why are there so many different beliefs if Jesus is the only way to heaven?

Answer 1

it is the belief of christians only. other people have their own philosophies. one should respect the views of others and should not impose one's belifes on others. if people strictly follow the preachings of their prophets, there would be no clash. instead some people are propagating that by embracing their religion only . shun the path of dogmatism.

Answer 2

cultures arise out of the natural environment and the deities that the tribal people create reflect that environment. every culture has a religion and every religion has it own imaginings of an afterlife, a heaven. Christianity is the bastard child of Judaism or as the Christians prefer to put it "grafted on the Hebrew vine". Jesus is the Christian's way to heaven but Jesus is not and never will be the only way for everyone ... unless the human race becomes homogenized into a singular culture and Christianity is ascendant and destroys all other choices. that would be a very messy task entailing the murdering of millions, perhaps billions of people.

Answer 3

If there is heaven, before Jesus came to the earth also there was the heaven. Hence how could Jesus be the only answer to go to heaven. It is height of stupidity that people till date are made to believe these concepts.

Answer 4

Doesn't matter how many beliefs there are. There's only one truth, one true God, one way of worshiping him, the way that he approves. That is why God wants everyone to come to an "accurate knowledge of truth." Here are just some of the scriptures in the Bible to confirm this.

1Timothy 2:4; 2Timothy 2:25; Colossians 1:9,10; Roman 10:2-3; Ephesians 1:17; Titus 1:1; 2Peter 1:2-4

Also please know that Jesus is the only way to life. Heaven is for spirit creatures and the 144,000 that are bought from the earth to rule with him as kings and priests in his kingdom. The rest of mankind who are righteous in the eyes of God will be living in paradise earth.

Answer 5

God speaks to (through) everyone, but each culture interprets what he's told us in different ways. Notice, though, that there are a lot of commonalities in the belief systems. Among them most noticeable is the need to love our neighbor and that killing a person is wrong. Also that when you lie to yourself and others, nothing good comes of it. That is also a commonality.

Jesus allegedly died on the cross for us regardless whether or not we believed, he sacrificed himself for that purpose (otherwise those who never heard the gospel would be doomed). I'm not a subscriber to that belief, it has too many conflicting points (do you have to say you believe or actually follow the New Testament to qualify, what if you say you believe but don't in your heart, etc). I believe in a historical context that Jesus said we all keep coming back to life in a new body (reincarnation). What he offered is a better world for us to come back into again, but we haven't learned yet and so we continue to suffer unnecessarily. The ultimate promise of the Christian belief is that we ascend into a permanent, heavenly body with Jesus and all our family and friends for all eternity. I observed in 44 years that nothing is permanent and change is usually good (sometimes something bad happens first which is why change is resisted for fear of the risk). I believe we all seek to ascend spiritually and enjoy our existence. To remain static is boring, how could one enjoy eternity with no changes?

Read Conversations With God, An Uncommon Dialogue. It's pretty cool, not to be taken too literally, but a lot of truthful sounding stuff in it and makes perfect sense (and it should assuming that God is speaking to us in it).

Answer 6

Everything centers around the idea of accepting Christ as one's personal Savior and consequently being accepted into His Kingdom a.k.a. heaven upon one's demise. The whole basis of this, however, comes Biblically. In any reading there is the potential for a myriad of interpretations. This is true with all books, secular (i.e. The Catcher In The Rye, etc.) and religious both. Different biblical interpretations then cause different groups with common interpretations to form. This is why, for example, United Methodist communion-taking is an "open table," meaning all can participate regardless of denomination, or even complete faith, but rather UMs say that communion requres a willingness to grow closer to God. With Catholicism, however, one must be specifically affiliated with the Roman Catholic Church. Basically, in short, it all has to do with interpretation of the Good Book beyond a relationship with its central character.

If you speak of other faiths entirely, they do not believe that Jesus is the only way to heaven and therefore have no reason to consider your assumption that Jesus is the only way, and therefore they have no motivation to follow that path whatsoever.

Answer 7

Because not everyone agrees that Jesus is the only way to heaven!

Answer 8

Because Satan is hard at work leading people away from the truth.
John 14:6
Jesus answered, "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

Answer 9

I think Jesus came to earth to free us of our sins and bring us to salvation...not to thrust a new religion down our throats. If you really follow Jesus you will understand that different beliefs are fine as long as you are "doing unto others what you will have done unto you". When we meet our makers Jesus will embrace all the people who followed his teachings and accepted everyone just the way he did...not the people who condemn others for having different beliefs.

Answer 10

There are so many different beliefs because people naturally tend to disagree and want to strike out on their own.

Answer 11

When you say "so many different beliefs" do you mean so many different religions besides Christianity or do you mean so many different denominations of Christianity or do you mean something else entirely?