Christians. Do you believe that Heaven is filled with only christians?

Question

Because they believed in Jesus. Do you believe that god would send the other 5/6 billion people to eternal punishment for not being gullable to believe in Jesus. "Forgive them father for they know NOT what they are doing". Sound familiar...that quote proves that god does NOT send those who do NOT believe to hell. Those who do NOT believe think that Jesus is made up...they don't know HE IS REAL so in that case they don't know they are actually rejecting the son of god...and as jesus said...forgive them... just like he said to the romans who were crucifiying him...because they did not know he was actually the son of god. God can only hold us accountable for what WE KNOW. Not for what we don't know.

Luke 23:34

Answer 1

Yes

Answer 2

You say for those who are not "gullable" enough to believe in Jesus...admitting that these people DO have the information but choose to ignore it.
I don't know what happens to people after death. I do know that Jesus said He is the truth the light and the WAY and only those who believe in him will go to heaven.
I believe it is for everyone to decide for themselves, but to call those who believe in Jesus, gullible is insulting.
You also said people think he is made up...again so they are denying Jesus, even though they have heard of him...so making a choice.
It is for God to decide and judge, not for me

Addition: Why would people who don't believe in God worry about whether they are going to Heaven? which they don't believe in?

You posted something about this on another question I asked.

I respect your opinion, and was just giving mine. I do not appreciate being called gullable because of my belief in Jesus, to me it is the same as belief in God, the trinity. There is God, Jesus and The Holy Spirit.
you have a right to believe in whatever you want :) But you asked a question and my answer is that if people are given the information about Jesus and they truly deny it then perhaps God will not let them into heaven. Do i agree? it's not for me to say.
God will do what He chooses too, and I hope all good people get to heaven.

Answer 3

There is neither Jew or Greek(racial), there is neither bond nor free(social). There is neither male nor female(sexual): for ye are all one in Jesus Christ Galatians 3:28 Well as soon as they did it they realize he was the truth then 3 days later he rose and they really was stunned not to believe in Christ is that person choice but the blood is what saves you so by not believing they can not be saved the wage of sin is death so no matter how many it is what it is it's their choice and as far as for those people living in that time God didn't hold them for that they did go to hell until Jesus died and went to hell for those 3 days he ministered to them and unlocked the gates and free those ones that did not know but after that we knew from the apostles about The Lamb of God

Answer 4

I've asked a similar question before and the general response was "Yes, you're going to hell unless you follow Jesus Christ". Which is just so ridiculous. Especially when you consider it's a LOT more than 5 or 6 millions souls. That just how many are currently on earth. What about all the souls that have lived & died over thousands of years? How many gazillions would that be? Are THEY all damned too? By the Christian tenet, yes. Christians are evil.

Answer 5

Well as a Christian, I feel that I am responisible for my own salvation. I don't know what God expects from someone else. All I know is what he expects from me.

Do I think that he is unfair? Nope. I feel that if someone never knew of Jesus, that God would forgive them and except them. I think he knows us in and out and he knows what we struggle with and what are great at.

Do I think that people who deny him, even being brought with information about him too their feet, and still deny, or even try to except will go to heaven? Well I don't know. I am not God. Would I except someone, If I were God, I absolutely would. So I don't think anyone could even answer this

Answer 6

Yes...but, I do not believe it is the narrowly defined word Christians...that fundamentalists will try to have you believe.

I believe, many people of many faiths will be in heaven...even if they worship a God that is called by another name...I think God is big enough and can reach beyond our limited ideas of what he is or is not.

So, I believe many are Christians...eventhough fundamentalists don't consider them so...and will be surprised to see Buddhists, Muslims, gays, Catholics, and many others in heaven.

Answer 7

Wow, that is a REALLY good point.
And for everyone who says the info was brought to them and they deny it there for they DO know....The romans where brought that same information and Jesus still asked for thier forgivness.

Answer 8

What don't you understand about : Reject Jesus, go to hell.

Answer 9

You have an excellent point.

What about the people who died before him?

This is the Islamic version
Sheikh Nuh Keller dealt with this in the attached article [from:
http://www.masud.co.uk, a brilliant site], a refutation of the idea of the 'universal validity of all religions,' saying:

5. The Fate of Non-Muslims in the Afterlife

The reason that contemporary writers affected by the writings of Gunon and Schuon, such as Chittick and Gai Eaton (or such as Martin Lings, Titus Burckhardt etc.), seem to want the universal validity of all religions at any price, even to the extent of attributing it to masters like Muhyiddin ibn al-`Arabi ("in principle") or Emir `Abd al-Qadir ("he protected the Christians against massacre by taking them into his own home because he understood" [as if other scholars considered massacring them halal]) would seem to be the emotive impalatability of followers of other religions going to hell. Where is the mercy? Would Allah put someone in the hellfire merely for worshipping in another religion besides Islam? This question is answered by traditional Islam according to two possibilities:

(1) There are some peoples who have not been reached by the message of the Prophet of Islam (Allah bless him and give him peace) that we must worship the One God alone, associating nothing else with Him. Such people are innocent, and will not be punished no matter what they do. Allah says in surat al-Isra',

"We do not punish until We send a Messenger" (Koran 17:15).

These include, for example, Christians and others who lived in the period after the spread of the myth of Jesus godhood, until the time of the prophet Muhammad (Allah bless him and give him peace), who renewed the call to pure monotheism.

The great Muslim scholar, Imam Ghazali, includes in this category those who have only been reached with a distorted picture of the Messenger of Islam (Allah bless him and give him peace), presumably including many people in the West today who know nothing about Allah's religion but newspaper stories about Ayatollahs and mad Muslim bombers. Is it within such people's capacity to believe? In Ghazali's view, such people are excused until after they have had an opportunity to learn the undistorted truth about Islam (Ghazali: "Faysal al - tafriqa," Majmu'a rasa'il al-Imam al-Ghazali, 3.96). This of course does not alter our own obligation as Muslims to reach them with the da'wa.

(2) A second group of people consists of those who turn away from God's divine message of Islam, rejecting the command to make their worship God's alone; whether because of blindly imitating the religion of their ancestors, or for some other reason. These are people to whom God has sent a prophetic messenger and reached with His message, and to whom He has given hearing and an intellect with which to grasp it but after all this, persist in associating others with Allah, either by actually worshipping another, or by rejecting the laws brought by His messenger (Allah bless him and give him peace), which associates their own customs with His prerogative to be worshipped as He directs. Such people have violated God's rights, and have accepted to go to hell, which is precisely what His messengers have warned them of, so they have no excuse:

"Truly, Allah does not forgive that any be associated with Him; but He forgives what is less than that to whomever He wills" (Koran 4:48).

In either case, Allah's mercy exists, though for non-Muslims unreached by the message, it is a question of divine amnesty for their ignorance, not a confirmation of their religions validity. It is worth knowing the difference between these two things, for one's eternal fate depends on it.
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Answer 10

God doesn't punish. God didn't send anyone to Hell. Those non-Christians CHOSE to go to Hell. They had a choice. God gave them that choce, and they made it. Or somesuch nonsense like that.