If you believe that people that are not a part of your religion will not be able to go to heaven then what about people that are not exposed to your religion?
Does God make an exception if you live in a 3rd world country and have never even heard of (fill in your religion here), much less follow and believe in it?
2007-11-02 06:07:30 · 14 answers · asked by lhallums82 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
And this is directed at people who believe that only their religion is the right one and that people who do not believe will not go to heaven. And I do not want to hear that no one believes this because people do.........Hopefully you don't.
2007-11-02 06:08:52 · update #1
A Catholic priest, on a mission to convert as many as he can to Christianity, meets an Eskimo, and explains Christ to him.
Eskimo: "If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?"
Priest: "No, not if you did not know."
Eskimo: "Then why the hell did you tell me?"
2007-11-02 06:12:37 · answer #1 · answered by ? 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Technically, the Gospel has to be spread throughout the ends of the earth before the Messiah is to return for the Christian idea of the second coming. Technically, the world is full of diverse people who are blind, deaf and dumb who believe in either G_d, or Yahweh, or Allah or in the Christian G_d head, which revolves around the Trinity, God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit,not to mention the 25,000 plus gods of religions of other regions around the world. Technically, if you have never been under the law or had knowledge of the two commandments of the Christian G_d as viewed through the Trinity then you cannot be held accountable. It is when you come into the knowledge of the law and sin in spite of having that knowledge that the order of the day is repentance or atonement. It is not all about heaven and hell, sometimes it is about the journey. Much of life is improved through religious community based faiths. But I digress, define heaven on earth? Some define it as actually having a spiritual side, recognizing G_d, following and doing right by yourself and others, in spite of your circumstances. Today as I looked out at the mountains and across the sky and breath in the (semi)fresh air, I was in heaven. Did I feel like G_d was there with me. Certainly! Was I really thinking about heaven or hell at that moment. Not really!!! Enjoy the journey it is not all about damnation and stuff like that.
2016-05-27 01:30:37 · answer #2 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I dont listen to Bible Beaters.
As a Catholic we are supposed to believe that only those who follow God can go to heaven. Which is BULL.
If there was someone who is the most caring, gentle person on the earth, but was not a Christian, it would be total BULL for that person not to enter heaven (example- Gandhi..)
Your religion shouldnt determine where you go when you die. If God is ever loving, he should accept everyone in the end who lived their life righteously.
Dont even get me started on the whole gay thing too..
2007-11-02 06:17:49 · answer #3 · answered by Muffins 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The key word for this life is integrity. Everyone is seeking truth in some form or another, even atheists and agnostics. Buddism, Christianity, Muslims, Jews, everyone is seeking some moral truth that helps them to live this life happily and a freely as possible. We will be judged according to the truth that was offered us, the truth that was available to us, and to the truths that we agree to in tho form of covenant and religion. Those who do not learn of Jesus and his mission in this life will surely have the opportunity to learn of it in the next life. A loving God allows all of His children opportunity to accept Him.
Life is better, easier for us when we understand and accept the Gospel and the truths that we are faced with, but no one will be punished for things that they never knew. That is what the concept of "atonement" is. To deny this truth is to deny Jesus' mission.
2007-11-02 07:09:34 · answer #4 · answered by alwaysa(ducky)bridesmaid 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, they will go to heaven.
For all who have sinned without the Law will also perish without the Law, and all who have sinned under the Law will be judged by the Law; 13 for it is not the hearers of the Law who are just before God, but the doers of the Law will be justified. 14 For when Gentiles who do not have the Law do instinctively the things of the Law, these, not having the Law, are a law to themselves, 15 in that they show the work of the Law written in their hearts, their conscience bearing witness and their thoughts alternately accusing or else defending them,
2007-11-02 06:11:21 · answer #5 · answered by PROBLEM 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Yes people who did not get the chance in this life will get that chance in the next. Before the resurrection every person will have had the chance to know about Christ and to accept His gospel or reject it. Any loving parent would do this. How could God be just otherwise.
2007-11-02 06:13:20 · answer #6 · answered by plastik punk -Bottom Contributor 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Your question is one I have asked people who have argued the same way. I was told by one person if you don't believe christ is the savior, you are doomed to eternal damnation. I guess all the jews are screwed, right? It shows you are a free thinker. Keep thinking that way.
2007-11-02 06:15:20 · answer #7 · answered by billblasphemy 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
hey jesussaves...odviously he doesn't because there are many millions upon billions of people that have never heard of him
i don't see how he could with entire cultures that are around and have never heard of him
dont believe everything you read
but your own bible says that those who do not believe in him cannot go to heaven even if they are good people by heart
2007-11-02 06:13:23 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Scriptures are not for everyone, Yahshua did not die for everyone. Some never were invited to the party!
Rom 9:3 For I could wish that myself were accursed from Messiah for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh:
Rom 9:4 Who are Israelites; to whom [pertaineth] the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service [of Yahweh], and the promises;
Rom 9:5 Whose [are] the fathers, and of whom as concerning the flesh Messiah [came], who is over all, Yahweh blessed for ever.
The Adoption, covenants, promises, pertain to physcial genetic stock Israylites, and they are the white people of Europe. That is why all thes other THINGS are trying to destroy us.......but we gonna win soon.
2007-11-02 06:13:11 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Romans chapter one says that God makes himself known to all men
so if a man never heard of Jesus or saw a missionary and his neighbor steals food from him .....is he mad? Yes because he understands part of Gods law and if he steals he breaks Gods law.
God judges them on the light that they have.
2007-11-02 06:09:47 · answer #10 · answered by jesussaves 7 · 2⤊ 2⤋