Christians: can Jews go to Heaven?

Question

I have Jewish blood (what you would call "heritage") and this question has always intrigued me. So, from the Christian standpoint, will the Jewish people enter Heaven, or are they clumped with the fate of all other non-believers?

Answer 1

Jews aren't complete until they receive the messiah. The Messiah being Jesus Christ who fulfilled all the Old Testament prophecies. Just because you have Jewish blood means nothing. Jesus even said He could turn stones into descendants of Abraham.

Answer 2

First, you have to differentiate between the religion of Judaism (which Christians traditionally consider heretical) and the Jewish ethnicity. Ethnicity has nothing whatsoever to do with heaven, hell or salvation.

Second, you have to differentiate between different kinds of Christians. There is more diversity between some Christian denominations then there is between, say, Eastern Orthodox Christianity and Judaism.

Some Christians believe that Jews who knowingly reject Jesus as the Messiah will not go to heaven. Others believe that Judaism is a parallel covenant, and that Jews will go to heaven. Others believe that everyone will go to heaven. Others believe that only a handful of all Christians will go to heaven.

Personally, I look at the book of Acts, which informs us that the Apostles still worshiped at the Temple in Jerusalem. And Christians were still meeting and worshiping in Jewish synagogues for several centuries after the time of Christ. Both of these facts seem to indicate that, while Judaism may not possess the fullness of the Gospel, it is at least a legitimate religious position.

Finally, Christianity is not necessarily about heaven and hell, even though some denominations may interpret it that way.

Answer 3

Shalom Aleichem. Let's see, are you living your faith? Or are you the kind who graces shul at Pesach and Yom Ha Kipporim (if then). Do not get me wrong, the strict following of Torah is not what I'm into with respect to this question. If your life, as some is, is lived on a barter system, then all bets are off. When we try to "earn" our way into heaven by balancing the scales (which Jesus did) that's really not the right approach. What I'm looking at is heart attitude. Do you want to be in line with G-d and His will fo your life or not. It is said, by Jesus, that many will say that they've done this or that and He'll say "depart from me ye workers of iniquity". It was their heart attitude. What's your heart attitude. Where do you want to wind up when G-d closes the book?

Answer 4

Being a non-believer doesn't have anything to do with heritage. It comes from a refusal to answer God's call to salvation through repentance, water baptism, sanctification and being filled with the Holy Ghost. Any Jew, Muslim, Hindu and etc. who sees the truth in God's words and wholeheartedly embraces that marvelous truth can go to Heaven.

Answer 5

The Jews are God's chosen people. Of course they will go to heaven and much easier than the rest of us. Not every Christian thinks this way, however. They are forgetting that God has a covenant with His people. Jesus came for the lost sheep of Israel and then for the Gentiles. The Jews do not have to "be saved and born again". They were born OK the first time.

Answer 6

Jesus died for everyone, not just Christians. Many Christians will call me a heretic for saying such things, but I believe it. Read the New Testament--it'll tell you that Jesus died for everyone, even if you're (gag) Adolph Hitler or George Bush. I also believe there are different dimensions (or "rooms in the mansion of Heaven") and people have to prove themselves here or when they get there (as in show themselves to be truly contrite for their sins) to reach those dimensions. Some will be sent back to improve themselves; others will fail and fall lower in the dimensions.

Answer 7

Technically, not yet.
According to Judeo-christian tradition, souls are kept in purgatory after the concept of heaven and hell become prevalent over Sheol. The messiah (whom the jews still await) is the one who is to cast the gates of heaven open again, once again allowing the dearly departed a chance to reside in a peaceful afterlife for those who are worthy, or as some theologians believe even those who have been cast to hell will be forgiven.

Answer 8

well, according to the bible (i cant reference specifically, believe me or not), the jews were gods promise people. Jesus was a Jew, so were his followers. It wasnt till after a hundred years or so that christianity was developed, so, according to the bible, as long as u accept christ, it really doesnt matter what race u are...
if u practice the jewish thing, which i know little about, im guessing they dont believe jesus really came, and are waiting for the first one to come...

Answer 9

If they don't believe that Jesus Christ was the true son of God and that he came to earth to pay for the sins of mankind, then no, they will not go to heaven according to christian beliefs.

Answer 10

The Jews are God's chosen people, yet some have rejected HIM:

Luk 14:15 ¶ And when one of them that sat at meat with him heard these things, he said unto him, Blessed [is] he that shall eat bread in the kingdom of God.
Luk 14:16 Then said he unto him, A certain man made a great supper, and bade many:
Luk 14:17 And sent his servant at supper time to say to them that were bidden, Come; for all things are now ready.
Luk 14:18 And they all with one [consent] began to make excuse. The first said unto him, I have bought a piece of ground, and I must needs go and see it: I pray thee have me excused.
Luk 14:19 And another said, I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I go to prove them: I pray thee have me excused.
Luk 14:20 And another said, I have married a wife, and therefore I cannot come.
Luk 14:21 So that servant came, and shewed his lord these things. Then the master of the house being angry said to his servant, Go out quickly into the streets and lanes of the city, and bring in hither the poor, and the maimed, and the halt, and the blind.
Luk 14:22 And the servant said, Lord, it is done as thou hast commanded, and yet there is room.
Luk 14:23 And the lord said unto the servant, Go out into the highways and hedges, and compel [them] to come in, that my house may be filled.
Luk 14:24 For I say unto you, That none of those men which were bidden shall taste of my supper.

However, GOD is faithful to the end:

Zec 12:10 And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplications: and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for [his] only [son], and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for [his] firstborn.