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Do you believe in an intelligent creator? You have to start there. Heaven is a revealed fact, not a material fact like the composition of water. It's not something reason can describe on its own because we can't see it, observe it, test it, etc. So before you ask for proof of revealed facts, you have to accept revelation as a valid mode of knowing. I don't believe in heaven because it has been photographed and documented but because God told us about it. So to get back to the question: do you believe in an uncaused cause, a prime mover, an intelligent creator behind the universe?

There is a hierarchy of truth. We can't prove heaven until we prove God, and then until we prove that He reveals Himself in the Christian religion. I'm willing to help you work through the steps if others will help.
 
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Hi love,

Actually, I'll make it even more simple for you than what Jared has proposed. Find out who Jesus is. Once one establishes in their heart who Jesus is, either liar or Lord, the rest will all fall into place. Heaven will be either the foolish imaginings of men or ...

God bless you
In Christ, Ted
 
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love101 said:
What reason/s should I accept that heaven is real? What proof is there, and why choose your heaven over other heavens from other faiths?
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Only God can prove to you that heaven exists. It's like having a blindfold on and asking someone to prove to you what color they are wearing? They have to take the blindfold off you and so you can see. Only God can take your blindfold off so you can spiritually see. Faith comes by the word of God. Be humble and willing to seek God and you will find him. Read the book of John (a good place to start)and pray asking God simply: "If you are there, show me!" Seek and you will find, knock and the door will open. Jesus stands at the door of your heart and knocks. You have to be willing to open it.
Once you believe in Jesus, then you will believe his promises of heaven. When you die, you'll see heaven. But you can also experience the kingdom of heaven while alive. He can change your life, give you a new life so that you can see differently. You'll have a different perspective, a new hope and direction, purpose and meaning. Heaven is what we look forward to, I can't wait!
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love101 said:
What reason/s should I accept that heaven is real? What proof is there, and why choose your heaven over other heavens from other faiths?

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The Lord Jesus was once asked for proof. He replied:

Luke 16:31
“He said to him, ‘If they do not listen to Moses and the Prophets, they will not be convinced even if someone rises from the dead.’”

You have the books of Moses and the prophets in the bible, these foretell events with astonishing accuracy many years before they happened. PLUS you have the testimony of someone rising from the dead. An empty tomb is there to prove our saviour lives.

The life, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ are the most attested historical events in human history. So much so that our entire calender is based on that fact!

We are in the year 2012! 2012 years since what? 2012 years since the birth of Christ. Jesus Christ- the hinge of history. History is HIS STORY! There is so much evidence that Western civilisation is based on it.

Amen:amen:
 
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Kudos on the above post. The more we are given, the more we will be accountable for. It would have been better for many had they never heard of the Bible or Jesus.

Just to play some more, let's toy with Pascal's wager. IF there is a Christian Heaven, whose entrance hinges on belief, you lose nothing and potentially gain everything by so believing. On the other hand, if you believe in any other faith, all their "Heavens", if they have one at all, are conditional upon how "good" you are. Thus the orthodox Jew, Muslim, Hindu ect will say that a Christian that lives a "good" life will earn favor.

There is one and only one faith on earth that conditions salvation strictly upon belief: Christianity. Not to believe is a foolish choice.

Now, that is not a proof, but it is an interesting ironic twist from the father of wagers/statistics and a very fervent Christian.

TGFITU, the Christian formerly known as JR
 
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love101 said:
What reason/s should I accept that heaven is real? What proof is there, and why choose your heaven over other heavens from other faiths?

Thanks.
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What do you believe? The Bible speaks of Christian Heaven; 853 Times
Rev.21

  1. [1] And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea.
  2. [2] And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.
  3. [3] And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God.
  4. [10] And he carried me away in the spirit to a great and high mountain, and shewed me that great city, the holy Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God
Choose which Heaven you believe in or Not Up to you?
 
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Ronald said:
Only God can prove to you that heaven exists. It's like having a blindfold on and asking someone to prove to you what color they are wearing? They have to take the blindfold off you and so you can see. Only God can take your blindfold off so you can spiritually see. Faith comes by the word of God. Be humble and willing to seek God and you will find him. Read the book of John (a good place to start)and pray asking God simply: "If you are there, show me!" Seek and you will find, knock and the door will open. Jesus stands at the door of your heart and knocks. You have to be willing to open it.
Once you believe in Jesus, then you will believe his promises of heaven. When you die, you'll see heaven. But you can also experience the kingdom of heaven while alive. He can change your life, give you a new life so that you can see differently. You'll have a different perspective, a new hope and direction, purpose and meaning. Heaven is what we look forward to, I can't wait!
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Faith in Heaven requires faith in Christ.

This comes by hearing the word of God through preaching.

How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher? And how shall they preach, except they be sent? as it is written, How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things! But they have not all obeyed the gospel. For Esaias saith, Lord, who hath believed our report? So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God. But I say, Have they not heard? Yes verily, their sound went into all the earth, and their words unto the ends of the world. But I say, Did not Israel know? First Moses saith, I will provoke you to jealousy by them that are no people, and by a foolish nation I will anger you. But Esaias is very bold, and saith, I was found of them that sought me not; I was made manifest unto them that asked not after me. But to Israel he saith, All day long I have stretched forth my hands unto a disobedient and gainsaying people. (Romans 10:14-21 KJV)
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There is only one way to Christ, not be works, not by being a good ol' boy. Only this way:

That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. For the scripture saith, Whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed. For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek: for the same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon him. For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.(Romans 10:9-13 KJV)
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