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How does a person get into Heaven?
Here’s what most people say about what gets you into Heaven:
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 done anything really bad will go
to heaven, or if their good deeds outweigh their bad deeds.
Everyone in a Christian household will go to heaven.Well, these statements may SEEM ok, but they are NOT TRUE. None of these will get a person past those pearly gates.
To get into heaven you must:
1. Admit you are a sinner. Romans 3:23 from the Bible says “For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God”. That means that EVERYONE has sinned.
2. You must then realize that Jesus Christ died on the cross for your sins and took your punishment so that you could have eternal life in Heaven.
3. You must now REPENT of your sins and accept Jesus Christ as your Savior and Lord and to forgive you of all your sins(things you have done wrong). This means that you must totally and sincerely turn from your sins, and simply ask Jesus Christ to be your Savior and Lord and to come into your heart and change it. It doesn’t matter how bad you have been, because Jesus will take you anyway. All you need to do is accept his offer of eternal life.
Here’s a prayer that you can pray if you decide to accept Jesus as Savior:
“God, I recognize that I have not lived my life for You up until now. I have been living for myself and that is wrong. I need You in my life; I want You in my life. I acknowledge the completed work of Your Son Jesus Christ in giving His life for me on the cross at Calvary, and I long to receive the forgiveness you have made freely available to me through this sacrifice. Come into my life now, Lord. Take up residence in my heart and be my king, my Lord, and my Savior. From this day forward, I will no longer be controlled by sin, or the desire to please myself, but I will follow You all the days of my life. Those days are in Your hands. I ask this in Jesus’ precious and holy name. Amen.”
All it takes is faith to accept Jesus as Savior. Faith is simply trusting in Jesus. You trust that your parents will take care of you, right? That’s faith in your parents, however that’s not SAVING faith. That’s just an example of what faith is, so have that same attitude in Jesus. If you sincerely prayed that prayer with all your heart and have accepted Jesus as savior, then just trust that Jesus has forgiven you of your sins and is now your Savior, Friend, and Lord.
Well, you might ask, what if I refuse Jesus’ offer? Well, that’s what I’m going to discuss now.
If you refuse to accept Jesus Christ as Savior and die without accepting him as Savior, then you will die in your sin, and then there will be no hope for you. Instead of spending eternity in Heaven, a place of pure bliss where everyone is happy and there is no suffering and the streets are made of pure gold, you will go to another place. A terrible place.
A PLACE CALLED HELL!God originally made Hell for Satan and his band of Demons(Satan and his demons are former angels who turned against God, so God kicked them out of heaven). God never wanted any of us human beings to go there. But, if you don’t accept Jesus’ offer of Salvation, then Hell is where you will go. God takes no pleasure in this, but this is YOUR CHOICE. You might say “God wouldn’t send anyone to hell”. Well, God doesn’t send you to hell!
YOU SEND YOURSELF TO HELL if you don’t accept Jesus’ offer of Salvation!Here’s what Hell is like just incase you’re wondering:
1. HELL IS A REAL PLACE! IT DOESN’T MATTER IF YOU BELIEVE IN HELL OR NOT! IT’S STILL THERE AND YOU’RE STILL GOING TO HELL IF YOU DON’T ACCEPT JESUS AS SAVIOR!
2. Hell is a place where you will burn forever and ever in a blazing fire. Your suffering will NEVER end, and it NEVER stops. You will never get even one SECOND of rest from the pain. Revelation 14:11 says that “…and they have no rest day nor night…”, that’s not all of the verse, but it’s stating that you will never get any relief from your torment.
3. You will cry and weep forever and ever over your refusal to accept Jesus as Savior, which will add to the torment since that simple prayer would have saved you from this place of never-ending torment.
4. You won’t even get a DROP OF WATER to ease your pain(Luke 16:24). Nothing. Your pain is NEVER eased. NEVER.
So, there you have it. A description of what Hell will be like if you decide to go there by rejecting Jesus.
DON’T LET THIS CHANCE TO ACCEPT JESUS SLIP BY!
