The clip below is from a 20/20 episode which aired this past Friday (11-25-11) and a comment at the 14:15 mark specifically stuck out to me regarding what one needs to do to go to Heaven. Are they really correct? It that really what God's word says? See clip below (I recommend watching from the beginning of the clip to the 14:14 mark).
Well...I guess all I really needed to do since being born was be perfect and then I would be able to go to heaven. Wouldn't that be obeying God's word? Because if I didn't obey one part of it then I be in sin and not able to go to Heaven and my desiny would be Hell. You see, the only problem with obeying God's word in order to go to heaven means my salvation would be based on what I do. Which is being perfect by obeying God's word and thus not sinning; however, there is a problem...Roman 3:23 (for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God). So, it is really not by being perfect by obeying God's word that enables me to go to Heaven, it is by having faith in the grace God offered me through His Son Jesus Christ, not the result of anyting I did or could do (Ephesians 2:8–9). Those poor kids, please keep them in your prayers.
Oh, by the way, I could not even enter this world sinless because I was born of Adam's seed which is how sin is passed down from one generation to the next (Romans 5:12), so it is true that all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God. We all need a Savior in order to go to Heaven and that is Jesus Christ (Acts 4:12).
