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 Posted: Thu Aug 21, 2008 6:29 pm
Hello I was wonder how everyone feels about other religions and how there is only one way to Heaven and that is through Jesus Christ.
First off I'd like to know how do you get into Heaven?
What makes a person good or bad?
And if there is only one way to Heaven and that is through Jesus Christ isn't that a very BIG chunk of the human population? How does that help Heaven in the battle against hell if so many soldiers are fighting with Hell's army?
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Posted: Fri Aug 22, 2008 6:50 am
A few things:
1 - The way to Heaven is through Jesus, however I hope Heaven isn't the only reason a person would be Christian. I hope they would just want to serve their Creator and God. But, as I said, the only way to Heaven is through Jesus. Believe in Him with all your heart and FOLLOW HIM. (The reason why I emphasis "follow Him" is because we are called to do more than just believe. Even Satan and his demons know that Jesus is Lord and that God is the Creator. They just ignore this fact and follow Satan instead.
If you want Bible verses for anything I say in here, just ask and I'll find them for you.
2 - Every person is born into sin, thus God gave us a set of rules to live by (outlined in the Bible) so that we can become good and holy. If we live by his rules, but don't follow him, then we're good people. But we're only made holy when Jesus cleanses us, so without Him you can't become holy. Does that make sense?
3 - God isn't asking us to follow Him because there's a war between him and Satan. Satan made his choices and that's that. The war isn't about defeating Satan. The war is about us, even if that seems selfish for us humans to say so. God created us to have a certain kind of relationship with him. He's our God, Creator, father, friend..and much more than that, too. So when we strayed away because Satan got a foothold in our hearts, God did everything he could to make it so we can be with Him again (hence Jesus coming and dying for us). Course He could have just "snapped his fingers" so-to-speak and we would have been perfect again, but God is a man of his word. He made us with freedom of will, so if we don't want him he's going to respect that.
Yes, a large portion of the earth's population isn't Christian. Along with that fact, a lot of "Christians" aren't Christian. They think Christianity is all about going to church, being good, and saying Jesus is Lord. But, as Jesus said in the Bible, not all who call him "Lord, Lord!" will be accepted into heaven. They have to believe it in their hearts that He's Lord, and they don't. They just make-believe it. It's all in their head. So that's a whole lot of people who aren't Christian.
So, Heaven isn't about God trying to defeat Satan in this battle you speak of. It's a reward for those who believe in their hearts that God is the Creator and Jesus is Lord. Anyone who doesn't follow Jesus won't get this reward. And most people know about Christianity, so they know this. They're just so caught up in the lies that Satan spins (ex: Jesus isn't real; there is no God; anyone who believes in God will go to Heaven; etc) that they're blindsided and ignore the truth.
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Posted: Tue Dec 16, 2008 11:05 am
What makes a person good or bad?
The Bible says that only God is good. If you want to be good, then you have to be completely sinless, and this is not feasible.
Romans 3:23
For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.
That's why we cannot earn our way to Heaven. We must rely on the only mediator between man and God, the God-man, Jesus Christ. We should have faith in him, and enter into a covenant relationship with him.
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