Hey all.
Is it possible to be accepted into Heaven if you love everyone except for yourself?
Asking for a friend.
Show your friend this, as their question is irrelevant, loving people and/or yourself
will not save you. Even non Christians love each other and themselves etc.
John 3:1-21 NKJV
[1] There was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews.
[2] This man came to Jesus by night and said to Him, "Rabbi, we know that
You are a teacher come from God; for no one can do these signs that You
do unless God is with him."
[3] Jesus answered and said to him, "Most assuredly, I say to you, unless
one is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God." [4] Nicodemus said
to Him, "How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time
into his mother's womb and be born?"
[5] Jesus answered, "Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born of water
and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. [6] That which is born
of flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
[7] Do not marvel that I said to you, 'You must be born again.' [8] The wind blows
where it wishes, and you hear the sound of it, but cannot tell where it comes
from and where it goes. So is everyone who is born of the Spirit."
[9] Nicodemus answered and said to Him, "How can these things be?" [10] Jesus
answered and said to him, "Are you the teacher of Israel, and do not know these
things? [11] Most assuredly, I say to you, We speak what We know and testify
what We have seen, and you do not receive Our witness.
[12] If I have told you earthly things and you do not believe, how will you believe
if I tell you heavenly things? [13] No one has ascended to heaven but He who
came down from heaven, that is, the Son of Man who is in heaven. [14] And as
Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up,
[15] that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life.
[16] For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever
believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. [17] For God did not send
His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might
be saved. [18] "He who believes in Him is not condemned; but he who does not
believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the
only begotten Son of God.
[19] And this is the condemnation, that the light has come into the world, and
men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. [20] For
everyone practicing evil hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his
deeds should be exposed. [21] But he who does the truth comes to the light,
that his deeds may be clearly seen, that they have been done in God."