Looking at these beliefts, we can see five major categories regarding how to get to heaven.
1- Most believe that hard work and wisdom will lead to ultimate fulfillment, whether that is unity with god (Hinduism, Buddhism, and Baha’i) or freedom and independence (Scientology, Jainism).
2- Others, like Unitarianism and Wicca, teach the afterlife is whatever you want it to be, and salvation is a non-issue because the sin nature doesn’t exist.
3- A few believe either the afterlife doesn’t exist or it’s too unknowable to consider.
4- Derivatives of the worship of the Christian-Judeo God generally hold that faith in God and/or Jesus and the accomplishment of various deeds, including baptism or door-to-door evangelism, will ensure the worshiper will go to heaven.
5- Only Christianity teaches that salvation is a free gift of God through faith in Christ (Ephesians 2:8–9), and no amount of work or effort is necessary or possible to get to heaven.
based on the article by gotquestions.org
For us Christians, we believe there is heaven but we are not sure of how it looks like but we have this blessed hope and assurance that it exists. And heaven for us is a realm or Kingdom of God, and since it is His Kingdom, He owns it. If He owns it, He will get to decide who will enter right? we are not the ones to decide. Now God who is a holy God in His holy place will always maintain holiness in His Kingdom. That is the reality of God and we cannot change. He is immutable. If he adjusts to be unholy like us then He is not God anymore.. And all of us humans are unholy and not good enough to enter heaven. none of us.. even the level of Mother Theresa will not enter heaven, because no person in this world has that truly clean slate. Maybe a small sin will not justify us, all of us have records be it a very small sin or big sin. That is why throughout history especially recorded in the Old Testament, no one has ever perfected the law except when Jesus came. God Himself went down on earth to save us because we cannot save ourselves. We cannot give ourselves the ticket to heaven. It is only by the righteousness of Jesus Christ that we can get accepted in heaven. Not by our own good works but by Jesus Himself alone. We are hidden in the glory of Jesus when we enter heaven. This is the mystery of what #joycepring was actually asserting in her interview and we as Christians should humbly present this to the world. That Jesus is the only way to heaven not in an arrogant way but in way that they will understand the love of Christ for them no matter what they have done in their lives. Because if we accept Christ in our lives, it means we are resigning to His will and so we will no longer live according to the flesh but in Spirit. Yes we will still have struggles, we will still sin, but we will have conviction, we will not remain in sin but rather we will repent and turn back to God and ask for guidance so we will be taken away from that path to sin.. and yes, if we don't have Jesus, we will go to hell. There is no other way but Him. Heaven is owned by God. He gets to decide who will enter. And His decision relies on the condition of Holiness that we can only find in Jesus.
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