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M$1 July 18, 2009 12:37 AM

Would you want to enter heaven if it only allowed one group of people?

When I say one group of people I'm talking about heaven only allowing a specific religious group.
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July 18, 2009 12:45 AM
Ya know...
I spent about a year living in Jerusalem and pondered this very question.

When I would sit up on the hillside and look down on the walled city, it just looked like a labyrinth of sealed off compartments where one religion locked itself from another. The jewish section sealed off from the Muslim. The Christians each with their own sects.
It reminded me of high school... all those clicks.

I'm a very spiritual person, don't get me wrong.
I just feel that the world would be a better place if more time was spent incorporating others into our lives instead of isolating them.

So, to answer your question, no. I wouldn't want to go if only a certain religious group were invited.

If all the religions are just clicks, and only one is allowed into heaven... I hope the 'stoners' get to go.

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July 18, 2009 02:50 AM
I am going to answer, "No". It would almost be imposable to have such a thing take place for there are so many different religous groups and many different beliefs.
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July 18, 2009 04:13 AM
In my philosophical mind, from what I've read about human religious thought on Planet Earth, from all the views, all the people, all the ideas... the above concept would be a paradox.

So truly that is my answer.
I can not answer that question.

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July 18, 2009 06:30 AM
Well, heaven is better than the alternative. But I think people should be allowed in no matter what their religion, as long as they believe in God. Or A God or what ever they believe in. I think it is important to think that there is a positive.

Like I already had a kitty die a few weeks ago, and now we found 4 new kitties, and the only girl kitty is dying tonight. Hopefully she passes, I feel so sorry for her, all I can do is cry and pet her. And tell her it is okay, just close your eyes. (No vet is open at this time of night) So I am hoping she goes to Kitty Heaven tonight
http://i168.photobucket.com/albums/u168/thekazzes/catheaven.jpg

Sorry just upset. Anyways. I really don't know, I think heaven sounds nice, but if it is going to be so judgmental I dont think it would be exactly what I think it is. So I think I would not want to. So what if my religion happened to be the group that was picked. Its not right. There are tons of people who have lived a better life than me, just because they are not in my religion does not mean they are not good people.

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July 18, 2009 02:50 PM
NO. All Religions should be allowed to enter the Gates Of Heaven.
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July 18, 2009 05:10 PM
well yeah cz its still gona b waayy better than hell!

Although i would think it was a massive injustice and as i am more spiritual than religious i doubt i would be in the ''chosen'' group anyway

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July 18, 2009 05:28 PM
In any scenario where there is an actual Heaven and only the believers in one particular religion get to go there, I'm not going to be one of those who get the option to go anyway.

However if for some reason I was offered the choice...

Well I can imagine two possible ways I'd feel...

a) "This is a horrible way to run a cosmos. I'm afraid I can't endorse that."

b) "This seems a horrible way to run a cosmos. But WTF do I know? If there was ever an occasion for a touch of humility and accepting that maybe some Being knows better than me, this is it."

Actually in any afterlife scenario, probably your perspective on everything would change radically, and there's no knowing what you would think or do.

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July 18, 2009 08:13 PM
Heaven as opposed to hell, yes, definitely. However, I believe that Heaven will be full of all different religious groups as long as the individual is a born-again Christian and has followed Christ during their life on earth.

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July 18, 2009 11:28 PM
I would not want to enter heaven if only one group, based for example on race, was allowed. That would not be the real heaven

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July 19, 2009 12:03 AM
I'm going to say something some people may scoff at, but heaven IS NOT FOR RELIGIOUS PEOPLE!!! It is not a matter of what kind of people are allowed in, but who is excluded. In the first place, religion begs the questions of existance, purpose and people who hover around the same solutions make up the variety of religions we see in the world.

So, to separate or acknowledge people of like minds and thoughts, seekers put names on religions like Buddhism (we are god), Hinduism (there are 300 million gods) and others. None of the founders of these religions claim to be God nor did they die for their follower's sins or transgressions as did Christ.

But Christianity (Jesus Christ is God) differs from religion in that it's founder Jesus Christ claims to be God. Heaven is not an exclusive club house, it is a place for people who have acknowledged that the price for admission has been paid for in advance by the Son of the LIVING GOD who is Jesus Christ.

If you have more questions or do not understand this response, feel free to ask me. I am John Henderson
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July 19, 2009 05:41 AM
Forgive me if I misunderstand you... so what you're saying is only Christians go to Heaven? Last I asked my Muslim friends believed Yeshua was a great prophet but not God. Also, my Hindu friends, and three other religions types think the same too...

Also, other than the gospel of John can you find anywhere that Yeshua says "I am God"? I know that line in the gospel of Matthew but its not a direct quote from the man himself, rather a he said kind of thing..

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July 19, 2009 06:11 AM
can't edit- or for that matter anywhere that Yeshua says "I am the son of God" other than the gospel of John?

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July 19, 2009 01:33 PM
You have asked if there is, other than "the gospel according to John" another place in the bible where Christ calls himself God. In the Christian faith, we accept all 66 books of the bible and each of them as an important piece of the overall proof of how God has tried throughout history to reach man.
Proof of the claim that Jesus is God can be found in the ressurection account and in the number of fulfilled prophecies. Using statistical probability in Science Speaks, Peter Stoner calculates that the fulfillment of just eight prophecies is a statistical probability of 1 in 100,000,000,000,000,000 or 1 in 10 to the 17th power (see Stoner, Peter W. Science Speaks. Chicago: Moody Press, 1963). To help us understand this staggering probability he provides the example of taking 10 to the 17th power silver dollars and laying them across the face of Texas. The entire state would be covered with silver dollars to a depth of two feet. "Now mark one of these silver dollars and stir the whole mass thoroughly, all over the state. Blindfold a man and tell him that he can travel as far as he wishes, but he must pick up one silver dollar and say that this is the right one. What chance would he have of getting the right one? Just the same chance that the prophets would have had of writing these eight prophecies and having them all come true in any one man, from their day to the present time, providing they wrote them in their own wisdom."

The chance of one man fulfilling 48 prophecies is 1 in 10 to the one hundred and fifty seventh power. Jesus uncannily fulfilled at least 48 prophecies. The odds of this happening are infinitesimal. There is no explanation but that an intelligent God inspired the writing of these prophecies, effectively "planting them," and then fulfilled the prophecies in the incarnation of His Son, Jesus Christ!
It takes too much time to argue about the truths to establish Christs diety and is an ongoing debate. At 60 years of age, I have experienced many different religions and can tell you that when you actually discover the compelling truth of Christ in your life, the search will end, because it has changed me from a rattlesnake to a gentile giant. That is how I know that Jesus is who he says he is!

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July 20, 2009 12:00 AM
Of course! this is Heaven we're talkin' about people!! do you want to end up in the opposite direction?!

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