Christians... do you believe that non-Christians will join you in heaven.?

Question

Or will Pete send them on their way?

10 - You vigorously deny the existence of thousands of gods claimed by other religions, but feel outraged when someone denies the existence of yours.
8 - You laugh at polytheists, but you have no problem believing in a Triune God.
1 - You actually know a lot less than many atheists and agnostics do about the Bible, Christianity, and church history - but still call yourself a Christian.
4 - You believe that the entire population of this planet with the exception of those who share your beliefs -- though excluding those in all rival sects - will spend Eternity in an infinite Hell of Suffering. And yet consider your religion the most "tolerant" and "loving."

Not my words, but most of you need to read it again & again & again... Untill one day you realise you were wrong. But you might have a hot pitchfork up ya by then.

Its nice to see the thumb police on the ball. There really is a God.

Answer 1

If there is a God and a heaven, it follows that God created all men and creatures and a place for them to live. From our experience, we know that the life of human beings is of finite duration, after which their bodies wear out and they die.
The question of ‘what happens to humans after their death’ has been exercising their minds since the begging of time. From this has arisen the concept of God because we hate to accept that our life has no enduring meaning or purpose. We would like to believe that there is life after death. So our birth had a purpose, it was not an accident, and an intelligent and powerful Being is behind the creation. That Being is God; and this concept provides a great consolation to us as we struggle through life, make tremendous sacrifices, and undergo great sufferings.
We need to believe that we go to a good place after our death, where there is eternal fulfillment, a place better than Earth, a place called Heaven. NOW, if one God created the entire mankind, and it must be so because what is common is our humanity, and not where we were born on earth, whether we believe in ANY religion or NO religion. We are all the children of ONE common God. That God would give us all a chance to go to heaven after death regardless of our beliefs because we are His children and He loves us.
In short, one Humanity, one God, Earth for All, Heavens for All; unless you want to replace a Loving God with a Parochial God, a Lesser God, which would be a shame.

Answer 2

Yes.

From teh catechism of the Catholic Church:

The Jewish faith, unlike other non-Christian religions, is already a response to God's revelation in the Old Covenant. To the Jews "belong the sonship, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the worship, and the promises; to them belong the patriarchs, and of their race, according to the flesh, is the Christ", (Rom 9:4-5) "for the gifts and the call of God are irrevocable (Rom 11:29).

. "The plan of salvation also includes those who acknowledge the Creator, in the first place amongst whom are the Muslims; these profess to hold the faith of Abraham, and together with us they adore the one, merciful God, mankind's judge on the last day.

Those who, through no fault of their own, do not know the Gospel of Christ or his Church, but who nevertheless seek God with a sincere heart, and, moved by grace, try in their actions to do his will as they know it through the dictates of their conscience - those too may achieve eternal salvation.

Answer 3

Lets not get mixed up in RELIGION or what groups of people are calling themselves.

Bottom line is this:

John 3:16 - For God so loved the world, he sent his only son, whoever believes in him, shall not perish but have everlasting life.

Romans 3:23 - For all have sinned and come short of the glory of God.

Tit 3:5 not by works done in righteousness, which we did ourselves, but according to his mercy he saved us, through the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Spirit.

We cannot make it to Heaven on our own, even though many will try, we all have a debt that we cannot pay.

God knew this and sent his Son to die on the cross for us, paying our debt, giving us the opportunity to either accept or reject Christ.

