Do you believe non-believer can go to heaven or people of low morals can too?

Question

I want to knwo your opinion on salvation and how to get it...

Answer 1

Why would someone who doesn't believe in God want to go be with Him forever?!?!
Any one who confesses Jesus Christ as their Lord & Savior and believes He is God & died on the Cross & rose from the dead can go to Heaven. Yes, even people with low morals, I was one.

Answer 2

None of us are righteous, and Jesus hung out with prostitutes, so I definitely think that people with low morals can get into heaven. In fact, it's usually people with low morals who realize how much they need Jesus. It's a little bit harder for people who have led "good" lives to see that they still fall short of God's perfection.

I always believed that non-believers couldn't go to heaven. But I've been reading a book lately, Letters from a Skeptic, by Dr. Gregory Boyd and Edward Boyd. It's a really great book; the son and father wrote letters back and forth to each other, talking about different objections the dad had to Christianity. "There are some people in the Bible who did not know Jesus Christ personally or consciously, but who were nevertheless saved. We know of saints in the Old Testament who shall be in heaven, and the Bible even implies this about several individuals who were not even Israelites (Noah, Job, Melchizedek)... The sacrifice of Christ embraces more than those who consciously embrace it... To 'go through' Christ, then, cannot be exactly the same thing as 'believing in' Jesus Christ." It's an interesting thought, but I haven't had time to really look into it.

C.S. Lewis also seemed to believe this; he had an unbeliever get to heaven in The Last Battle. The character, Emeth, had always been seeking his god, and always trying to do good things. He was willing to face death, if only to see the face of his god. Aslan, the representation of God in the series, allows him into heaven, because Aslan knew Emeth's heart, that he was really seeking Aslan, not all of the evil things that the other god represented. It gives me hope that those who have not heard the gospel or who are incredibly devout in their religion, passionately seeking for the truth, that even if they don't find it in their lifetime, maybe God will show them mercy and let them enter into heaven.

Answer 3

Both non-believers and people with low morals can get to heaven. The only one we know made it was the thief on the cross next to Jesus. He admitted he was a thief and that Jesus had done nothing wrong. "Remember me when you come into your kingdom," he said. No baptism. No community prayers. No hocus-pocus.

As for salvation -- if you're sure you are one of the saved, you are in danger. The path of salvation is the path of living in "the fear of the Lord" as mentioned over and over again in the proverbs.

Grooving on the certainty of your salvation is a trap. It'll make you ignore the poorly dressed beggar you saw today.

Answer 4

In Revelation 14:1 it says "And I saw, and, look! the Lamb standing upon the Mount Zion, and with him a hudnred and forty-four thousand having his name and the name of his Father written on their foreheads." This scripture shows me that God has all of the people who will go to heaven written down. Having His name wrtten on their foreheads shows that they were chosen for a special purpose. They were set aside at birth, and they have been selected by God as his chosen people. However, there is a hope for the rest of us. Those who either take faith in God or haven't known God will have the opportunity to learn more about him in the future. In the future there will be a resurrection of both the righteous and the unrighteous, so there will be people who will be teaching those who don't believe to believe in God and his promises.

Answer 5

Heaven, hell, god and religion are concepts that were created by early man during the early period of mankind to explain what could not be explained through the idea of this god.
Plus mankind has been and still is afraid of dying and so religion and god is usd to put those fears at ease.

Religion is an excuse to exploit the ignorance of mankind.

A great quote about religion::: Religion is regarded by the common people as true; by the wise as false; and by rulers as useful. This is a great quote and everyone should really think about it carefully

Answer 6

If heaven exists, yes, why not, but the choices they make in life determines their suffering on earth. The word moral is subjective, it means something different to each person, and people have different physio-psycho response to events in their life. For example, if a person lives a life of self repression against their own human nature they reach a breaking point and drop into a delusional state of moral uncertainty, shame, and defeat. They loose a foundation to live by until they learn that we should not live by the moral standards devised by outside sources. Individual standards may vary greatly, and care should be taken to be loyal to your own standards, careful not to create the rules as you go along to justify your behavior, but to maintain a consistent theme in your life which you feel support your primary convictions for the pursuit of a good life. It's up to you to be responsible to others who are affected by your decisions.

Salvation is not an individual ambition. Salvation is to break the chains of oppression from our past by evolving as human beings and passing that legacy to future generations to overcome all forms of injustice and tyranny. No man lives on an island.

Answer 7

The only way to heaven is through Christ Jesus, so a non-believer cannot go to heaven. If a perosn with low morals is a believer then he can go to heaven too.

Answer 8

certainly not..because if u want heaven u have to earn it..heaven is not like a hotel where u can enter whenever u want just like that..only god decides who deserve to be in His heaven..so the only way is u must believe that god exist..do everything that He likes and leave anything that He dislikes..whoever that have low morals will have lower chance to go to heaven..

Answer 9

as a mormon, i personally believe you can. I believe that there are different degrees of heaven. If you dont believe, or except jesus then you might go to a lower degree. But where ever you are God will make sure your happy.

Answer 10

If you want salvation and a moral code, the first step is to burn your Bible. The book is pure filth from Genesis to Revelations. Rape, murder, pestilence, starvation, natural disasters and genocide all brought to you from a "kind and loving" God.

Talk about irony...
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