Do you think people of other faiths will be in heaven

[frienduff thaylorde]

1 hour ago, johnthebaptist said:

I believe the gate of heaven is open to anyone who loves the Lord with all their heart, mind, and soul, and loves their neighbor as themselves.

So this begs the question .   IS it possible to LOVE GOD and yet not LOVE CHRIST .   NO it is NOT . 

You are right , heaven is open for all who love GOD .   And those who LOVE the FATHER LOVE THE SON and those who LOVE THE SON , LOVE THE FATHER .     good works and great intentions will save none .

Yep ,    I just wanted to expound in that a bit .   You be encouraged John . 

Edited January 28, 2020 by frienduff thaylorde

[other one]

19 minutes ago, frienduff thaylorde said:

God is very merciful .  He already DID what was needed for man to be saved .    if one denies HIM ,  well that is on them .     God is love ,  and HE already made the way , IN CHRIST .

Deny that and there is no mercy .        

and those who have never heard of him???

[Seasoned by Grace]

I wouldn't be worrying about others as much as I would be concerned about my own faith if I was you. I spent nearly 40 years believing I might be right but with always a question in the back of my mind. Not that you shouldn't be concerned about others, but you need to be right first for you and then for them

The last 5 years of study turned my faith upside down as the Holy Spirit led to truths that changed my whole life.

My advise is never get to a place where you can be comfortable with your faith, always search and growing and maturing. Everyone's faith should grow and change as you continually search out God's word, or your not maturing as God has commanded us to.

Some of God's warning to all of us including me.

Proverbs 14: 12 "There is a way that seems right to a man, but it's end is the way of death".

2nd Timothy 3:5 "Holding to a form of Godliness, although they have denied it's power".

2nd Timothy 3:7 "Always learning, but never coming to the knowledge of the truth."

2nd Thessalonians 2:10 "They did not receive the love of the truth so as to be saved".

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God is saying it's easy to be deceived.

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How can so many people believe they are saved and believe such different doctrines.

God is a very "Narrow Minded God, and at the end times if you haven't put all the effort you can muster into being sure your right, you could be in some serious trouble, if your wrong and you had plenty of time to search out the truth but were lazy and wrong.

What do you think God will have to say to you.

We're talking about life and death here friends and all of us better get it right.

My name is Oligos

 

 

[grahampaul]

But I say, have they not heard? Yes indeed: “Their sound has gone out to all the earth, And their words to the ends of the world.”kjv. romans 10 v18.any thoughts on the world has heard his Word?.
 

[Blood Bought 1953]

4 hours ago, johnthebaptist said:

I believe the gate of heaven is open to anyone who loves the Lord with all their heart, mind, and soul, and loves their neighbor as themselves.

  Very True..........but nobody ever does these things.....not even CLOSE!

[Willa]

Since a person would have to be a believer in Christ to come to the Father, only those who believe Jesus died for their sins and arose from the dead are able to be in heaven with the Father.  That makes them Christians.  No one ever goes to heaven because they are good.  Only Christ did that.

Jhn 14:6

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.

[johnthebaptist]

36 minutes ago, Blood Bought 1953 said:

  Very True..........but nobody ever does these things.....not even CLOSE!

Jesus commanded us to repent and be perfect, as our Father in heaven is perfect, so I suspect you are wrong.

[Yeshua153]

12 hours ago, Amigo42 said:

Do you all think people who were good people in life and lived up the knowledge of God they had will be heaven even if they didn't explicitly accept Jesus?  For example, Muslims, Hindus, etc.  Of course, I believe that all people must have Jesus, but others believe that God will give some sort of second chance.

No, God makes the choice, & they are few.

[Blood Bought 1953]

God knows I am the farthest thing in the world from being “ perfect”......I am the True “Chief Of Sinners”...Yet.........because I “ Believe in the One He sent”, He has imputed the Righteousness Of His Son to my Heavenly Account......What a deal! What a Savior! 

[Sower]

2 hours ago, grahampaul said:

But I say, have they not heard? Yes indeed: “Their sound has gone out to all the earth, And their words to the ends of the world.”kjv. romans 10 v18.any thoughts on the world has heard his Word?.
 

There is none who seek God! There is none who does right.
 God speaks by;
1. The creation that proclaims His existence.
2. The conscience that bears right from wrong.
3. Or the gospel was proclaimed and heard.
One cannot reject Jesus whom he never heard of. But he is accountable for that which he receives.
 Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved
So we do know it is Jesus who saves. We don't know the who, or why. We're not God's advisors.

To whom much is given, much is required.

Remember the 'parable of the talents?' We are to use use our God-given gifts in the service of God, not bury them,
and to take risks to share the gospel, to add to the Lord of Lord's kingdom.
So much has been given us, others and those here on this Christian forum, reading, hearing and discussing the word,
compared to those who never heard the name of Jesus,  never heard the gospel of Jesus Christ,
gazing at the heavens, listening to their conscience. And because we discuss scripture we can decide their fate???
You quoted Romans 19;, 18 grahampaul, however I will add the previous verse also;

So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God. (from a man, or book? or the heavens and the spirit given conscience?)
But I say, Have they not heard?  Yes verily, their sound went into all the earth, and their words unto the ends of the world. Romans 10, 17-18

For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith.  Romans 12, 3

Again,       To whom much is given, much is required.

You, therefore, have no excuse, you who pass judgment on someone else, for at whatever point you judge another,
you are condemning yourself, because you who pass judgment do the same things.

  For it is not those who hear the law who are righteous in God’s sight, but it is those who obey the law who will be declared righteous. ¹⁴ (Indeed, when Gentiles, who do not have the law, do by nature things required by the law, they are a law for themselves, even though they do not have the law. ¹⁵ They show that the requirements of the law are written on their hearts, their consciences also bearing witness, and their thoughts sometimes accusing them and at other times even defending them.) ¹⁶ This will take place on the day when God judges people’s secrets through Jesus Christ, as my gospel declares!