{"id":24494,"date":"2010-09-12T21:19:00","date_gmt":"2010-09-13T02:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/?p=24494"},"modified":"2020-08-09T21:21:50","modified_gmt":"2020-08-10T02:21:50","slug":"who-must-we-believe-in-to-go-to-heaven-god-or-jesus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/who-must-we-believe-in-to-go-to-heaven-god-or-jesus\/","title":{"rendered":"Who must we believe in to go to heaven, God or Jesus?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\t<h2>Question:<\/h2>\n<p>Who must we believe in to go to heaven, God or Jesus?<\/p>\n\t<h2>Answer:<\/h2>\n<p>The answer is both. You cannot believe in one without believing in the other. &#8220;<em>I do not pray for these alone, but also for those who will believe in Me through their word; that they all may be one, as You, Father, are in Me, and I in You; that they also may be one in Us, that the world may believe that You sent Me. And the glory which You gave Me I have given them, that they may be one just as We are one: I in them, and You in Me; that they may be made perfect in one, and that the world may know that You have sent Me, and have loved them as You have loved Me<\/em>&#8221; (John 17:20-23). The Father and the Son are perfectly united in their objectives for mankind.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;<em>He who believes in the Son of God has the witness in himself; he who does not believe God has made Him a liar, because he has not believed the testimony that God has given of His Son<\/em>&#8221; (I John 5:10).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>If I do not do the works of My Father, do not believe Me; but if I do, though you do not believe Me, believe the works, that you may know and believe that the Father is in Me, and I in Him<\/em>&#8221; (John 10:37-38).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>Let not your heart be troubled; you believe in God, believe also in Me<\/em>&#8221; (John 14:1).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: Who must we believe in to go to heaven, God or Jesus? Answer: The answer is both. You cannot believe in one without believing in the other. &#8220;I do not pray for these alone, but also for those who will believe in Me through their word; that they all may be one, as You,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[20],"tags":[139,49,346,347,73,87],"class_list":["post-24494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-answer","tag-belief","tag-faith","tag-god-the-father","tag-godhead","tag-jesus","tag-trinity"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":17656,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/when-i-pray-to-god-am-i-praying-to-the-father-or-the-son\/","url_meta":{"origin":24494,"position":0},"title":"When I pray to God, am I praying to the Father or the Son?","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"February 2, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Question: I am reading your lesson on Who is God? 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