All religions in Heaven?

This Jesus is the only way comment is a misunderstanding. This crap has got to stop. Such prejudice is largely based on the following verse from the New Testament ergo eimi ha hodos kai ha alatheia kai ha zoa; oudeis erketai pros ton patera ei ma di emou ‘I am the way, the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father expect through me.’ (Matt. 14:6) However, this is a rather slender peg on which to hang one’s religious intolerance. Especially since the original Greek renders the verse a bit differently than cited above- although the above translation is the one you would probably find in the Bible. The Greek word erketai is extremely present tense. So, rather than ‘comes’ as the word is rendered above, it would more accurately be ‘can presently come.’ This, of course, changes the whole meaning. Jesus is actually saying, ‘I am the way, the truth, and the life; no one can presently come to the Father except through me.’ Thus, Christian exclusivity becomes absurd. Unlike the interpretations pushed upon us by Bible-thumpers- who say that surrender to Jesus is the only way, for all time-Jesus simply said that he was the way presently, at that time, in Palestine 2,000 years ago. Says Dr. Boyd Daniels of The American Bible Society, ‘Oh, yes. The word erketai is definitely the present tense form of the verb. Jesus was speaking to his contemporaries.’

When you die, the omni-flavorful FSM provides everyone with a beer volcano and a stripper factory. If you adhere to the pirate code, you get good beer and hot strippers. If you don’t, you get Budweiser and 2nd rate strippers.

When we die there is 2 possible places for the spirit to go to await the resurection. A place called Paradise and or a place called spirit prision. People that go to Paradise must have died as and infant or have been Baptised by the proper authority and then lived and kept all the comandments of God. Both are better places than this but the requirement must be met.

ha tough one, I believe in heaven, im not orthodox and I dont even go to church, but you know I just think I am, its weird me and my cousin have talked about stuff like this before, hurt my head

no only those who actually believe and love the one and only God will go to heaven, all the others will be going doowwwn to hell, no second chances.

I believe that its going to depend on what religion you are I mean if you dont bliev in god and just the devil well I mean were els do you expect to go but then again god made us all so I don’t know

Yes, that was a good post by bbb. It just goes to show what happens when you make the slightest mistake translating what’s in the Bible.

bbb - Your post was great and makes a lot of sense. Some (actually many) bible quotations are taken out of context. I believe people of any religion can get to heaven if there is love in their hearts and they are unselfish towards all.

I believe in the Holy Bible, and it says that any that are born again, may enter. It says that Jesus Christ is the only way.

I do not belive in heaven I think its al imaginary what we want to think, hell on the other hand nah I dont belive any of them…there is probebly just purjatory…I recon you just go into an eternal sleep for the rest of your life…

About you Heaven and Hell response. Which religion is this from? About heaven and Hell being things we are going through now? Just wondering? Never heard that before.

I believe that heaven and hell are symbols in mythology, representing the wonderful and terrible times we go through right here, right now

Even athiests can go to heaven. If I’m wrong then I guess we just die. Oh well. I do believe it doesn’t matter if you are hindi or jewish or athiest that God allows all to come to Him. Now if you went and interrupted your honest life with something unforgiveable like murder then you codemn yourself to hell because it won’t be something you can be in peace with. You can only be in heaven if your at peace with yourself.

One thing is for sure, we will know much more than we do, one minute after we breathe our last breath.

The bible gives an example of one man and what he faced, and experienced, what he felt, what he wanted to happen, etc. If that is not enough, I don’t know what else it would take to enlighten someone.

“I believe anyone, no matter the religion, that has accepted the Lord Jesus Christ as their Savior is Heavenbound !! - see John 14 : 6 - it’s not the ‘religion’ that saves you…Take care !!”

amblessed, this is just too funny! It doesn’t matter what religion you are, as long as you accept jesus? Wouldn’t that make you a christian then? You really do provide some excellent comic relief on this board…

Airlines do not discriminate based on religion. Anyone can buy a ticket and go up to heaven.

That’s called reincarnation.

heaven only exists in the minds of believers, and most believers think that their religion is the only one that’s true, so according to christians ( for example ) they’re the only ones going to any sort of heaven.

Heaven itself is not a teaching that is even found in all religions. Most do have the concept of an afterlife, but that’s about the only similarity. The Vikings, for example, believed that one’s honor during life on earth, as well as bravery and skill in battle, determined how eternity was spent.

Given my agnostic beliefs, I don’t think it’s ever possible for us to know if there is a heaven, or even an afterlife.