Do You Have To Believe In God To Go To Heaven?

 

The Most High God Summons Everyone To Say They Are Sorry

God is all together righteous without ever having even the tiniest shade of wrong in His actions or thoughts.
Holy God is the initiator of patience, love, holiness, purity, honesty and much, much more. And that is just how He created this world.

Who Actually Is The Most High God

It's not an idea that God simply chose to do, to make things more complicated for you, it IS who He is. God Most High, cannot ever become anything else, or do anything else. All His commands are there to protect His disposition and to watch over people.
These dynamics were built INTO the entire cosmos, and also, formed into mankind.
The Lord of Heaven's Armies would not do something that opposes His Being. One can label it the 'unchangeable governing laws of the whole cosmos.'
And so, the Sovereign God of the Holy Bible is the Grand Creator God of the entire cosmos, as well as the architect of the minutest part of a molecule, which is too small to see. Here is how the Bible depicts God:

I am the LORD, that is My name; And My glory will I not give to another, Neither My praise to graven images. (Isaiah 42:8) For the LORD your God is a consuming fire, a jealous God. (Deuteronomy 4:24)
The LORD is far above all of the nations; he is more glorious than the heavens. (Psalm 113:4)
Thine, Jehovah, is the greatness, and the power, and the glory, and the splendour, and the majesty; for all that is in the heavens and on the earth is thine: thine, Jehovah, is the kingdom, and thou art exalted as Head above all; (1 Chronicles 29:11)
The angels who stood around the throne knelt in front of it with their faces to the ground...Then they all worshiped God (Revelation 7:11)
Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast understanding... (Job 38:4)
Thou knowest it, for thou wast then born, And the number of thy days is great!..... (Job 38:21)
And dost thou understand the band of Pleias, and hast thou opened the barrier of Orion?..... (Job 38:31)
Then the LORD said to Job, Is the striver with the Mighty instructed? The reprover of God, let him answer it. Then Job replied to the LORD, Behold, I am vile; what shall I answer thee? I will lay mine hand upon my mouth. I have spoken once, and I will not reply; twice, but now I can add nothing... Wilt thou even make void My judgment? Wilt thou condemn Me, that thou mayest be justified? Have you an arm like God? or can you thunder with a voice like him? (Job 40:1-5, 8,9)
And Job answereth Jehovah and saith: -- ?I know that You can do all things, And that no plan is impossible for You. Who is he that hideth counsel without knowledge? therefore have I uttered that I understood not; things too wonderful for me, which I knew not. "You said, 'Listen now, and I will speak. I will ask you, and you will teach me.' I've heard you with my ears; and now I've seen you with my eyes. Wherefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes. (Job 42:1-6)
Blessed are they, that are of an humble spirit, for of such is the kingdom of the Messias. (Matthew 5:3)


Generally, humanity at present, have only been told about God, they have not actually encountered Him.
Then so why, do some people self-importantly expect explanations from God Most High, to everything we disagree with? Of course, the important doubts we have of proper justice and the innocent who suffer are correct, but not to the level where we can command the Supremely powerful Sovereign God to offer humans an account of His presumed unfair handling of things.

The Creator Is The Owner Of Their Particular Design, That's Legislation

God not only owns the whole universe, but He also owns us also, and all He wants is what belongs to Him. His requirement is to be devoted to Him in turn. It can be hard to take, but this world is His endeavor, and He is able to formulate it how He wants. If we produced it, we could set the terms and conditions. However, God says:

'And you shall love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart:' (Deuteronomy 6:5-6)

People Have Not Been Made As Androids Or Even As Pets But As Members Of The Family

God may perhaps have taken the danger from your world, to give us a problem-free life, but only by making us all as compliant robotic machines. But that is most assuredly not what the Creator God desired.
God Most High desired an individual endowed with free will and would voluntarily choose to love Him.
A living being something resembling Himself.

A Particular Hazard Of Affording You And I Independent Choice

Yet, the possibility with assigning your created living being their own free choice, is that they may possibly forsake you, and that is exactly what we did.
This is a catastrophe, consider all the occasions we commit and also think think and also commit which are wrong, it is often known as sinfulness in the Bible, they wholly assault Holy God's order and righteousness, and again, you may possibly say a violation of the Changeless Laws of the entire cosmos - the controlled cosmos He put together. These trespasses have removed us from God Most High.

