Let's go to David now listening in Westminster, California.

Hi, David.

Thanks for calling.

Hi, Patrick.

Good morning.

I had a question.

I wanted to ask you if people that don't believe in God can still go to heaven?

Well, we can say it this way.

Jesus says, I am the way the truth in the life.

No one comes to the Father except through me.

He's really, really clear that salvation comes from him. He also says that unless you repent,

you too will also perish. Now what he means by that, he doesn't mean that you're going to die

in a mortal sense. I mean, we will all die eventually, what he means by that, he doesn't mean that you're going to die in a mortal

sense. I mean, we will all die eventually, but he's referring to the eternal death of being

separated from God forever in hell. So he makes it really clear in passages like that, that if you

don't repent, you are not going to go to heaven. He he says no one can enter the kingdom of

heaven without being born of from above he says this in John chapter 3 when

he's talking to Nicodemus unless you are born of water in the Holy Spirit you

cannot enter into the kingdom of heaven this is one of the reasons that we say

that baptism is necessary for salvation so So if you were to accumulate,

David, all these different things that Jesus says, it forms the answer to your question, and that is

no, if somebody rejects the idea of God, if somebody, by doing so, rejects God's forgiveness. So

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