Jesus is the truth. For example, if you believe in treating other people right, if you generally want to embrace that which is good and right and you dislike that which is evil, in sincerity, you have Christ's truth regarding those things. You have accepted Jesus' truth.
2007-06-13 05:50:30 · 26 answers · asked by curious_inquisitor 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
006 - No, I said if you are sincere in your heart, trying to be a good person the best YOU know to do. Then you are following the light of your conscience.
2007-06-13 05:57:33 · update #1
You know when your not doing that don't you?
2007-06-13 05:58:07 · update #2
J P - YOu jumped to those conclusions without understanding the truth.
2007-06-13 06:00:22 · update #3
Derek - If I am applying Jesus' teachings on love you don't think that means anything? If someone is at a place in their life where they just don't believe the theological things about Jesus, when they embrace the truth of Jesus about love and doing the right thing, that counts and I know it.
2007-06-13 06:06:04 · update #4
Lilith - The sincere ones are not doing good things for that reason. Your motivation should be God's love. And your own desire to love others.
2007-06-13 06:11:16 · update #5
Natasha - When you do you are following the light of your conscience which Jesus created you with. Whether or not you believe that Jesus is responsible is beside the point. You are still wanting to do what he wants for you and thats what is important. Not your mistakes. If your sincere, your sorry when you do wrong.
2007-06-13 06:21:02 · update #6
Tracymoo - If you don't believe those things why would that negate your efforts to follow Jesus' teachings on love? Even though you are trying to be the best person you can be, not for God, your still following the light of God within yourself. YOur ability to know, to understand, to make decisions,ect...
2007-06-13 06:36:40 · update #7
I understand that you may think God is irrelevant, however his light is still within you for you to respond to.
2007-06-13 06:41:10 · update #8
evolvedkw -Then we do have the same things in our hearts. IT means we are in agreement about those things. And we are in agreement with the Creator about them. About what he put in us to begin with. So yes.
2007-06-13 08:58:20 · update #9
Alan - Do you follow your conscience and are you sorry when you violate it? With a sincere effort to better yourself and to change? Do you despise that which is evil? You know by the light that is in you, what evil is. And you know what goodness is.
2007-06-13 09:05:39 · update #10
Paul Hxyz - Jesus of Nazareth was(historical fact) and is(faith) a real person. And he taught these things about right living.
"if God created all those people to be tortured forever in Hell before Jesus came along then what's the point"?
Thats not what happened. They were judged according to their response to the light of Christ that they had. And then placed into the Kingdom of God accordingly. The light of the knowledge of Christ or truth about right and wrong is in everyone. At least to some level.
2007-06-13 09:23:57 · update #11
"And if God is omnipotent, why not announce this to the entire world instead of just the Middle East"?
God has had a plan from the beginning. Learn what it is and trust him regarding it. He knows what he is doing.
I believe the more I learn about God's plan the more blown away, by how awesome it is, I'll be.
2007-06-13 09:33:07 · update #12
"but telling an atheist that they agree with this is just plain incorrect at best".
Thats just not the truth. I have heard many people who do not believe in God talk about their moral beliefs, about how they strive to be persons of integrity, they give to charity,ect.....
2007-06-13 09:38:29 · update #13
O cool, i can go to heaven without believing in God? awesome. But, how am i gonna find my way there since it doesn't exist?
2007-06-13 05:54:00 · answer #1 · answered by rdigrdig 2 · 7⤊ 1⤋
Every atheist that answers this is going to rip you a new one. There is ZERO historical evidence that Jesus even existed, but there is plenty of SECOND HAND references to his existence. My take on this is a little different - if God created all those people to be tortured forever in Hell before Jesus came along then what's the point? And if God is omnipotent, why not announce this to the entire world instead of just the Middle East? Why didn't the Aboriginals of Australia get the same message at the same time? Because it was a HUMAN message - not a divine one. Jesus wasn't even declared to BE divine until the Council of Nicea in 325 A.D. The examples of Jesus are great, myth or real person, but telling an atheist that they agree with this is just plain incorrect at best.
BTW: I'm not an atheist, but this is wrong.
2007-06-13 12:58:37 · answer #2 · answered by Paul Hxyz 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
This is false teaching. Nobody - regardless of how many good deeds they do or how moral they are - can be "good enough" to enter Heaven of their own accord, because NOBODY is perfect. We are ALL sinners, and our perfect God does not tolerate sin. We must be cleansed by the blood of Jesus. Jesus Christ is the ONLY way to Heaven. If you do not have faith in Christ Himself, you cannot enter Heaven.
Matthew 10:32 "Whoever acknowledges me before men, I will also acknowledge him before my Father in heaven.
John 14:6 Jesus answered, "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
2007-06-13 13:03:32 · answer #3 · answered by Romans 8:28 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Thank you for being so positive :)
I am really trying to be kind, loving and nice to other living beings, of course I sometimes fail, too. I never would hurt someone on purpose.
But I live like this regardless if there is a heaven waiting or not. I don't believe there is anything after death (wouldn't death be useless then?) but that would never keep me from being nice ;)
What do you think, do people who are only nice because of a rewarding actually deserve your picture of a heaven?
2007-06-13 13:00:27 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
It's also the 'truth' of many other religions and 'Gods'.
And I'm pretty sure people liked to denounce evil and embrace the good long before 'Jesus' walked the earth.
Seriously. Can't we all just get along? Stop trying to convert us.
It's rather arrogant.
2007-06-13 12:56:33 · answer #5 · answered by dark_reaction 3 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Heh thats the first time a religious person told me I was going to heaven. To have morals doesn't mean to have religion wish people would start to understand this they are two different things.
2007-06-13 13:03:06 · answer #6 · answered by lilli 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Maybe. No. "Christ" means, roughly, "one whose head is smeared with oil by a priest." It means nothing to me. I can accept "the light of Christ" as an abstraction, but not as a real substance.
There is no heaven, so obviously none of us can possibly go. Thank you muchly for the vote of confidence, though. :-)
Jesus is an unknown factor (the evidence for his historical existence is tenuous); you accept him on faith. We don't have faith, so it's difficult for me to put a truth value on Jesus. Regardless, most of us do value truth and try to live morally.
Again, thanks for the vote of confidence.
2007-06-13 13:05:20 · answer #7 · answered by RickySTT, EAC 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You can call it 'Jesus' truth' if you want, but the notion that doing good works is a good thing, and that trying to avoid BAD things is also good, has been around a loooooooong time, way before Jesus was born.
2007-06-13 12:54:30 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 7⤊ 0⤋
You sound like an early christian gnostic who believes some people have a divine spark. Unfortunately, the majority of Christianties today believe that one of the requirements for salvation is accepting christ as lord....
ps. i dont want to go to heaven with all of the nutters thank you very much.
2007-06-13 12:56:47 · answer #9 · answered by queenie 3 · 3⤊ 1⤋
If you say so. I am a good person, nice to everyone, helpful and gentle, I am convinced that god is fiction and jesus is a myth, and if it feels good for you to think that I go to heaven, enjoy it. To each his own.
2007-06-13 12:58:40 · answer #10 · answered by NaturalBornKieler 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