Heaven is a perfect place |
When we talk about 'good people', we mean people who aren't perfect, but are more good than bad (no one is perfect!). heaven isn't good, it's perfect - "noting impure will ever enter it" (Revelation 21v27). It's great to know heaven is a perfect place with nothing less than "100% pure" in it. It would be great to live somewhere better than the best we can imagine or experience in this life!
But heaven's perfect standard means that just being "good" isn't good enough to get in. That leaves us all with a problem. We can all think of things we've done, said and thought that are less than perfect. And we can't make up for those things: a small black mark on a white shirt makes it less than 100% clean, however white the rest of it is. People like us have no place in heaven. |
Heaven is being with Jesus |
Jesus said that in heaven he would sit with his friends, eating and drinking (Luke 22v29-30). At the centre of heaven is Jesus' throne, and people there will love and serve him (Revelation 22v3). So if we're good people but don't want Jesus to be our king, we are saying we don't actually want to be in heaven - we'd rather miss out.
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Heaven is open to all |
No one is good enough to go to a perfect heaven. We've all "sinned" - rejected Jesus. But he "died for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you to God" (1 Peter 3v18). Jesus died and was separated from God so that imperfect people don't have to experience that beyond death. He died to offer us his status as God's child, with a place in the family home with God - heaven.
So the way to perfect life forever is open to anyone, "good" or "bad" - if they accept Jesus' death in their place. |
"If knowing Jesus is the only way to heaven... What about other Religions?"
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