Results from a LifeWay Research study of teenagers in the United States indicates that many teens are confused about what it takes to get to heaven. More than one thousand teens were surveyed in January and February 2007 by mail questionnaire. Results show that sixty-nine percent of teens believe heaven exists. Also, a majority strongly agree with the traditional Christian belief in Jesus Christ's death for their sins as the reason they will go to heaven (fifty-three percent). While many teens believe they will go to heaven because of their belief in Jesus Christ, one-quarter trust in their own kindness to others (twenty-seven percent) or their religiosity (twenty-seven percent) as their means to get to heaven. Out of the sixty-nine percent of the teens who strongly or somewhat agree they will go to heaven because Jesus Christ died for their sins, sixty percent also agree that they will go to heaven because they are religious and sixty percent also agree they will go to heaven because they are kind to others. That leaves approximately twenty-eight percent of American teenagers who are trusting only in Jesus Christ as their means to get to heaven. (Baptist Press)
