If heaven is a real place, does it have a door? If it has a door, then does it have walls? A door would be useless if there were no walls. If it has walls, does it have windows? If it does have a door, what type of door is it? Is it a small, narrow door or a huge wide one? If heaven is a place where only good people get in, how doe they keep “bad people” out? Guard dogs? Barbed wire fences with barking guard dogs?
If it has a door is it locked? If it’s locked how do we get the key? If it has a key, who has the key? Who would be qualified to keep the key to heaven? What if he lost they key? If heaven has a door, what would it be made out of? Wood? Steel? The scriptures say it’s make of pearl. Lets see and hear what Jesus said about the door:
9 I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture.
John 10:9 (KJV)
Is There More Than One Door?
Jesus didn’t say “I am a door”, he said, “I am the door”. If he is the door, then the word “the” excludes all others. It appears Jesus wasn’t worried about political correctness here, about offending other groups. Jesus, in John 10:9 above said some remarkable things:
- He first identified who is ( the door).
- He identified what His purpose is to each one of us in the form of an “if then” conditional statement:
- IF any man enters in, THEN he shall be saved AND shall go in and out, AND shall find pasture. The verse is a promise in the form of a logical syllogism.
The prerequisite is that the person by his own choice, without coercion, chooses to enter in, to walk through the door, the passage, the path, the only path to pasture.
If there was more than one door, then those doors would be required by sheer numbers alone would be required to be different. If they were different, then those differences between those doors would be inherently contradictory; in that case, the law of non contradiction says that whenever two conditions contradict, one must be false. If one of those doors (ways to heaven) is false, then that would mean that God Himself would have tolerated falsehood, in which case He would have sinned by violating His own commandment; ultimately, then He would not be God. Our God – the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, has made it simple enough anyone can understand and be saved.
The Door to Pasture
In John 10:9 Jesus promised we would “find pasture”. Interesting His promise implies we were sheep; not a real great compliment since they are not particularly intelligent and prone to wandering.
Shepherds would protect their sheep at night from wolves or predators by first rounding them up into a pen, then the shepherd himself would become the door by laying himself down across the doorway to block any of the sheep from wandering out, or any predator from coming in. Jesus is the good shepherd, who lays down His life for the Sheep.
Wouldn’t it have been nice if Jesus compared us to some intelligent, sleek animal, that could take care of himself? Yet, a sheep can’t change its nature anymore than a leopard can change its spots; neither can we change our nature, that we’re prone to sin. Other wise, why would our human nature, apriori – in all cultures seek to atone themselves in some fashion.
Jesus is the Door
Jesus claimed that He is the door, not just the door to the sheepfold, but the very door to heaven. No one can enter without going through Him. But what gives Him the right you ask, to monitor the very door to heaven?
The book of Revelations says that God required the Angelic beings to look for a person who was worthy to open the scroll. He found no one, except Jesus, who lived without sin.
God did not ask that we die to go to heaven, to kill ourselves, blow ourselves up; rather, He sent his son to die for us; having paid the price our entry through Jesus the Door is already paid; when can enter… or not…by our own choice.
He holds the keys to hell and death
Jesus publicly humiliated the devil when He died on the cross, went to hell where the devil found no fault in Him, then rose from the dead… however, when Jesus rose from the dead, He also took the keys of hell and death the bible says. It’s kind of like Jesus, the strong man, outsmarted the bad guy into letting Him into his house, then when He got in, He cleaned out the house and took the keys to boot. Jesus, owns hell and death. He has the keys. If He didn’t own hell, the He wouldn’t be God. Think about it. This is a magnificent plan that only God could have devised. Jesus comes to earth, born in a feeding trough to poor peasants, grows up doing miracles, gets crucified ( the devil is partying down thinking he just took out Jesus ) but this was the devils worst nightmare. He was ultimately, permanently, forever defeated and subservient to Jesus the Christ and Lord. Jesus holds the keys to hell and death; He is the door.
But I don’t’ believe in all your Jesus’ stuff…
You say, I don’t believe in Jesus, your God or your Bible you say? I doesn’t matter. What you believe doesn’t change the eternal / apriori truth. If it did, it wouldn’t be truth, since it would be subject to change. A truth that is true now, but false an hour or a year from now was never the truth to begin with.
The risk here is this: If I’m right, then you spend eternity in hell, just as Jesus said… however, if you take the chance and ask God to show you if He is real, if Jesus really is the door to Heaven, He will honor your request, even if you are filled with doubt, fear or other funk. God is love. God is faithful. Trust Him. That’s an extremely small risk, with nothing to lose but your pride (which isn’t very useful to begin with). He is the light of the world, and the Door to Heaven, just enter in, its’ free for the asking.
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