Yes, with one exception: Christianity.
The vast majority of religions do say that good people go to heaven and bad to hell, so try your best, be better than the person next to you, and you will be fine. Christianity, however, says the exact opposite.
The Bible teaches that our nature is corrupt and our wicked actions flow forth thus rendering us wholly incapable and unwilling to keep God’s commandments, much less achieve the absolute perfection that He requires to enter into the presence of His perfect holiness. The Bible also teaches that God loves his people, fulfills his own law in the person of and though the work of Christ and then transfers Christ’s merits to us when Christ suffers the penalties for our sins in a double exchange.
In this exchange a two-fold transfer takes place: God imputes our sin to Christ and punishes Christ for it on the cross; God also credits us with Christ’s perfection and gives us the rewards, such as eternal life, to which Christ is entitled. Of course some churches claiming to be Christian have said, and continue to say, the same as the rest of the religions. The Medieval Roman Catholic Church formulated the sentiment in the phrase “to those who do what is in them, God does not deny grace” and modern expressions of this sentiment might take the form of “Do your best and God does the rest” or something to that effect.
All of this is contrary to the Bible, which says you can do nothing but that God has already done everything on your behalf, transferring the penalty for your sin to Christ on the cross while simultaneously crediting you with the benefits of His perfect life at His resurrection.


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