Jesus, The Only Way To Heaven

(John 14:6) "Jesus said to him, I am the way, and the truth, and the life.  No one comes to the Father except through me." (ESV)

It is unpopular and politically incorrect to proclaim that Jesus is the only way to heaven.  You will no doubt be accused of being intolerant and narrow minded.  We often hear that all religions are the same and that all will be well if a person is sincere in what he believes.  Others tell us that most people are basically good and will just end up in heaven. 

But all religions are not the same.  They all do not believe in the same God.  Christianity believes in a triune God (Father, Son, and Holy Spirit), three persons of one essence. Christianity holds that Jesus is God while all other religions deny this.  So if Christianity is true then all other religions must be false.  Jesus cannot be God and not God, it has to be one or the other. 

Also people are not basically good deserving to go to heaven.  We are all sinners who actually deserve to go to hell. All people have sinned and rebelled against God.  This separates us from him and brings the wrath of a holy God on us.  We can only be saved from our sins and the wrath to come by Christ alone.  Through his death on the cross and resurrection Christ paid the penalty for the sins of his people and was victorious over sin and death.  A person must repent of his sins and place his faith in Christ alone.  One must believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of the living God.