For thousands of years, Hebrew prophets received and recorded over three hundred Messianic Prophecies. Those prophecies were faithfully written, copied, and spread throughout Jewish synagogues.
The Messiah arrived at the predicted time and place. He gave us all the information necessary for each person to make soul-saving or soul-losing decisions.
He Who Fulfilled the Prophecies founded One Church. In Mt. 16: 18-20, He Decreed: “Verily, verily I say unto you thou art Peter and on this rock I build My Church and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. I give you the keys to The Kingdom of Heaven.”
He did not give those “keys” to anyone else.
Each human chooses: “Will I move to or from The Only Church Who was given “the keys to The Kingdom of Heaven?”
At Judgment, each soul is compared with what it is and what it might have been. Souls who have chosen to be weakened by demons of pride, envy, greed, gluttony, anger, lust, and sloth are “damaged goods”. Those souls sent to hell and tormented forever.
Others have wisely chosen to humbly obey The Only Church Founded by He Who Fulfilled the Prophecies. Those who were obedient enough to be among “You are My friends if you obey My commands.” get to Heaven.
What keeps many from having access to “the keys to The Kingdom of Heaven”?
Pride crystallizes in Protestantism: “I know more than Jesus.” The vain ignore, and encourage others to ignore, His Decree: ‘Verily, verily I say unto you thou art Peter and on this rock I build My Church and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. I give you The Keys to The Kingdom of Heaven.’ That does not apply to me! I know more than Jesus!”
It is best to be obedient and in The Only Church Jesus Founded. How else may anyone access “the keys to The Kingdom of Heaven”?