Think again.

If it were easy, everybody would be doing it.
Yet they aren't. A new Pew Research poll recently released indicates that The Hard Truth is not a truth that everybody accepts, is properly taught, or even understands. Check it out for yourself.
http://religions.pewforum.org/reports
Digest some 250 + pages of data should you choose to read that far, and you'll find that the long and short of it is this: A vast majority of Christians polled do not believe that faith in Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior is the ONLY way to obtain eternal life.
Is this wrong? Is this contrary to The Hard Truth?
To answer this we need to begin in our understanding of what exactly this Hard Truth actually is. We'll see as its revealed if the majority of "Bible believing Christians" polled are in fact wrong that faith in Christ is not necessary.
In the last post a comment was made that the Truth is going to be hard to believe. In fact it will come across as foolishness. Something contrary perhaps to much of what we are taught, and for some of us, even offensive. Much to your surprise however, its the most important thing you will ever know or believe. So lets get started.
The first element is this:

Every single one of us, every human being, whether we act to deny it to ourselves or not, is eternal.

Talk of death in more than a trivial way, and you're into the taboo in our culture. From the moment we are born to the last breath we take, our lives are made up of trying to understand and discover what happens to us when we die. Every ancient civilization has right and ritual to mark death and nearly all have tradition that talks about and makes account for an after-life. We ourselves search endlessly for ways to prolong our physical appearance, stay alive longer and fight the effects of aging in order to prolong the inevitable time fuse which started when we were born. It was as if instinctually we know that we are headed somewhere else into eternity. And we feel the draw of eternity in all of life, like the blind boy who can't see the kite but holds onto the kite string while the kite's in the air. He knows its there. He feels its pull.
The after-life is in fact very real. Search deeply enough, we find that our own soul echos that truth as if written on our very hearts, like a long lost memory of childhood.
We will go on past this life. The body dies but you will continue as you. To believe otherwise is to hope for either never having to face death, which is inevitable, or to hope for your own obliteration, which is impossible for the eternal. The fact is you will continue. What happens when you enter into eternity depends on your relationship and position with the one who makes that determination.