do catholics, protestants, Muslims, Jews, and other christian based believers go to the same heaven?

Answer 1

Heaven is eternal life with God; communion of life and love with the Trinity and all the blessed (everyone in heaven would be together).

Heaven is the state of supreme and definitive happiness, the goal of the deepest longings of humanity.

With love in Christ.

Answer 2

I guess that would depend on whether one's conception of heaven is a place or a state of being. If it's a place, you could have divisions... I remember a joke about a wall being in heaven and someone asking what it's for and the punch line is "oh that's for the ....... (insert the Christian denomiation you wish to pick on), they think they're the only ones up here."

If heaven is the state of being with God, and since, despite our differences the Christians, Muslims and Jews all believe that there is only one God, then if said believers do enter heaven, then they would be with God and therefore in "the same heaven."

I'm a Catholic and the Catholic point of view of salvation outside the Catholic Church for other Christians (at least all those who profess the Nicean Creed, ie believe that Jesus is the Son of God, one of three persons of the Trinity) is simply that even in the communities and churches of separated brethren, because it is the one Christ we all profess, means of salvation are present (yet through the one Church of Christ - which finds its fullest expression in the Catholic Church).

For those of other faiths, Muslims, Jews, etc... we believe that those who through no fault of their own have never heard of Christ and the message of salvation through him, and who seek to do the will of God and who live according to the dictates of their conscience (that is a conscience geared toward the good and with a good will... not one that looks simply to protest the teachings of a moral authority), can be saved in ways known only to God. It is said that the good things in other religions are from God, but yet still one can not say that means of salvation exist in other religions.

Personally, I there are two dangers that can arise when one asks a question like this. First, one might be looking for an answer that seeks to consider all religions equal and to then say that everything is relative. This is a mistake often made with the very good intention of wanting to respect the beliefs of others and to affirm that which is good in other religions. Personally, I think that since the notion of truth requires a correspondance to the actual state of reality, it is possible to say, when examining different faiths, that one is more true or one is less true than another. Yet, it must be kept in mind that such a judgement of religious beliefs should not then be transfered to a judgement of believers, ie using "truth" as club to beat down others and raise onself above them. Respect of the dignity and intrinsic worth of each human person should be kept in mind.

The other danger that I think such a question raises is the possibility of trivializing religion to only being a matter of where one goes after one dies, as if faith and religion are not primarily about how one lives. Speaking from my own Catholic point of view, enterance into heaven is not just an end of life issue but something that takes place in a still incomplete way during the course of one's life. Since heaven is union with God, this union (made possible in Christ and through the sacraments of the Church which the Holy Spirit operates) is something that begins on earth. So, Madonna wasn't that far off when she sang that "heaven is a place on earth." That is, for Christians, heaven begins here on earth.

I hope this helps.

Answer 3

definite you're appropriate He does want we get alongside. Catholics and Protestants are Christians yet Jews and Muslims at the prompt are not as they do no longer worship Jesus Christ. Jesus reported in John 14:6 "i'm the way, the actuality AND THE existence. no you may COME TO the daddy except by ability of ME." From His personal words, the purely thanks to God is through excepting Jesus Christ as our Saviour. when you're nerve-racking about how restricted it sounds to have purely one thanks to God, we ought to continually be retaining "thanks God, for providing a advantageous thanks to you." He got here to earth to change into the purely appropriate sacrifice and die for our sins, so as that we may be able to come into the presence of God and performance a personal relationship with Him. The Jews nonetheless stay through the former thoughts, and the Muslims have self belief that Jesus turned right into a prophet, if it particularly is the case then why do not they pay interest to what Jesus reported and follow Him, through replacing to Christianity and change into particularly kept. God Bless us All!

Answer 4

I'm having my ashes put on the compost heap so I can continue to grow good vegetables after I'm gone. That's heaven enough for me. I have no desire to go to the one touted by the god-botherers, they will all be there, or so they tell me. That would be a dreadful way to spend eternity. Give me the compost heap.

Answer 5

yes & no...

YES: those who truly followed Judaism teachings till Jesus Peace Be Upon Him came may go to the same heaven the true Christian followers of Prophet Jesus Peace Be Upon Him till Prophet Muhammad Peace Be Upon Him came may go to, and the true followers of Prophet Muhammad Peace Be Upon Him may go to the same haven also........
NO: but those unfortunate jews & christians today who dont believe in Prophet Muhammad Peace Be Upon Him has to admit first to the Prophetood of Prophet Muhammad because by rejecting him as a Prophet they are rejecting the teachings of their own Prophets Jesus & Moses(as the Bible & Torah "old testament" has clear prophecies about Prophet Muhammad's coming).....which means today's christians & jews are not true followers of the respective Prophets.
I use the word "may" go to heaven because at the end its Allah(God) who decides whether a person deserves to go to Heaven or not.
This viewpoint is of my religion, Islam.

Answer 6

there is no such place as heaven, but they will all be put back into the same earth where they will be food for the worms and other creatures living under ground

Answer 7

It has been conclusively proven that Catholics and Protestants go to different heavens. See http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RMzA82H-Qo .

Answer 8

Yes because we all have the same faith that all believers will meet in heaven.

Answer 9

Long before the universe comes to an end they will be gone.
Where?
Eternal bliss.The absence of all worry ,for eternity,and it will never happen again!

Answer 10

You asked this question in the zoology section, so the answer is NO