Do you really believe God wants you to join a particular religion to get into heaven?

Question

I mean....he created you all, i doubt hed say "Believe this or burn in hell!"

CJ so the people who dont believe in Jesus will burn? So many have died who never knew of him...

Don H, While god is planning youre salvation he seems to have forgotten all about millions of other people

I dont understand how you can answer no to this question and then use bible verses or say to follow Jesus

Answer 1

if heaven is full of people who are trying very very hard to convert everyone's belief, by shouting out phrases like "amen!", "jesus saves!", praise god!" out of nowhere, and by using capital letters on Normal Words, and by quoting paragraphs From "holy" book written by normal Human, then i Rather go To hell.

Answer 2

I believe He wants us to accept truth and the sacrifice of His son which was made for us. I also beleive that since all religions teach different things, they can't all be true. Thus, I guess I do beleive that God wants us all to join a particiular "religion" to get into heaven. However, I also believe that God is infinitely patient and merciful and whether we join that religion during this life or in the next is up to God. After all, so many billions have never had a chance to accept any religion, let alone Christianity. It would be manifestly unjust and unloving if all of those were consigned to eternal torment. And God is NOT unjust and unloving. That is one thing that really floors me about some "born-again" Christian sects. They seem to relish in their belief in a vengeful, unmerciful, unloving god. It seems utterly satanic to believe such a thing.

Answer 3

i believe if that were true , than most the world would go to hell. If God as our father were to burn and torture his children forever , without any hope of redemption, would,nt that be concidered a monster? It really bothers me ,that people actually believes that only christains,catholics,seventh day adventist,etc, claims that other cultures such as buddist and hindus, which clearly serves the Lord in every thing they do, are going to hell, because they practice a differnt way of devotional service. God just wants us to love and serve Him. Christains claim that Jesus is the only way. They seem to forget that at the time of Christ appearance, He was the only way. Scince that time another avatar has appeared, like everything else, sometimes God will send His associates, his most intimate friends to come here and reastablish our distorted practices and non-practices of religion. Just because people all over the world are different, and have differnt ways of approcing and serving The Lord, our father, i have serious doubts that God will reject them and torture them for the rest of eternity, that would be obsurd and narrow minded of us to think like that.

Answer 4

I'm an agnostic. This, of course, means that I don't believe that God, if God exists, can be known.

Let's, for the sake of argument, say that God exists, and knows all there is to be known of the human condition. That being the case, God must know that he is "unknowable."

He must also know that a great many of us, desperate for something certain to believe in, will speculate upon the nature of a divine being, and invent answers that seem to quell the anxiety arising from the speculation.

He would also know that humans are clannish, and have a tendency to gather in groups of like-minded individuals who would reinforce the belief in the answers that they had invented, and look upon those outside the group with suspicion and fear.

Since the invented answers in many cases involve themselves with the idea of eternal life those inside the group would reward themselves with a pleasant eternity and punish those outside the group with an unpleasant eternity.

God, if God exists, must think us rather pathetic and silly.

Answer 5

Your view of religion is Catholic based...and untrue.

God wants us to study the Bible and properly understand it.

(Romans 6:23) For the wages sin pays is death, but the gift God gives is everlasting life by Christ Jesus our Lord.

Wages is full payment, whatever the rate, whatever the job.
Sin is simply ' falling short' of a standard.
So when we die, however we have fallen short is FULLY PAID FOR.

So would a loving god want us to endure FURTHER PUNISHMENT?
I do not think so. At death our punishment is complete.
So the teaching of being tortured or tormented in hell is FALSE.
And "Hell" [ Hades Rev. 20;14] is TEMPORARY.

IT WILL BE ELIMINATED ALONG WITH DEATH

Rev. 21;4

No death = no graves.

So Hell = graves.

Answer 6

I believe that if you are following the teachings found in the religions of the world - the true meanings not what "we' have preverted them into, then we will ALWAYS be in heaven...right here on earth.

God provided us with a road map and a plan, but like a caring parent, allows us to make our own mistakes and provides us the only example of unconditional love.

The God I beleive in is non-judgemental and Hell is what we make of our lives here.

Answer 7

Yes! As an omnipotent super-being, the Lord our God has nothing more important to worry about than what church I belong to. He is also endlessly fascinated by what I eat, what I wear, and what I do with my body. Because I am such an amazing artifact in the universe - as are we all, brothers and sisters - what super-being in his right mind would do anything BUT watch and worry about what people do and believe? Plus, why shouldn't he want to inflict death and punishment on people who mistakenly go to the wrong church? Idiots. They deserve what they get - even if the Lord our God couldn't be bothered to give them a hint about what church they were supposed to join.

We are so very, very important. And humble, too!

Answer 8

NO! lol
Not religion, trust Him. The attitude and the focus is different.

As a Christian I learn what Jesus said - after all, he is the one who started it. I don't give a rat's butt about what religion says, I want to know what the founder said.

And this is what he said:
17 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. 18 Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because he has not believed in the name of God's one and only Son.

Religion can say anything it wants to. But Jesus said specific things that do not include many of the things that religion does.

So what have I shown you? What do you think it means?

Answer 9

Great question. A fundamental issue. A critical issue.

I've used the following dialog before, and find it fascinating. The point is, who are we to say how God will approach us as people? An eternally existent creator can, and will, do what He decides, and how He decides to do it.

"It is this interpretation (Copenhagen Interpretation of the Uncertainty Principle) that Einstein was questioning when he said "I cannot believe that God would choose to play dice with the universe." Bohr, who was one of the authors of the Copenhagen interpretation, responded, "Einstein, don't tell God what to do."

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'High Five'

Answer 10

If what you are looking for is a religion to get you into heaven then you will not make it. What God wants is a relationship. That is why Jesus came, That is what salvation is all about. Making any man who belives and repents of his sins fit to have a relationship with God.