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Who Gets To Go To Heaven? |
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What Most People ThinkThere may be as many opinions on who gets to go to heaven as there are people. Here are a few of the most popular ones: Everyone becomes an angel and goes to heaven when they die.Whoever obeys the Ten Commandments will go to heaven. Whoever goes to church will go to heaven. Whoever does more good things than bad things will go to heaven. Whoever believes in God will go to heaven. Whoever has not killed anyone or done anything really bad will go to heaven. Everyone in a Christian household will go to heaven. These opinions may seem OK, but they are all wrong. If none of these are correct, who gets to go to heaven? you may ask. The answer is simple. The people who get to go to heaven are the ones who get right with God by beginning a relationship with Him through His Son Jesus Christ. Unfortunately, understanding how to get right with God became unclear as organized religion developed over the centuries. (Removing the various changes added by organized religion is one of the primary reasons for the existence of this site.) Although religious people have been telling others how to go to heaven for a long time, what they say can be distorted by their opinions. That is why it is vital to go back to the unchanging foundationthe Bible. For example, the apostle Paul refuted the false teachings of his day and told everyone how to get right with God using the first century version of the Interneta letter. This letter is recorded in the Bible as the book of Galatians, and is available for all of us to learn from today. Although it will take a few minutes to explain how you can get to heaven, we hope you believe that learning how is worth a few minutes of your time. Click on the link below. You will soon learn that the real way to get to heaven has nothing in common with the opinions listed above. If you want to learn how to get right with God and go to heaven, click here. This information is based completely on the Bible, and can be verified by reading the Bible yourself. We provide proof that the Bible is the only source of truth elsewhere in this site. If you want to learn how we know the Bible is true, click here. |
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What Do You Mean I Cant Get To Heaven My Way?Yes, a few people out there will use the get right with God link, read everything, and still think they are OK just as they are. We will humor you and tell you why the other methods of getting to heaven will not work. By the way, we discuss cults and false religions (a separate issue) on a different page. Everyone becomes an angel and goes to heaven when they die.This opinion is wrong for at least three reasons:
Clarifying note: Certain angels that sinned have already been cast into hell. Read 2 Peter, chapter 2, verse 4 to see that. Being an angel is no guarantee of getting into heaven. Although the Bible describes some angels as having the appearance of men or having human form, the text makes it obvious that angels are not people. Further, no place in the Bible says that one member of creation changes into another. This is true for animals, people . . . and angels too. To learn more about angels, please see our angels page. If you think that animals change into people, or people will change into angelswhich they do notsee our Creation Versus Evolution page. Nothing in creation changes from what it starts out to be. You probably make a pretty good human, and God will keep you that way. Whoever obeys the Ten Commandments will go to heaven.This opinion is wrong for at least three reasons:
Clarifying Note: Although we have met a number of people who think they have always obeyed the Ten Commandments, a few questions typically reveal that they have broken most of them hundreds of times each. For example, most people broke the commandment honor your father and your mother at least once as a sassy child. People then realize that by the time they finished their teenage years, they broke that Commandment hundreds of times more. If your parents are still living and you ever criticize anything about them, you are still breaking that commandment. We could continue with examples from the other commandments, but the point has been made. People who examine themselves truthfully discover they have broken most of the Ten Commandments at some time in their livesand if you break one once, you are lost. Whoever goes to church will go to heaven.This opinion is wrong for at least three reasons.
Clarifying Note: We have seen people who go to church each week and promptly fall asleep. If they are openly bored with God, will He still invite them into heaven anyway? We do not think so. What if the church they are attending is actually a cult or a false religion? If that is the case, they are in trouble. Dont get us wrongan important part of this site is dedicated to helping people find a good church. Still, going to church will not get you into heaven. Whoever does more good things than bad things will go to heaven.This is also called balance scale judgment, and is one of the most common wrong beliefs. This opinion is wrong for at least three reasons:
Whoever believes in God will go to heaven.This opinion is wrong for at least three reasons:
Sorry, believing in God is not enough to allow you to enter heaven. Whoever has not killed anyone or done anything really bad will go to heaven.This opinion is wrong for at least three reasons:
Everyone in a Christian household will go to heaven.This opinion is wrong for at least three reasons:
Being the member of a family is not the way to get into heaven. OK, So Now What Do I Do?Now that you realize why these other ways to go to heaven will not work, you need to recheck the information attached to the get right with God link. Otherwise, the grim truth is that when you die you will end up somewhere you never intended to end up, where there is weeping and gnashing of teeth. |
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