Romans 10:9 affirms, “If you declare with your mouth, ‘Jesus is Lord,’ (note that Lord does not necessarily translate to God) and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.” However, this faith must be sincere and transformative. Jesus warns, “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Father” (Matthew 7:21). Salvation is not secured by a one-time event but by a continuing life of faith. Jesus said, “The one who stands firm to the end will be saved” (Matthew 24:13).The Apostle Paul, in 1 Corinthians 6:9-10, writes: “Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality, nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.” Likewise, Revelation 21:8 offers a sobering list of those who persist in grave sin without repentance: “But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the detestable, as for murderers, the sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their portion will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur. In Romans 14:23 (ESV) Paul teachers “For whatever does not proceed from faith is sin”.
In the Bhagavad Gita, the good afterlife is liberation from rebirth is the misery of this world.“Having attained Me, the great souls are no longer subject to rebirth in this miserable world, because they have reached the highest perfection.” (Gita 8.15)
