It is the idea that no person can make it to Heaven without the saving grace of God through His Son – Jesus Christ.

Saved means to be taken from the road to eternal death and placed on the road to eternal life. It is to be taken from being out of God’s grace or favor and being put safely into God’s grace and favor.

Who or what does this saving? It is God Himself who does this. The how and the why are a bit more complicated but you know the idea if you know the idea of Christmas and Easter.  God is one but exists in three persons – the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. They have existed together for all eternity. I know, if you think too deeply on what eternity in the past means it will begin to hurt your mind. If it helps, just think of God existing outside of time.

God knew when He created man that man would sin. God knew that, because of this, man would need a Savior. So, the plan was, that in time, God the Son, would become a man (while still being God) and die on the cross in order that the price for all sin could be paid by God Himself. Christmas tells the facts of the birth of God becoming a man and Easter tells the facts about the death on the cross (and resurrection) of the God-Man.

There are some, perhaps you, who think it is too simple of a story? Too simple for today’s minds? Some call it a fairy tale. Some say man created God in order to rule him by fear.

Answer: volumes have been written by far greater minds than yours (and ours) that delve into these matters. Galileo was a devout believer. As was Copernicus and Kepler. Newton, who some say may have been the greatest genius, wrote much on the subject of God and Christianity. Theologians have meditated on the nature of the Triune God and written deep works on what it must be like to be God – His nature, His purity, His love, His judgment.

But, you might say, hasn’t “modern science” disproven the existence of God? My friend, every age has its believers and its doubters. Every age’s doubters bring forth their ideas trying to disprove God. Their ideas are almost always couched in prideful terms attempting to dismiss what has come before as “simple.” You see, they will tell you, their age is the enlightened age.

It is safe to say that if you want there to be no God you will find many people happy to agree with you and to tell you you are right. They may even be okay with you believing in God as long as you don’t spend too much time thinking about salvation and Heaven.

Many have died, we call them martyrs, to preserve the faith so that you have the chance to choose God’s way.

Let’s face it, we all wish the dividing line was drawn somewhere far from us. It is a tempting thought, isn’t it?

Wouldn’t it be great, we seem to say, if only the really bad among us had to face Hell? Like Hitler, Stalin and Mao? Or, those who abuse children. Or, mass murderers.

Yet, in reading the Bible, we are left with the overwhelming conviction that many more crimes, actions and, even thoughts, place us under God’s judgment. Often, too, we forget the many sins of omission we have committed – i.e., not doing all the things we should.

You may say you don’t believe in the Bible. Fine, but it is Bible that brings us the Judeo-Christian worldview. Without the Bible we would get our idea of God or no-God from still another source or sources. I.e., these ideas don’t just materialize out of thin air.

What are we saying? That, like it or not, we all must have some worldview as it relates to eternity or no-eternity, judgment or no-judgment, being created in God’s image or being a product of evolution. We think it is wise to know where our worldview comes from and if it can be defended. I.e., are you prepared to go to your death (natural or accidental) holding that worldview; that view of God or no-God; and who that God might be if you believe in God.

If your worldview on these matters is difficult to even define; if you spend only a small fraction of your time even thinking on these vital issues; we implore to think more deeply. As Jesus said, Seek and keep on seeking, knock and keep on knocking, ask and keep on asking.

Yes, we believe it is. We also believe there is the thought in nearly everyone’s heart that eternal life is real. What is crucial is getting the details about eternal life right. Of course, eternal means never ending. Never ending means that our 30, 50, 80 or a 100 years on earth are less than a point on a straight line extending into infinity.

Let us ask you a question, “How many hours have you deeply thought about “the crucial details?” “How seriously have you looked into this issue?”

So, the question, “What must I do to be saved?”, becomes “What must I do to have an eternal life (an unending good life)?” Isn’t this a question worthy of all your focussed attention? Shouldn’t you get right to it?

We believe Heaven is real and the most ideal place to spend eternity. If God is good, and we believe He is, then Heaven is where we will experience Him in the fullest sense.

That silly idea of sitting on a cloud playing a harp all day long and saying how boring that would be is just that – a silly caricature. A key Christian in the early days of Christianity said, “But as it is written, Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God has prepared for them that love him.”

It was Jesus himself who said, “If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask him?”

You might also ask, if it isn’t boring for God, why would God allow it to be boring for us?