2007-08-10 06:41:11 · 12 answers · asked by not_omniscient_enough 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
If a person is honestly mistaken about God, I think God forgives honest mistakes. But God will know just as we know whether our inner motives are honest or not.
But is this good person honestly mistaken or does this person reject God? People reject God because God would be an authority over them, like parents are for children, for example. We have this desire to be masters of our fate and captains of our souls and so we reject God.
The Christian idea, I think, is that heaven is not the reward for seeking God. God is the reward for seeking God and heaven is just a place where God will be united with those who want Him.
2007-08-12 00:43:37 · answer #1 · answered by Matthew T 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's a debated question in Christian theology.
Most orthodox Christians would tell you that faith in Jesus Christ is the only way to eternal life and salvation FROM eternal separation from God. That's because NO one can meet the standard required for a "perfectly good life" (i.e., "all have sinned and come short of the glory of God, Rom. 3:23). Jesus Christ, being in very nature God, was the only man to achieve this.
There is some fudging around the edges though. What about babies never born? Or infants who have died and never made a conscious decision to sin? Or people who have died never hearing the message of Christ and having the chance to act on it? Some denominations make some theological room for these cases.
2007-08-10 13:55:06 · answer #2 · answered by Bryan A 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Unfortunately, according the world view of most Christians, you will still go to Hell due to original sin, that only Jesus can remove from you. My suggestion: Live a good life still, even if it's just to spite God. People who deserve to be in Heaven will not stand to watch truly good people burn for eternity at the hands of a "just and loving" God.
2007-08-10 13:50:46 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I read an article once that said somewhere in the bible jesus talked to a pagan priest and told him that some pagans would go to heaven and some christians wouldn't. I don't remember where the article was but I'm 99% sure the verses were in Mathew.
2007-08-10 13:46:30 · answer #4 · answered by Netti 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
leading a perfect life is in no way the key to heaven, or to God. Belief in God is the key to heaven. Obviously if you've heard of heaven then you believe in the bible. in the bible it says whoever believes in him will not parish but have eternal life. get it, Whoever believes in him, not whoever has a perfect life.
2007-08-10 13:50:13 · answer #5 · answered by Conservative American 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Some people in this world who have never heard of the love of Jesus nor have heard of the gospel at all but have lived up to the light that they know...I believe will be saved. If you had known the truth but didn't walk thru it then you're accountable(no matter how well-lived your life is). We're all gonna be judged according to the light that we have received.
2007-08-10 14:02:50 · answer #6 · answered by sterling 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, I asked my aunt the same thing yesterday, she said in the bible it states that God said good morals wont get you into heaven(or something to that effect)
2007-08-10 13:48:44 · answer #7 · answered by Cilantro 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Of course..in fact god he/she gets annoyed with the people who wear their religion on their sleeve and try and convert others.. i had a vision once where Jesus spoke and said the Evangelicals really ticked him off
2007-08-10 18:33:24 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is only one way to heaven and that is through Jesus Christ. It is not by works you are saved but by grace!! Sorry to tell you this but no one is perfect besides Jesus.
2007-08-10 14:26:39 · answer #9 · answered by Jen 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I would think so because Christ said "What you bind on Earth is bound in heaven." You are bound by your personal belief.
2007-08-10 15:15:37 · answer #10 · answered by Shintz62 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