If you go ask some people you know, “In your personal opinion, what do you understand it takes for a person to go to heaven?” I’m sure you will receive a lot of different responses. No matter what people say, we aren’t going to get to heaven by “being a good person.” God judges the heart not the exterior, and if the heart has not been cleansed and has not accepted that by faith in Christ’s death and resurrection everyone has the opportunity to have had their sins forgiven, then they aren’t going to get into heaven. No “ands, ifs, or tushes