'The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it?' (Jeremiah 17:9)

'Who can know all his errors? Please do not punish me for sins I am unaware of.' (Psalm 19:12)

Imagine it like this disgusting comparison. A new sterilized swab taken out of a new unopened pack to treat your bad bleeding wound, now, when compared with a previously used, unsterilized swab that has been stepped and sat upon for 30 days from the doctor's area chairs or floor. How would you feel? Yucky, repugnant. Well, that is only a touch of how God is repulsed by our behaviour that is wrong, even the so-called trivial stuff we do wrong and sometimes sinnful thoughts, that trample on His holiness, and violates the established laws of the whole cosmos.
Even the stuff we deem trivial, for instance: hating someone, being ungrateful to God, obscenities, white lies and not working for God, and so many more.

Everyone Of These Wrong Things Are A Debt That Have Got To Be Paid For, To A Pure God

Our sins are debts to God:
'Forgive us our debts, as we also forgive our debtors.' (Matthew 6:12)

Every one of these things are a violation of the divine pureness, decency and power of God Most High. Every instance we behave in those ways, it is to give God a whack in the head. In the Bible, contained in the Ten Commandments, The Lord proclaims you are not to use His Holy name in vain or dismissively. Have you ever blasphemed His Holy Name? The Lord tells us that we respect our father and mother. Did you ever show disrespect to your father or mother? The Lord proclaims not to yearn for others belongings. Have you at any time coveted to possess your friend's life circumstances, home, wife or things? The Lord proclaims that it is wrong to thieve, have you even once thieved something in your life?

God Most High has all knowledge. And, each and every sin MUST be paid in full. The point in time is soon coming when every single sin WILL be judged, or you might say, finalise accounts to syncretize with the fixed laws of the entire cosmos. Or alternatively, the Holy Bible calls it; to allay the anger of the Most High God. This may well come as a shock to most people, since they are told that The Creator God treasures one and all endlessly, that they believe that God Most High could hardly be enraged with anyone because of some wrong they are doing.

Constantly I see people, ignorant of these fundamentals, say ?How exactly does a loving God be that way? What is this added necessity on sinlessness??

To that I respond, "Certainly, He does love people, however, humans cannot receive the love facet of Holy God and take no notice of the perfection facet. It's unfeasible. It is clearly expressed in the Bible, but people are hardly ever told of such things. Unfortunately, these days people only talk about the nice teachings, rather than the entire uncomfortable truth.
We will never know the Eternal God by with our worldly objectives, beliefs and behaviour. God Most High genuinely is ?from a different place and time? and He tells humans exactly who, He really is and how He operates in his book. Insisting that He abide by our rules, only gives us a futile hope in an idea that is not true and will fall apart before long.
Human beings wrongly blame Almighty God for the things that go wrong in life, however, it is hardly God?s failing. He created all things superbly, Adam and Eve ruined everything and we continue to screw up. They assault Holy God's order and righteousness; the 'unchangeable governing laws of the whole cosmos.' God is unable to simply come along and make everything perfect for humankind. The directives or progression of this life that The Creator God set in place, must come to it's natural end.
Every one of our sin debts have to be paid for.

That being said, God presented a plan for our evil to be convicted and judged, to meet the legal demands of God's abiding Law, the everlasting law of the whole cosmos. That incredible plan, was the nailing to a cross, dying, burial and being brought back to life of His Son, Christ. And, this incredible victory was carried out in the open in front of all creation ? mankind, angels and the fallen angels.
Jesus Christ was the perfect sacrificial payment that can pay the price your wrong; ways, attitudes and thinking. Absolutely nothing else could pay for all of our wrong.
The Bible says:

'Since all have sinned (done bad stuff) and continue to fall short of God's glory.' (Romans 3:23)
Simply living 'a really good' life and doing 'good' things will not rescue humans from the grim penalty of the wrong ways, attitudes and thinking, only Jesus Christ can. If the only thing we do in life is to be the perfect woman or man and that includes going to church, that will not rescue anybody and will not permit a person to get into heaven. That means, going away to hell, often known as Gehenna:

'For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is life eternal in Jesus Christ our Lord.' (Romans 6:23)

No, it is not doing good that saves people, we need to apologise for all the wrong stuff we did, and give our lives for God Most High. I will describe this with more detail later.

