Yes. Just before Jesus allowed himself to be arrested and executed, he said this to his friends:

“Don’t let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God, and trust also in me. There is more than enough room in my Father’s home [heaven]. If this were not so, would I have told you that I am going to prepare a place for you? . . . you know the way to where I am going.”

“No, we don’t know, Lord,” Thomas said. “We have no idea where you are going, so how can we know the way?”

Jesus told him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one can come to the Father except through me.” (John 14:1-6)

Jesus was very clear about the only way we can come to God and enter heaven: through him. There is no other way. Heaven isn’t like a city which might have hundreds of different roads leading into it. Heaven is God’s own house; so he sets the rules on who can come in (like we might decide who can or can’t come into our homes). As we’ve just read, Jesus very clearly said: “I am the way”. Not “a way”, “the way”.

Why is he the only way? No other religion, person or lifestyle can make us perfect (which is the standard for entering heaven). Only Jesus can make us fully clean and blameless before God. That’s why he is the only way. Anything else will always fall short.

Heaven only has one door: trusting Jesus.

— Chris, an Our Daily Bread reader