When you reach those pearly gates what might save you?

Y'know, we joke about spiritual things
It's a bit of a relief at times

And we sometimes get serious
Dig into That Book
Get confused
Struggle with understanding

Did it for many years

I've found studying prayerfully, for understanding, with the aid of The Holy Spirit, makes all the difference in this world

'But the Advocate, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things'
John 14

Otherwise
it's pretty much all in vain

'They are darkened in their understanding and separated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them due to the hardening of their hearts.'
Ephesians 4
 
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According to the Bible there is no good work that will get us into heaven but only our wholehearted and sincere trust in the divine sacrifice on the cross to atone for our sins. It is out of this conversion, being made a new creation in Christ, that good works should then take place.
 

Good deeds or bad deeds have no bearing on your admittance to heaven, to get in you must accept Jesus Christ as your savior. At least that's what my Cristian friends tell me.

I did much bad in my early life, and have spent the last forty years trying to make amends. Not because I expect to get into heaven, but because I am ashamed of the person I was.

I don't believe in heaven or hell as destinations after death, I believe they are metaphors for the way we live while our hearts are beating. Chose one or the other now because once your heart stops and your body decays you are nothing but a memory.
 
I know nothing! I just do the best with what I got, if that ain't good enough, well, here we are... Had this same conversation with my dad when I was just a kid.
 
Michael Z said:
According to the Bible there is no good work that will get us into heaven but only our wholehearted and sincere trust in the divine sacrifice on the cross to atone for our sins. It is out of this conversion, being made a new creation in Christ, that good works should then take place.
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There are those who have heard the gospel and simply refuse to accept it. That's their choice. What breaks my heart are those who, for whatever reason, have a never had the opportunity to learn the truth. I pray for those people.
 
I don't buy in to the pearly gates, or St. Michael, or St. Peter. I respect other people's sentiments or choices. I have a long history with religion specifically Christianity. As a preacher's son I was forced to attend church not for the sake of Christianity but to support my dad. A requirement of the family.
My life and the church were one and the same, I listened and observed preachers, teachers, church services and sermons. I found similarities in words and causes worthy of a red flag. Christianity is based on faith. If you dismantle faith from Christianity it would include believing in Jesus and giving yourself to Jesus would give you salvation and forgiveness of sin.
Faith is believing in something that cannot be proven by conventional means of identification. This means, to be a Christian, I must blindly believe in the Christian structure as it is told to me, without solid evidence of existence.
If I believe something strong enough it is possible to assume something is real based on faith.
 
I didn't manage to do anything very laudable today, though I admit thinking about this thread when turning back to put some money in the Stroke Association fund raisers bucket at a local supermarket, (maybe I wouldn't have done otherwise! :( ).

Other than that I enjoyed myself supporting my local rugby union team, and met the president of the opposing team, discovering he used to be a teacher, and took part in a rugby tournament in northern France in 1971 I attended myself, (btw today his team won deservedly by a narrow margin,..., do I get more "brownie points" for saying that?).
 
Nothing will save me.
I'll be told, "What are ya doin' up here? Go join your friends down there."
 

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