To understand why Jesus is the only way to heaven, we must go back to the beginning, to Genesis chapters 1-3, where God created the perfect world and made the perfect man and woman.  Adam and Eve were living in a beautiful garden and all the creatures of the earth were their friends. All creation was pure, holy, and in perfect harmony. Adam and Eve were like innocent children living in the presence of God, and they were sinless. They were given freedom to eat fruit from any tree in their beautiful garden paradise except one; they were commanded  not to eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil; God told them if they eat of that tree they would die.

Then something went terribly wrong in the beautiful garden; Satan, who the Bible calls the "Serpent of old," and a "fallen angel" deceived Eve into eating from the forbidden tree. Eve gave the forbidden fruit to Adam, and they ate it and disobeyed God's only commandment. This brought catastrophic consequences upon the whole world, and upon humanity for all time. Humanity had fallen under the curse of sin, resulting in physical and eternal death, and from that day forth humanity has been cursed by sin, and separated from Holy God.

The first thing God did after confronting Adam and Eve with their disobedience was to take the life of the innocent. Sin always affects the innocent as well as the guilty. Innocent animal friends that Adam and Eve loved were killed to cover their nakedness. This was the first time man, and creation experienced the consequence of sin, resulting in the bloody death of the innocent.

The only way to restore the breech  between God and man was to abolish the debt incurred by the curse of sin that separates humanity from Holy God. According to the Bible, the sin debt can only be abolished by the bloody, substitutionary death of the innocent. Substitutionary, because the innocent victim takes the place, and sufferers the punishment of the Sinner. From the time sin entered the world until Jesus was nailed to a Roman cross, the stream of blood from innocent sacrificial animals flowed throughout ancient history to appease the debt of sin. These animal sacrifices served as a foreshadowing of the supreme substitutionary sacrifice of God Himself, in the person of the innocent, sinless Jesus.

This is why Jesus is the only One who could abolished the debt incurred by sinful humanity. God Himself in the person of Jesus, became a man, the only One to ever live a sinless life, and therefore the only One qualified to be the supreme sacrifice that would save humanity from the debt of sin, and eternal Hell.

The Bible says that all the sins of humanity were attributed to Jesus, and that He literally became humanity's Sin upon the cross. When Jesus died, He was buried, and the sins of humanity were buried with Him. As the Bible foretold the sacrificial death of Jesus in ancient history, it also foretold His glorious resurrection. Three days after His death, Jesus came to life again, and walked out of the grave victorious over death. But, the debt of sin was left in the grave forever. Jesus lives, but the debt of sin is once and for all time abolished for all humanity.

Yes, we are all still sinners, and we all still have an appointment with eternity, but the debt of sin we owe has been paid by the only One qualified to pay it. Since the debt of sin has been paid, there is only one unpardonable omission that keeps people from heaven, and condemns them to eternal hell; it is failure to trust in Jesus as Lord and Savior. Jesus is the only way to heaven, because out of all the religions and gods of this world, He is the only One who paid the debt of sin with His own blood. Only through Jesus is your debt of sin paid, and only through Jesus is your hope of a Brand New and eternal Life!


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