You might not get another chance! This might be your last chance to accept Jesus as Savior, since you really don’t know when you’re going to die! Don’t think “Well, I’ll just wait until I get older”, because you could die before then! You could even die tonight even! And if you die without Jesus, then you will go to hell. Proverbs 27:1 says “Boast not thyself of to morrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth.” So, you see, you don’t know if you will have another chance to get saved, so heed this warning now!Here’s the Salvation Prayer again that I put up earlier that you can pray if you want to accept Jesus as Savior.
“God, I recognize that I have not lived my life for You up until now. I have been living for myself and that is wrong. I need You in my life; I want You in my life. I acknowledge the completed work of Your Son Jesus Christ in giving His life for me on the cross at Calvary, and I long to receive the forgiveness you have made freely available to me through this sacrifice. Come into my life now, Lord. Take up residence in my heart and be my king, my Lord, and my Savior. From this day forward, I will no longer be controlled by sin, or the desire to please myself, but I will follow You all the days of my life. Those days are in Your hands. I ask this in Jesus’ precious and holy name. Amen.”
You must pray in Jesus’ name! If you don’t do that, then the prayer will not reach God’s ears! Sorry, but I’m not the one who makes the rules. This applies to every prayer you pray, not just the Prayer of Salvation! If you pray and don’t say “In Jesus’ name I pray”, then the prayer will not reach the ears of God.
I can’t explain everything, so I will leave you with two good Bible-Based websites to visit if you have internet access:
Bible.com – The Bible Online, Bible Prayer Room, Christian Community, Market Place and more.. (Good website, it has the Bible on here, which you can read, and it also explains a few things).
Mega site of Bible studies and information (GREAT site about the Bible, has TONS of information about prayer, Jesus, the Bible, and lots of other topics.)
However, you must not rely on these sites alone. You must also find yourself a good Bible-Based Church so that you can be with other Christians. Also, Jesus must be your primary teacher, but these sites can help you a lot in learning more about Jesus and about how to be a good Christian. I, personally, have gotten lots of good information off of these sites. However, these sites do NOT replace Praying and Studying the Bible, so you still have to Pray and Study the Bible, but again, these sites can be used as a HELP, but NOT as your primary source.
Alright, I pray that you will accept Jesus as your Savior and Lord and that those sites will help you in your walk with Jesus, should you accept him as Savior.
May God richly Bless your life.
i cryed me eyes out i repent in lord jesus name 😥
Can’t beat that good old time christian fearmongering.
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watch george carlin if you need to know how to get to heaven
do anything you want as long as you don’t harm another person.. and.. that’s it 🙂
but god needs our money harr!et, if nobody gives him money, he’ll send everyone to hell
:O i don’t wanna go to hell.. hmm i better give all my money to the church.
lol
yeh and NOBODY likes people who come and shove their faith down your throat in this manner nomatter what it is, nothing wrong with discussing it but thats shoving it ontop of you and i used to beleive all this when i was a kid then started drugs and realised that theres so many possibilities, even proper ministers and shit do it through kindness not this fearmongering shit
to get to heaven you need to.. take drugs and give money to charity
Everyone is going to hell unless they accept Jesus as their saviour? What everyone, even if they have never heard about christianity or die very young? “Hell is a real place”? How do you know? Have you met anyone who has been there?
So all muslims, jews, sikhs, hindus, buddhists, hare krishnas are going to hell because they follow the wrong religion. Yeah some good advert for Christianity you are moron!
to get heaven you go down the M25 down to yarmouth……oh wait, thats haven holidays…..bugger
@ElectroMJ 866207 wrote:
to get to heaven you need to.. take drugs and give money to charity
although not quite explicitly stated as such by the Vatican it does seem like doing this (provided drugs don’t make you do anthing evil/sketchy) will at least keep you out of the hot place and could get you a less arduous rôle in Purgatory.
I worked out a while back I have just narrrowly escaped eternal damnation due to saving a runaway pram from rolling into the path of a busy road and a bus in London (this was when I smoked over 20 cigarettes daily and was less fit than I am in my 40s) and some other good deeds.
Recently I started listening to Radio Maria Nederland, initially because I was testing a radio receiver and was curious about a strong signal in Dutch on the medium frequency (I wanted to learn Dutch anyway) – their content is sufficiently interesting (better than Hilversum) that I regularly listen when there aren’t any Dutch pirates on air or I’m not listening to EDM.
