ksazma posted:seignet posted:ONLY THE RIGHTEOUS GETS TO THE HEAVEN, right of passage is not for everyone. It doan matter wah religion a person is.
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I would have to disagree with the first part of your statement brother seignet. God is holy and perfect. Heaven, His dwelling place, is holy and perfect, too according to Psalm 68:5; Nehemiah 1:5 and Revelation 11:19. In Romans 3:10, "there is none righteous, no not one." No human being is holy and perfect enough for heaven. The people we call "good" are not good at all compared to the sinless perfection of God. If God allowed sinful humans to enter the perfection of heaven, it would no longer be perfect. What standard should be used to determine who is "good enough?" God's standard is the only one that counts, and He has already ruled. Romans 3:23 says that "all have sinned and fallen short of God's glory." And the payment for that sin is eternal separation from God, Romans 6:23.
Sin has to be punished, or God is not just, 2 Thessalonians 1:6. The judgment we face at death is simply God bringing our accounts up to date and passing sentence on our crimes against Him. We have no way to make our wrongs right. Our good does not outweigh our bad. One sin ruins perfection, just as one drop of arsenic in a glass of water poisons the whole glass.
So God became man and took our punishment upon Himself. Jesus was God in the flesh. He lived a sinless life of obedience to His Father according to Hebrews 4:15. He had no sin, yet at the cross He took our sin and made it His own. Once He paid the price for our sin, we could be declared holy and perfect, 2 Corinthians 5:21. When we confess our sin to Him and ask His forgiveness, He stamps "Paid in Full" over our life of selfishness, lust, and greed, Acts 2:38; 3:19 and 1 Peter 3:18.
When we stand before God one day, we cannot beg entrance to heaven based on our own merit. We have none to offer. Compared to God's standard of holiness, not one of us is good enough. But Jesus is, and it is by His merit we can enter heaven. First Corinthians 6:9-11 says, "Do you not know that wrongdoers will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor men who have sex with men nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God." The sacrifice of Jesus covers it all.
The people who go to heaven are all alike in one way: they are sinners who have placed their faith in Jesus, John 1:12; Acts 16:31; Romans 10:9. They have recognized their need for a Savior and humbly accepted God's offer of forgiveness. They have repented of their old ways of living and set their course to follow Christ, you can find this in Mark 8:34; John 15:14. They have not attempted to earn God's forgiveness but have served him gladly from grateful hearts, Psalm 100:2. The kind of faith that saves a soul is one that transforms a life according to James 2:26 and 1 John 3:9-10 and rests fully on the grace of God.
PS: seignet I'm not a theologian nor am I a preacher so I encourage you to research the scripture references I provided to find understand and truth. God Bless.