Answer: NO. Even Satan believes in Jesus! Believing in Jesus is just common sense. History knows Jesus existed. To not believe in Jesus is ignorance. The question is "If I believe Jesus is the Son of God, was born of a virgin, preached He was the Messiah, preached He could forgive sins, preached He would be killed and resurrect, and by His shed blood all mankind could have eternal life, will I go to heaven?". The answer to that question is NO! But it is the starting point.

The way to heaven is to be born again, and then live your new life in an active faith in Jesus Christ until your very last breath of earth air.

So now the question is: What does it mean to be born again? I can tell you it's not by a magic prayer, there's no secret formula, and there's nothing you, or anybody can do for you to deserve it. Those who are born again have responded to My calling them to Jesus. John 6:44 No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day.  I don't call everybody. In fact, I don't call most. Those I do call can tell by their curiosity to understand or to find Me. The fact you're reading these very words is a testimony to your calling. A word to the wise: Let this exposure be a blessing to you by responding to the prodding of the Holy Spirit. Ignoring Him will only lead to Him ignoring you.

Being "born again" is an experience of conviction that falls upon the hearts of men and women in different ways. For some the experience is a life shattering event, for most it's a sobering beginning of a new life. In all cases the person finally comes to recognize their "deadness" in sin. No matter what their status or success in life, they come to understand how empty and worthless they are as human beings. They finally admit to themselves they can not control their desires to choose wrong over right. They finally recognize there must be something missing in their very DNA. These are the labor pains of the born again experience, and they are first eased by the act of repentance.

What does it mean to repent? Repentance is admission and a reversal of direction.

The admission part is a "Getting it off your chest" experience. To finally admit you're dead in your sins, and to finally ask for, and receive forgiveness for your lifetime of rebellion against God and his son Jesus Christ. This first act of repentance is taking all your sin, all your problems, all your shortcomings, and wrapping them up in a big bundle of burdens and rolling them off your shoulders onto God's. This is the value of coming under Christ's shed blood. This is what being forgiven does. It moves you out from under your burdens, out from under sin, out from under eternal death. But repentance of your sins is just half of the equation. The other half is an action, an action of faith. The word repent means to turn in the direction you're going, to literally turn in your tracks and go the opposite way. In other words, repentance means nothing if you don't change your way.  Being forgiven of your sins doesn't mean you can now willfully continue in them, it means you must now willfully begin to reject doing them. And this is a process you will never get perfectly right while you're still on earth, but with the help of the Holy Spirit you will get it "righter" as you go. In short, practice makes perfect, eventually.

After repentance comes acceptance. Asking and accepting Jesus to come live in you, and begin to change your corruptible body into incorruption. Like picking up a piece of radioactive material, your body's chemical make-up begins to change. In that case for the worse. The point is, you can't see it happening at first, but it's happening. When you get Christ-life in you, a change even more powerful begins in your body. A change that brings new life, and eternal life. But the physical change is only the icing on the cake, the valuable change is spiritual and eternal. That change comes when your soul and spirit receive that first breathe of life that fills the halls and lights up the temple of your body, it's that part of you which was born empty and dark under sin. Christ-life is Light. And now that light is residing in you. You're now a new life form. You're now born again. You're now a babe in Christ, and like all babies you need the food, nutrition, and guidance to grow up healthy and to sustain you in your journey towards eternal life.

Faith is that food that sustains. Faith is how you keep your connection to the life and light giving power. Faith is the work of Saints. Faith makes the impossible possible. Faith is the birthmark of the born again!

What is faith and how do I "have it"? Hebrews 11:1 Faith is the substance of things hope for. Faith is the evidence of things not seen. Many have misappropriated faith by calling it "belief", and selling it, as "the power of positive thinking". Faith is so much more than positive thinking. Faith is rooted in the promises God made to mankind. Faith is making a connection with those promises and applying them to your life. Faith looks at the circumstances created by sin and Satan right in the eye and saying "God damn you, I'm going through!"

As I said, all are born into sin. Sin is Satan's prison camp. When you're born again and your sins are covered by the blood of Jesus, you're literally being busted out of prison. Now think about that...while a prisoner is in prison he is relatively left alone to serve his time. If that same prisoner escapes what happens? All the prison guards leave the prisoners who are still in lock-up to find that one who escaped. In other words, THE HOUNDS OF HELL ARE SET LOSE TO TRACK YOU DOWN AND DRAG YOU BACK TO PRISON! Being born again is a prison break, and you should expect all Hell to break loose around you. The good news is: 1 John 4:4 "Greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world". Meaning, when Jesus is living in you by faith, you're equipped to fight and win the devil and his demons that are in control of the world.

Back to the original question: If I believe in Jesus will I go to heaven? No, it takes more than belief, it takes faith. You can believe an airplane will fly you to another place. Faith means getting on the plane and letting it take you there. Faith is Pistis in the Greek. Pistis is a verb. Christian faith should be spelled like a verb, "Faithe". What is a verb? A verb is an action word. Faith is an Action, based on a Belief, supported by the evidential Circumstances that God keeps His word. That's the ABC's of faithe. The more you act in faithe, the more you can see God working. When you've seen this enough times, pretty soon you're no longer being convinced, but rather you are actively engaging it with the full assurance that God will see you through, and the saving grace of Jesus Christ will continue to be imputed to you as Christ righteousness. Don't wait another second to activate your faithe.
                                                   
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