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The Only Criteria That Can Take You To Heaven? by ebubeson(op): 11:23pm On Oct 04, 2025

Do you know singing, anointing, power, good preaching, prayers, good church, good pastor, positive confession, impact, evangelism, crying during worship, dancing like David danced, giving, having a good heart e.t.c, are good but cannot take you to heaven if you do not have holiness attached to it?

God may overlook certain things to bless you on earth, but He will never overlook holiness when it comes to you entering heaven.

Again, God makes holiness achievable if you hunger and thirst after righteousness. But many people are not so positively desperate for righteousness and holiness. Many are comfortable with nominal, worldly and compromising christianity. Matthew 5:6 "Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled"

Hebrew 12:14 "Follow peace with all men, and holiness without which no man shall see the Lord"

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Re: The Only Criteria That Can Take You To Heaven? by ebubeson(op): 11:24pm On Oct 04, 2025

Make sure you do not die without making peace with God.

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Re: The Only Criteria That Can Take You To Heaven? by MrPresident1: 11:46pm On Oct 04, 2025

ebubeson:
Make sure you do not die without making peace with God.

Is God the God of the dead or the living? Why should anyone see God after death rather than when they are alive? No one sees God at death, it is while alive that you see God

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Re: The Only Criteria That Can Take You To Heaven? by paxonel(m): 2:25am On Oct 05, 2025

ebubeson:
Do you know singing, anointing, power, good preaching, prayers, good church, good pastor, positive confession, impact, evangelism, crying during worship, dancing like David danced, giving, having a good heart e.t.c, are good but cannot take you to heaven if you do not have holiness attached to it?

God may overlook certain things to bless you on earth, but He will never overlook holiness when it comes to you entering heaven.

Again, God makes holiness achievable if you hunger and thirst after righteousness. But many people are not so desperate for righteousness. Matthew 5:6 "Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled"

Hebrew 12:14 "Follow peace with all men, and holiness without which no man shall see the Lord"

How do you get holiness?

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Re: The Only Criteria That Can Take You To Heaven? by cutecommend: 3:37am On Oct 05, 2025*

paxonel:
How do you get holiness?

Be very desperate, hungry and thirsty for it. Engage in "do-or-die" prayers, bible study, fastings e.t.c to God, requesting only one thing: "God make me holy". When God sees that you are truly interested in being holy, He will give you grace to be holy. God does not want to waste such grace on unserious so-called christians.

Matthew 5:6 "Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.

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Re: The Only Criteria That Can Take You To Heaven? by paxonel(m): 6:20am On Oct 05, 2025

cutecommend:
Be very desperate, hungry and thirsty for it. Engage in "do-or-die" prayers, bible study, fastings e.t.c to God, requesting only one thing: "God make me holy". When God sees that you are truly interested in being holy, He will give you grace to be holy. God does not want to waste such grace on unserious so-called christians.

you know this desperate approach is fueling spiritual exploitation in churches today which is not good for Christianity?

A situation where pastors keep telling church members to seek holiness desperately by coming to church always and serve God is shifting their attention and curiosity to what is not necessary.
Hence the pastor will definitely take advantage like a survivor of the fittest and exploit the church members for his personal benefits. Because by psychology, the people does not have sense
So the pastor who does not have any hand work will continue to be richer while the vast majority of the church members who go to work their money and bring offering to church remains poor

Matthew 5:6 "Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.

To have a clear interpretation of this scripture without any evil intention, Jesus is saying that blessed are those who believe in him for they shall be made holy.

Holiness is simply believing in Christ, that is when your eternal life is sure

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Re: The Only Criteria That Can Take You To Heaven? by Dtruthspeaker: 6:34am On Oct 05, 2025

MrPresident1:
Is God the God of the dead or the living? Why should anyone see God after death rather than when they are alive? No one sees God at death, it is while alive that you see God

Clearly, he implies you should see God before you die.

Re: The Only Criteria That Can Take You To Heaven? by Dtruthspeaker: 6:37am On Oct 05, 2025

cutecommend:
Be very desperate, hungry and thirsty for it. Engage in "do-or-die" prayers, bible study, fastings e.t.c to God, requesting only one thing: "God make me holy". When God sees that you are truly interested in being holy, He will give you grace to be holy. God does not want to waste such grace on unserious so-called christians.

Matthew 5:6 "Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.

I almost said that you are wrong but I concede that you are right by 40-45%.

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Re: The Only Criteria That Can Take You To Heaven? by MaxInDHouse(m): 6:44am On Oct 05, 2025

Heaven is not for humans earth is God's purpose for mankind! Psalms 115:16

And it's planet earth He promised to give all righteous people forever! Psalms 37:9-11, 29; Matthew 5:5

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Re: The Only Criteria That Can Take You To Heaven? by helinues: 6:52am On Oct 05, 2025

You people are yet to tell us where this heaven and hell of a thing is located

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Re: The Only Criteria That Can Take You To Heaven? by MrPresident1: 7:26am On Oct 05, 2025

Dtruthspeaker:
Clearly, he implies you should see God before you die.

