
The individual us: (smugly) I would take a second glance at that there record.... Sir.
God: Can I get a angelic record please?
Moments later...
God: OK this has never happened before. Thou all appearances indicate otherwise you have such a good heart that all of your sins and egregious behavior are as chaff when weighed against such purity of soul.
You: (deep reverence) it was rough lord, everyone was against me but...but I was made different, by You of course, to be the unseen
salt of the earth.