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WHY IS JESUS THE ONLY WAY TO HEAVEN? Someone has said that religion is man reaching up to God but that Christianity is God reaching down to man. That pretty much says it all, and it summarizes why Jesus is the only way. All other religions involve man attempting to please God with various kinds of good works and rituals. Christianity is God himself completing the work, paying the way, and then offering sinners a free ticket that he purchased with his own blood. The reason that Jesus Christ is the only way to heaven is the simple fact that everyone else is a sinner. Our sin debt was purchased with the blood of Jesus Christ, called GOD'S blood in Acts 20:28. It was the perfect payment and the only payment that could meet the demands of a holy God. Salvation is not about man doing more good than bad; salvation is a matter of man being washed totally from sin and becoming sinless in God's eyes. II Corinthians 5:21 says, "For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him." When a man truly receives Christ as Saviour, he receives the righteousness of Jesus Christ in exchange for his sins. Christ bears our sins on his cross, and we are declared righteous by God. No other man or plan can accomplish that for us, because no other man or plan qualifies by being righteous, or totally sinless. In Romans 4, Paul calls this IMPUTED RIGHTEOUSNESS: "But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness." (Rom. 4:5) Verse eight says, "Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin." A Christian is not merely a man who lives better than before; a Christian is a man who has been declared sinless by God as a result of his faith in Jesus' redemptive work. If he still sins sometimes in the old unsaved flesh, it is not imputed, or accounted, to his righteous soul. Only Jesus Christ could provide this way of salvation, because only Jesus Christ could provide a sinless payment for our sins, his on shed blood and death on the cross. He died for our sins, buried them in his grave, and then rose again for our justification (I Cor. 15:1-4); therefore, only Jesus can save.