If you were to ask your friends how to get to Heaven, you would probably receive as many answers as the number of friends you have. Someone would probably suggest that you should keep the Golden Rule; someone else might say that you need to live up to the Ten Commandments; others might advise that you should pray, or give to the church and the poor, or that you should ?just do the best you can.?But when you are dealing with something as important as eternal life and Heaven, you need more than just the opinions of friends. You need the truth!When we look into the Bible we read, ?Jesus said, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.... Ye must be born again? (John 3:3, 7).?Born again?? That may sound strange to you. What does it mean? To explain this, let?s look at what the Bible has to say.God?s Word, in the first place, is very realistic. It teaches that no one can gain entrance into Heaven by good works or even religious practices. The Bible reveals our true condition: ?There are none righteous, no, not one.... For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God? (Romans 3:10, 23). Our personal experience also teaches us that we all have broken God?s laws and have not even ?done the best we can do.?The biblical diagnosis for our condition is clear. We, by nature, are described as being ?dead in trespasses and sins;? ?alienated from the life of God;? as ?having not life? (Ephesians 2:1; 4:18). Ju

Scheel, Richard