Yeah. He is correct, and I am correct too.

Re: The Only Criteria That Can Take You To Heaven? by MrPresident1: 7:30am On Oct 05, 2025

ebubeson:
Do you know singing, anointing, power, good preaching, prayers, good church, good pastor, positive confession, impact, evangelism, crying during worship, dancing like David danced, giving, having a good heart e.t.c, are good but cannot take you to heaven if you do not have holiness attached to it?

God may overlook certain things to bless you on earth, but He will never overlook holiness when it comes to you entering heaven.

Again, God makes holiness achievable if you hunger and thirst after righteousness. But many people are not so desperate for righteousness. Matthew 5:6 "Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled"

Hebrew 12:14 "Follow peace with all men, and holiness without which no man shall see the Lord"

The emboldened. The very important criterion for 'making heaven' on this earth and hereafter, is a good heart which is expressed in righteous living, which in turn makes God to confer holiness.

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Re: The Only Criteria That Can Take You To Heaven? by cutecommend: 8:12am On Oct 05, 2025

paxonel:
you know this desperate approach is fueling spiritual exploitation in churches today which is not good for Christianity?

A situation where pastors keep telling church members to seek holiness desperately by coming to church always and serve God is shifting their attention and curiosity to what is not necessary.
Hence the pastor will definitely take advantage like a survivor of the fittest and exploit the church members for his personal benefits. Because by psychology, the people does not have sense
So the pastor who does not have any hand work will continue to be richer while the vast majority of the church members who go to work their money and bring offering to church remains poor

To have a clear interpretation of this scripture without any evil intention, Jesus is saying that blessed are those who believe in him for they shall be made holy.

Holiness is simply believing in Christ, that is when your eternal life is sure

Desperation here is not looking for other miracles e.t.c, but being positively desperate, hungry and thirsty for God to make you righteous and holy.

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Re: The Only Criteria That Can Take You To Heaven? by cutecommend: 8:12am On Oct 05, 2025

ebubeson:
Do you know singing, anointing, power, good preaching, prayers, good church, good pastor, positive confession, impact, evangelism, crying during worship, dancing like David danced, giving, having a good heart e.t.c, are good but cannot take you to heaven if you do not have holiness attached to it?

God may overlook certain things to bless you on earth, but He will never overlook holiness when it comes to you entering heaven.

Again, God makes holiness achievable if you hunger and thirst after righteousness. But many people are not so positively desperate for righteousness. Matthew 5:6 "Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled"

Hebrew 12:14 "Follow peace with all men, and holiness without which no man shall see the Lord"

Re: The Only Criteria That Can Take You To Heaven? by paxonel(m): 8:37am On Oct 05, 2025

cutecommend:
Desperation here is not looking for other miracles e.t.c, but being positively desperate, hungry and thirsty for God to make you righteous and holy.

Re: The Only Criteria That Can Take You To Heaven? by blingxx(m): 9:29am On Oct 05, 2025

helinues:
You people are yet to tell us where this heaven and hell of a thing is located

Religion is a very powerful tool that is why it works

Re: The Only Criteria That Can Take You To Heaven? by BodyCount: 9:29am On Oct 05, 2025

Propaganda

Propagation of lies

Story book for a purpose...

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Re: The Only Criteria That Can Take You To Heaven? by SlavaUkraini: 9:30am On Oct 05, 2025

OP, continue to dey play ▶️

The only thing you need to enter heaven is to believe in Jesus Christ.... That's all

All that your self righteousness and holiness is nothing but a filthy rag in the sight of God..

Jesus Christ is your only Visa to the Father

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Re: The Only Criteria That Can Take You To Heaven? by Righteousness2(m): 9:32am On Oct 05, 2025

If Heaven matters to you, you MUST be Born-again.
You Must BELIEVE AND SURRENDER To the LORDSHIP of JESUS CHRIST.

No matter how Righteous, good, Wonderful or whatever you claim to be, if you Do not BELIEVE and SURRENDER to JESUS CHRIST, you are on the Highway to Hell.

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Re: The Only Criteria That Can Take You To Heaven? by Sonofgod1990(m): 9:34am On Oct 05, 2025

MrPresident1:
Is God the God of the dead or the living? Why should anyone see God after death rather than when they are alive? No one sees God at death, it is while alive that you see God

How sure are you?
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Re: The Only Criteria That Can Take You To Heaven? by Jokerman(m): 9:39am On Oct 05, 2025

Nigerian Christians should know all these.

You can't be a Christian and you are supporting evil such as bribery, corruption, fornication, Adultery, stealing, support evil politicians, hypocrisy, Money Chasers, Scamming, tribalism, racism, hatred, etc... as the bible specificied on the Last day, "Many will come in Jesus name, saying we have done many wonderful works in your name, but the Master will say, "Depart from me, I know you not".