Answer 4

The Jewish concept of heaven or Olam Haba is different from the Christian concept of heaven for many reasons the main one, in my opinion, being that eventually everyone gets into Jewish heaven after compensating for their sins, including non-Jews. The way that people compensate for their sins is going to hell, but don't worry it's not permanent. The length of your stay in hell is relative to how good or bad you were when you were alive. So if you were good you might be able to bypass it and if you were really bad you might have to stay there for a maximum of 12 months.
The Jewish concept of hell unlike the Christian concept of hell does not include devils with pitchforks. The Jewish concept of hell is best explained by the following legend: Hell is a giant movie theater with only you and God sitting in the audience and the movie playing is a movie of your entire life. God watches all your good deeds and bad deeds and the embarrassment of God seeing everything you have done wrong is punishment enough. After a grueling trip to hell you will arrive at heaven and they say that a second in heaven feels as good as all the goodness you experienced when you were alive combined. I will describe heaven with the following legend: Heaven is a big Yeshiva (school) and the teacher is God. The position of your seat in the classroom is relative to how good or bad you were when you were alive. So if you were really good you can get a front row seat for God's lessons and if you were really bad you might get stuck in the back. Right now your probably thinking WTF I live my whole damn life only to end up back in that horrid place but don't worry it's just a legend not a definite fact. However, the pleasure that you get in heaven is relative to how good or bad you were in life this is best described by the following legend: There are two heavens, one for the good people and one for the bad people, and both of them are exactly the same. In the heavens there is a huge all you can eat buffet with every type of food that could possibly exist the only catch is that instead of arms all the people in heaven have unbendable meter long forks. As you can imagine it would be very difficult to get food in your mouth if you had meter long forks instead of arms. In the heaven for the bad people the people are all starving trying to put food in their mouths but in the heaven for the good people the people are so used to being good that they feed each other. Once you're in heaven you can't change seats in God's classroom unless the people who knew you that are still alive , by doing good in your memory or by sitting Shiva (mourning you), get you brownie points with God. So make sure you teach your kids to give lots of charity!

Answer 5

In C.S. Lewis's Christian allegory novel "The Last Battle", the characters arrive in heaven to discover one of their earthly enemies also present. This man worshipped Tash, a demon, rather than Aslan, the true "God" character in the story. So they wonder what he is doing there. He wonders himself, and he says to Aslan, "There's some kind of mistake. I'm not one of yours, I belong to Tash." Aslan tells him, "Everything you ever did in your life, when you thought you were serving Tash, was actually done in my service. Nothing good can serve him, because he is only pleased by what is vile." The man says, "But I've been seeking Tash all my life." Aslan says, "Unless it was really me that you wanted, you wouldn't have sought so long and hard and faithfully."

I am a Catholic Christian, but I don't expect that there will be nobody in heaven but Catholics and other Christians. In fact, the Catholic catechism specifically tells us that we cannot issue verdicts on who will or will not be saved, as this is a private matter between God and each individual soul. Jesus warned us that many who give him lip service will be left outside, while many we would dismiss will be admitted to the feast. God reaches out to human souls directly, through the action of the Holy Spirit, and the Spirit "blows where it wills". I believe that it's easier for us to find and recognize God, and easier to understand what he wants of us, if we have the help of belonging to a community of believers, and we certainly need all the help we can get. God gives us help and grace and everything we need, through his church. But simply belonging, in name only, doesn't mean we are in touch with that grace. And simply being outside the church, while it makes it more difficult for God to reach you, doesn't mean he can't reach you. All things are possible with God.

Answer 6

Look at the responses. No, they obviously do NOT, or there would be no point in wasting your life as a "Christian."

"All the unbelievers will wish they'd accepted Jesus." Can you get any more petty, condescending, vicious, arrogant? Are these "Christian" values?

The reason this ideology is so popular, of course, is because it removes all personal responsibility for one's own conduct. All that's required is "faith" in the idea that God had to send His own son to earth to be sacrificed so that his blood could somehow vicariously atone for the rest of us having been conceived sexually. In other words, it only requires that one make oneself a complete imbecile while expressing remorse for one's humanity. Hence the popularity of Jesus in prison and rehab.

Even accepting "Christian" theology as true, I reject it all. If "God" is such a sadistic, amoral monster as He's painted by His masochistic, amoral devotees, get Thou behind me God!

Answer 7

I refuse to believe that a just God would send anyone away who has been a righteous person. What about Gandhi? Buddha? Unbaptized babies? I personally think that many non-Christians deserve to go to heaven more than many so-called Christians who believe that if they go to church once a week, they will go to heaven because all their sins are forgiven. It's more important to act in a "Christian" manner, whether or not you've ever even heard of Christ.

Answer 8

Pete has nothing to say! and there were people saved through their beliefs before Jesus Christ came to show all a way back into our father grace, so yes these people before Christ walked the earth would be saved also. Those that deny Jesus said somethings along this line once - If you deny me before mankind I shall deny you before my father! AMEN.
Hope this was helpful.

Answer 9

Everyone will have a chance to accept or reject the Gospel. And we must remember that the Lord has said that he takes no pleasure in the destrction of the wicked.

Answer 10

The only people going to Heaven are born again Christians who follow and obey the Lord.