The Way To Heaven

My friend told me that going to Heaven is like going to New York: there are many ways to get there, and it doesn’t really matter which road you take. In their thinking, as long as you sincerely follow the way you think is right, it will get you there. My friend was right about making it to New York, but completely wrong about going to Heaven. The map to Heaven, the Bible, declares there is only one way. If you believe there are many ways to Heaven, or that as long as you have Jesus in the passenger seat you can choose any way you wish, please stop and carefully consider this message. “There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death” (Proverbs 14:12). Many people believe they can earn Heaven by being a “good person,” or earn favor with God by doing good works. But this way of thinking is actually deadly. It leads the WRONG WAY—away from the path God has made—to a terrible end in “the blackness of darkness for ever” (Jude 13). God says we cannot