Nigerian Christians should remember that holiness and righteousness in the Lord Jesus, is what takes a soul to heaven... There are not two ways or shortcuts... There is no Hypocrisy with God

Re: The Only Criteria That Can Take You To Heaven? by femi4: 9:40am On Oct 05, 2025

ebubeson:
Do you know singing, anointing, power, good preaching, prayers, good church, good pastor, positive confession, impact, evangelism, crying during worship, dancing like David danced, giving, having a good heart e.t.c, are good but cannot take you to heaven if you do not have holiness attached to it?

God may overlook certain things to bless you on earth, but He will never overlook holiness when it comes to you entering heaven.

Again, God makes holiness achievable if you hunger and thirst after righteousness. But many people are not so positively desperate for righteousness and holiness. Many are comfortable with nominal, worldly and compromising christianity. Matthew 5:6 "Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled"

Hebrew 12:14 "Follow peace with all men, and holiness without which no man shall see the Lord"

No one is holy
Our righteousness is not by works, its by faith

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Re: The Only Criteria That Can Take You To Heaven? by AntiChristian: 9:44am On Oct 05, 2025

Grace or works?

Abi na grace and works?

Too many wàhálà! grin

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Re: The Only Criteria That Can Take You To Heaven? by Lukuluku69(m): 9:46am On Oct 05, 2025

SlavaUkraini:
OP, continue to dey play ▶️

The only thing you need to enter heaven is to believe in Jesus Christ.... That's all

All that your self righteousness and holiness is nothing but a filthy rag in the sight of God..

Jesus Christ is your only Visa to the Father

So, those that lived and died before Christ will not see Heaven according to this logic of yours?

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Re: The Only Criteria That Can Take You To Heaven? by SlavaUkraini: 9:49am On Oct 05, 2025

Lukuluku69:
So, those that lived and died before Christ will not see Heaven according to this logic of yours ?

Jesus is the way, the Truth and the Life...

No one comes to the Father, except by him

Re: The Only Criteria That Can Take You To Heaven? by UkoAnnang(m): 9:51am On Oct 05, 2025*

Another Sunday for nairaland fairly tales

We wey no wan go heaven nko?

Goodness or holiness as una call am
Are universal demands from every individual.
We practice it not because we want to go to heaven, we practice it cos it's a demand from our creator.

The rewards of goodness is here on earth not in the imaginary heaven as christians and Muslim talk.
The Bible says there are seasons
A time to sow and a time to reap that we have sown. Seed time are the good deeds we do while the harvest time are the rewards we get from that we have done.

For example in our businesses;
We have customers running to us cos the way we render our services to them the previous time they came to us.
The way we treated them they referred others to us. But if you treated them bad they will go and never come back. The soul of every depends on numbers of patronage.

I don't do good because I want to make heaven, I do good because it's a necessary demand from me.

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Re: The Only Criteria That Can Take You To Heaven? by emmabest2000(m): 9:54am On Oct 05, 2025

ebubeson:
Make sure you do not die without making peace with God.

God is Good all the time
All the time God is good
Yes yes

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Re: The Only Criteria That Can Take You To Heaven? by Kushites: 9:55am On Oct 05, 2025

SlavaUkraini:
OP, continue to dey play ▶️

The only thing you need to enter heaven is to believe in Jesus Christ.... That's all

All that your self righteousness and holiness is nothing but a filthy rag in the sight of God..

Jesus Christ is your only Visa to the Father

You are WRONG.

NOBODY needs to "BELIEVE IN" anything or anybody in order to return home to the Land of the Ancestors, which you call "heaven".

We are POWERFUL IMMORTAL BEINGS.

God made flesh in temporal human bodies.

When the body expires we return home, with our consciousness and awareness intact and expanded to our pre-birth state.

In the Land of the Ancestors, Thought creates reality. There are mansions sitting in the sky. Some on the ground. If you want a 50 room mansion of gold, you simply think about it and it materialises before you.

You are all very powerful immortal beings.

All loved by God.

When you return home you will remember it all again.

Before you were born they put a "veil of forgetting" over you so that your knowledge wouldn't interfere with your mission in this incarnation.

You actually chose your parents and the life path you would lead, and even the country you would be born in. These were best for your mission be it to teach, learn, or both.

You would have had a guide (chi) with you, as you worked out your new Earth life.

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Re: The Only Criteria That Can Take You To Heaven? by Davoneskay(m): 9:59am On Oct 05, 2025

No tribalist shall enter into the kingdom of God.

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Re: The Only Criteria That Can Take You To Heaven? by SlavaUkraini: 10:01am On Oct 05, 2025

Kushites:
You are WRONG.

NOBODY needs to "BELIEVE IN" anything or anybody in order to return home to the Land of the Ancestors, which you call "heaven".

We are POWERFUL IMMORTAL BEINGS.

God made flesh in temporal human bodies.

When the body expires we return home, with our consciousness and awareness intact and expanded to our pre-birth state.

Continue to dey play ▶️▶️▶️

Even your Ancestors are calling you to believe in Jesus Christ

Jesus is the Way, the Truth and the Life

No one comes to the Father except by him

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