Deuteronomy 4:29
To Find God We Must Seek God
29 But if from there you seek the LORD your God, you will find him if you look for him with all your heart and with all your soul.
John 14:6-7
Divine Truth
6 Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. 7 If you really knew me, you would know my Father as well. From now on, you do know him and have seen him.”
John 10:9
Saved by Jesus
9 I am the gate; whoever enters through me will be saved. He will come in and go out, and find pasture.
John 14:1-2
Jesus is The Way, The Truth, and The Life
1 “Do not let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God; trust also in me. 2 My Father’s house has many rooms; if that were not so, would I have told you that I am going there to prepare a place for you?
John 3:16-17
God's Love for the World
16 For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. 17 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.
John 17:1-5
Jesus Prays for Himself
1 After Jesus said this, he looked toward heaven and prayed: "Father, the time has come. Glorify your Son, that your Son may glorify you. 2 For you granted him authority over all people that he might give eternal life to all those you have given him. 3 Now this is eternal life: that they may know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent. 4 I have brought you glory on earth by completing the work you gave me to do. 5 And now, Father, glorify me in your presence with the glory I had with you before the world began.
Acts 4:12
12 Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to mankind by which we must be saved.”
Ephesians 2:4-10
Alive in Christ and Saved by Grace
4 But because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, 5 made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions—it is by grace you have been saved. 6 And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus, 7 in order that in the coming ages he might show the incomparable riches of his grace, expressed in his kindness to us in Christ Jesus. 8 For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God— 9 not by works, so that no one can boast. 10 For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.
Hebrews 11:6
Pleasing God through Faith
6 And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him.
Mark 10:18
Only God is Good
18 "Why do you call me good?" Jesus answered. "No one is good--except God alone."
Mark 2:16-17
Jesus Came to Save Sinners
16 When the teachers of the law who were Pharisees saw him eating with the "sinners" and tax collectors, they asked his disciples: "Why does he eat with tax collectors and 'sinners'?" 17 On hearing this, Jesus said to them, "It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners."
God wants us to seek Him...If we never are looking for Him or never seeking Him, how can we find Him?...He wants us to believe in Him...He wants us to find Him...God wants us to have faith...Jesus wants us to have faith in Him and His Father...Jesus asks us to trust in God, but to trust also in Him...Jesus tells us that this is eternal life: that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom You have sent...To get to heaven and have eternal life, we must know God and His Son -who was sent by Him... Salvation is found in no one else...And maybe in the words of exclusivity -no one gets to the Father, except through Jesus...And getting to heaven is not because of our deeds or that we are a nice person and have led a good life...We are saved by Jesus dying for our sins, and we are saved by the grace through faith -and this is a gift of God...
Jesus teaches us the eternities, and about Love and eternal life...He teaches us that He is the Truth....To get to heaven and to see His Father (and Him) we must get to know Jesus and have Him in our hearts...
There is an atheist's wager that seems to be in response to Pascal's wager...The atheist's wager says that you should live a good life and be a nice person, but leave religion alone...If God is loving and kind, he will forgive you for not believing in him and reward you in the afterlife...If God punishes you despite having been a good person all your life then God is unjust and you shouldn't worship him...
The atheist's wager assumes we are good...Only God is good...Man has a sinful nature and must be saved...That is why God sent His Son to us...Jesus told the Pharisees that He came only for sinners...If you think you are righteous, then He did not come for you...Not only did He come for sinners, but He came to save sinners...Jesus is the One and Only One to save us, and He was sent by God...He says I AM the Gate -and our gate to heaven...
This wager also seems to assume that good deeds and are nice and that God is forgiving...These things maybe true, but that will not necessarily get one to heaven...Faith is not mentioned in the wager...Heaven is the domain of God...Jesus tells us that heaven is His Father's house...We get to His Father's house by knowing God, and through His Son -and having faith...We cannot know God or His Son, if we do not believe in Them...We must have faith...When St. Paul tells us that we are saved by grace through faith -we must have faith to be saved by His Father's grace...We must have faith and believe in God and His Son, to get to heaven...And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him must believe that He exists and that He does, in fact, reward those who earnestly seek Him...
So, for me, I would bet against the atheist's wager and seek, believe, have faith, and get to know the Son and His Father...