Can anyone explain to me this idiotic statement made by a Christian??

Question

Ok...so 7 of 9 (a Christian) said the following:

"Being saved means that I will see my loved ones in heaven because I get a "get into heaven" free ticket. and anyone else who is in my family gets into heaven as well to..."

How does that make sense? "I believe in Jesus so I get into Heaven and so does everyone else in my family."

My question is "can anyone explain this statement"(paraphrased) as in what are they talkign about?

Answer 1

Perhaps Jesus Christ taught the theme "Love All, Serve All and Wait with Patience" in various ways.

Perhaps "idiocy" is not something ie to be looked down upon. Imagine upon whom the Jesus Christ travelled ????

The Sathya Sai Thought for the Day say,

"Man is burdened with the delusion that the temporary is eternal. Long identification has trained him so; so he has to be re-educated into the right vision. The absolute reality that persists unchanged is this ' I '. All else is unreal, appearing as real. The ' I ' in you is Paramatma (God) Himself. The waves play with the wind for a moment over the deep waters of the sea. It gives you the impression that it is separate from the ocean below, but it is just an appearance - a creation of the two ideas of Name and Form. Get rid of the two ideas and the wave disappears into the sea; its reality flashes upon you and you realise that God is present in man as Love."

- BABA

http://www.radiosai.org/pages/thought.asp

SAI RAM

Answer 2

Some Christians take for a fact that with the only action of accepting Jesus as their savior they are surely going to heaven. I believe that's what he meant.

I personally believe that I have been given the option to go to heaven but not by a simple acceptance but by living in grace. And that is at a personal level.... it doesn't come in family packages.

Answer 3

Stories are told for explaining some object or event. The stories have validity in time and space. If a religion is based on story it can never satisfy everybody.
Religions are based in philosophy. They should be free of time and space. So a statement made in a story is not a fact, If that was true then we should not read Shakespeare, because he was racist, just read the story and try to understand the gist of it.

Answer 4

What this refers to is the Christian idea that God wants to give you a "free gift" of going to heaven if you only believe in Jesus's sacrifice for your sins. The "so does everyone else in my family" part makes sense if their whole family is Christian or if they believe literally in 1 Corinthians 7:14 as Princess Padme listed above.

However, in practice, it's not really a free gift. A lot is expected of you in return, as it turns out, the most serious of which perhaps is a suspension of critical thinking.

Answer 5

That's not true at all..every man (meaning man-kind, not just males) has to except Jesus for him or herself, with the exception of young children who are old enough to make that decision. They would be the only ones to automatically get into heaven

Answer 6

They are basing this on Paul's statement to the Philippian jailor in Acts 16. The man came trembling to Paul and asked: "What must I do to be saved?" And Paul answered: "Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved, and all thy household."

They project Paul's statement to ONE MAN, into a general statement about 'households' being saved. I think it is Scripturally unjustifiable.

Answer 7

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Answer 8

Is this a sample of maximum delusion?
Just because one idiot thinks that a dead guy, from 2000 years ago is real, that his family of murderers, thieves, child molesters and rapists, merely by association, get to receive the All Access pass as well.
Some fantasy lives must be ever so comforting.
Perhaps I should convince myself that something more appropriate than gods is actually real and I, too, will have a mental crutch to rely on.
Maybe drugs IS the answer .....

Answer 9

Now, this is going to sound totally nuts, but here goes. When you want to know about a complex 2000 year old philosophical paradigm, an anonymous goober on Yahoo is not the most reliable place to get your information.

Answer 10

There's going to be a lot of surprised souls when they find out what's waiting for them, after they die. It's amazing what people on Earth will tell each other for the sake of power, attention, and control over one another, isn't it?