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What is actually required to enter Heaven?

Two separate lists — the Bible's and Islam's. Each list is only as long as its own sources require. Tick the boxes as you see fit, and expand any item to read the explanation and its citations.

According to the Bible

7 requirements, each fully cited

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According to Islam

4 requirements, each Quran-cited

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* Expand the item to read the explanatory notes on wording and sources.

Words of JesusStated by Jesus himself in the gospels.Gospel authorStated by the evangelist writing about Jesus, rather than quoted from his own mouth.PaulineStated by Paul in the epistles. Recorded as scripture by the church, but not a saying of Jesus — which is why it is marked separately here.

The Bible's antichrist testOne explicit, two-part boundary in 1 John — deny that Jesus is the Christ, or that he came in the flesh. Islam affirms both halves.Read the test

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Where Islam leaves room

A Muslim does not automatically reject the biblical requirements. Several of them can be affirmed as they stand — once the words are read in the idiom their own scriptures use. Below, each contested requirement is split into what Islam affirms and what it declines.

Nothing in the Bible forbids reading its own titles in their Hebrew and Greek idiom — scripture does it itself, calling Israel God's firstborn son and Isaac Abraham's monogenēs. The nuance is not an imposition on the text; it is the text's own vocabulary.

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Where the two lists meet

Nothing here is smoothed over. Each matched theme below names the genuine overlap and the genuine difference — including the sharpest one, where the Greek turns out to be narrower than the English translation suggests.