Due to this I find that attending funeral services of a non-Christian truly troubles me. Now this is also the reason my greatest concern in this life is telling people about who God really is. To say to others who never attend church, and, to folks who do attend church but still are yet to properly grasped what it was about. The false impression of God is prevalent, and is either because the message they listened to was unclear or it was compromised by the misleading traditions of the current philosophical system, from pastors constantly trying to make the Everlasting, unchanging Great God to seem as if He is just a pleasant, warm grandfather form of god, without His breathtaking perfection and the judging of sinnful sins. That really is a phony god of their own feelings.
Over and over I hear people argue ?Tell me how can God be like this, Christians say He was a God of great love?? Correct, but we will never dismiss God's frightening justice, because His Holy Book talks considerably more as regards His sanctity and frightening justice, than His great love.
It is impossible to comprehend the Creator God by using our perspectives and principles. God Most High truly is ?not of this world? and He declares to the human race who He really is and about how He governs in the Bible. Expecting Him to conform to human rules, just gives us a dangerously incorrect view of the Creator God.
And don't forget, there's no possible means to hide it from God when you are not genuine. God knows all one's thoughts.

Succumb Unconditionally To God And Each Of Our Bad Things Are Paid In Full

The sole way to have those trespasses pardoned and to stay clear of hell, is to realise how wrong we actually are in front of a Righteous God, and to tell God that we are so sorry for our wrongdoing. And the next step is to wholly hand over one's being to God, and be subject to God as boss for the remainder of our life. That, is the correct design of humans on the planet He made for His delight:

'And he said to them all, If any one will come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me;' (Luke 9:23)

Jesus never proclaimed ?Now live your life as a good or nice person, perform various good deeds for others, and you will live with me in paradise .?
Actually, this is what the Creator God stated about being pardoned of your wickedness:

'He also told this parable to some who trusted in themselves that they were righteous and looked down on everyone else:
?Two men went up into the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector. The Pharisee, standing, prayed thus to himself: God, I thank thee that I am not as the rest of men, rapacious, unjust, adulterers, or even as this tax-gatherer. I fast two days a week, and I give you one tenth of all my income.' But the tax collector stood at a distance and would not even raise his face to heaven, but beat on his breast and said, 'God, have pity on me, a sinner!'
"I tell you that this man went home more thoroughly absolved from guilt than the other; for every one who uplifts himself will be humbled, but he who humbles himself will be uplifted."' (Luke 18:9-14)

The Teacher of the law in this lesson is not doing the presumed ?bad' sins like terrorism, as we say, however he was not forgiven by God.
Yet, the collector of taxes actually did do ?bad' evils but was pardoned by Holy God, due to the fact that he really repented.
It is a humiliating step to say that we have been and are, wrong and to give up our existence wholly to God. However, without it we are not able to be rescued from our iniquities, we have got to come to Sovereign God lowly and helpless. Jesus Christ said :

'and Jesus called a child to him, set him in the midst of them. and said, "Verily I say to you, except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall in no wise enter into the Kingdom of Heaven.' (Matthew 18:2-3)

To Be Saved From Hellish Torment Is Not By Being Nice

'For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God.' (Ephesians 2:8)

Surrender To God And Allow Jesus To Pay For The Obligation Or Do It Solo??

'And he said to them all, If any one will come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me;' (Luke 9:23)

To ?Take up one's cross every day? indicates, we have got to obey in a self-giving manner each single day for God.
The Bible also says:

'Therefore I exhort you, brothers and sisters, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a sacrifice--alive, holy, and pleasing to God--which is your reasonable service. (Romans 12:1)

'However sanctify Christ as Lord in your hearts; always ready with a defense to everyone asking you a word concerning the hope in you; yet with meekness and fear.' (1Peter 3:15)

In summary: the Creator God gets to be your chief executive. Your entire life. And as His Book instructs, we live for Sovereign God, studies in the Bible, communicating with God day by day, informing other people who God is, and assisting some others as we are guided to. He, becomes our cause and goal for the whole of our life.

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