Do You Have to Earn Your Way to Heaven?

The dilemma of religion is that if i'm serving god as a way of earning heaven, then i'm not actually loving god or people. That is what atheists point out about religion and they are a hundred % correct. And it's the dilemma of all religion. Based on what you know about the bible, can you actually do something that could earn your way to heaven? No. I mean, the whole point of jesus's life was that we couldn't earn our way to heaven. That's why jesus had to come to earth to do for us what we couldn't do for ourselves. But no command of yours is going to make me love it. Love is one