FAT SEXY said:
Does he go to heaven?
Yes. It is obvious that people in the OT didn't know Jesus and they had salvation. Naaman, etc. See Genesis 48 also.
FAT SEXY said:
Does he go to heaven?
If it doesn't, then I am a fool. And wasting a lot of time and money. I am betting my life it does.schmendeler said:
No because heaven doesn't exist
Disagree. The stakes of this are the highest of anything we will confront in our lives. I would call someone a fool who devoted their life to a myth.Dilettante said:
Being wrong doesn't make one a fool. Failing to acknowledge the possibility that one is wrong makes someone a fool.
Dilettante said:
Being wrong doesn't make one a fool. Failing to acknowledge the possibility that one is wrong makes someone a fool.
FAT SEXY said:
Does he go to heaven?
I don't understand the question. What are the two ways it could go?Dr. Mephisto said:Dilettante said:
Being wrong doesn't make one a fool. Failing to acknowledge the possibility that one is wrong makes someone a fool.
Okay.
Does it go both ways?
schmendeler said:
No because heaven doesn't exist
dermdoc said:Disagree. The stakes of this are the highest of anything we will confront in our lives. I would call someone a fool who devoted their life to a myth.Dilettante said:
Being wrong doesn't make one a fool. Failing to acknowledge the possibility that one is wrong makes someone a fool.
As I said, I am staking my life on Jesus. And heaven.
You are free to stake your life on whatever you want. But make no mistake, this is the biggest decision in your life and basically defines who you are and how you live. Goes way beyond the eternal aspects.
Dilettante said:
It's blasphemous, but I like "The 5 People You Meet in Heaven" by Mitch Albom.
one MEEN Ag said:
blissfully joyful, but not in a cocaine+strippers+fast cars+mansions way.
Presumably it would be different in that a baby or young child would not have any criteria by which to be judged. The man in the Amazon has made choices by which he could be judged.Pinochet said:
Isn't this basically the same as the age old question of whether babies who die before or during birth go to heaven? I have trouble drawing a distinction between that and OP's hypothetical, as well as between those and a child who dies young and never had anyone tell him the good news of the Gospel.
Jesus said:
Jesus says "I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me."
There is a major problem with the idea of everyone getting into heaven, and that's the problem of suffering. If the ultimate outcome of every existence is eternal bliss, then what's the point of an earthly lifetime peppered with misery and suffering? Why not just skip to the end of the story and bypass all that badness? It's hard to square unless you consider that suffering has a purpose, and that purpose must be ridiculously important to justify the amount of suffering that people undergo in their lives. As important as the eternal fate of the person involved, perhaps.Quote:
Even ignoring the complexities of environments and circumstances a "fair" solution is basically out of the question. And this would seem more ok if everyone gets to heaven in the end. Far less so if the road is narrow and few will find it.