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don’t mean to be rude but you are not interpreting things correctly… Nowhere in the bible does it say that all we have to do is have faith in Jesus… That’s nonsense… What about St Mt 25:31 and the one where Jesus says the way to Heaven is to obey the 10 Commandments… and give up everyting you have to follow Him (so as to be perfect… “Be perfect as your father in Heaven is perfect” - St Mt 5:48)ISo the very things that these people were doing that they thought were pleasing to God were called iniquity by Jesus. Well, what were those things. I’m sure they were doing many of the things that people on this post say are ways to get to heaven. They were probably loving one another. They were probably keeping the commandments. They were probably being good people (at least what they thought was good). But the bottom line is that there is nothing that we can do that is good enough to get us into heaven. The absolute only way to heaven is faith in what Jesus Christ has done for us on the cross.
Jn.14:6Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
the way to get to Heaven is to be fully in Christ… to ***do His will at all times ***and not our own… you can do good things and still not be doing what God wants you to do… For instance, a man with 9 children takes off to some 3rd world country to be a missionary, effectively abandoning his family… Is that what God wants? I kinda doubt it… unless the children are all over the age of 18 or so… and even then, God may want him to do something else… We dont always know all the details of what God wants or how He wants us to do this or that… but we do have a general idea… because of the Holy spirit speaking to us…
In any case, it specificlly says in james 2:12 that we are NOT saved by faith alone…