Interestingly it appears the Dutch do not make as clear a distinction between “daily and mortal sin”; so all of it is to some extent negotiable if you confess them and haven’t done something really bad like terrorism or mass murder. Non problematic drug use appears to be relegated to “kattekwaad” (the amount of sin allowed to a pet cat or a young human!). It did also come across that Dutch people who got to Heaven would willingly volunteer to help those in Purgatory repent their sins. BTW Purgatory is shared with many Muslims, and it is very similar to the Scandinavian Valhalla.
So it would have to be a big place and I somehow got the idea in my head that folk would travel to the various parts of it by a light metropolitan railway network; some bits would be like the Underground in London and others more like Europe – although they wouldn’t be the best or most reliable trains such as the TGV or those new German ones, nor the steam trains some people like to look at / travel on. Those would be only available to the folk in Heaven!
Added to which everything on wheels in Purgatory would be limited to 25 km/h max speed to prevent collisions (as after all you have an eternity to do things in; there would be no point rushing around).
Thus I could repent my sins in NL; but I always get “door mijn grote schuld” / “door de Heilige Geist” en “door een defecte trein” (which happens nearly as much in the UK) confused.
Door een defecte trein
Door een defecte trein,
iederen mag hier overstappen –
Jesus Christus, Alleluia! [1]
Wij zijn toch niet alleen.
want hiermee zitten vele beren!
Ursus Arctos, Alleluia. [2]
Wij vragen naar de klusjeman
Hoveel langer moeten we wachten
voor de bus ; hij zei maar
“ik weet niet (sorry),
zingen door met dit mooi lied” [3]
Miserere per omnibus, Alleluia!
Hij is toch hele druk
met deze vaten te vervoeren –
Spiritus Sanctus, Alleluia! [4]
Vol jenever, benzine, mazoet en petroleum
Achtung! Hochentzündlich! Explosionsgefahr! [5]
Wij moeten even wachten maar
mag niet te roken een sigaar
want ‘t is echt het beleid van God
Door de Hemel staat er rookverbod!
Dus goede mensen weten wel
Wie rookt hier gaat straaks naar de Hel! [6]
Defense de fumer! Alleluia! [7]
[1] The train is a DMU/EMU where the engine bit is also a passenger carriage (usually below) -if it goes kaputt all the passengers must get off and use an alternative method of transport whilst the offending carriage is decoupled and shunted. Although Jesus can see all this on his CCTV. it would still be polite to tell Him the group would be late for chapel and to start some of their prayers anyway…
[2] They are wandering in the equivalent of a North European wood on Earth; being in the afterlife the bears are no risk to them (as this choir/youth group are well behaved and don’t go around mocking bald Jewish guys they might encounter). There are of course many other bears who would be present the afterlife; but those ones would either stay in the equivalent for their country or remain on the train (they would have got their own carriage as would any other animals being transported) as they prefer warmer weather.
[3] Although I may have been supplied with an electric trolley to haul the barrels equipped with both VHF and UHF radiotelephones /and did try to contact the bus control; buses often use MPT1327 protocol, the control channel is currently garbled by atmospherics and the antenna cable at the repeater mast has been incorrectly sealed allowing weather to get in – so this kind of radio would not work at all. The 25 km/h speed limit for everything in Purgatory would make it worthwhile for the choir/youth group to walk as far as they could to the next station anyway..
[4] Dutch Gin, petrol(UK)/gasoline(US), paraffin(UK)/kerosene(US) and heavy fuel oil; in 200 litre barrels, transported from one convent / feminist workers co-operative to another so they can fix the train (although they are most certainly going to be drinking some of it – how much and in what combination is unknown and it is impolite to ask them). Even though the sisters could easily haul the lot themselves, as a good Catholic male you would still have to do this for them.
[5] Especially if any of the bungs were insecure or some of contents of these barrels have been split into the trolley during loading (some of the Gin particularly may have been “diverted” by the workers even during working hours).
[6] See above – they shouldn’t be smoking at their young age anyway; and what else do you think could happen? Such an incident would be equally annoying for those who were innocent in causing the explosion; they would get regenerated to Purgatory like in a computer game and then have to start all the tasks again…
[7] To warn any Belgians; who might still be tempted to smoke.
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