Many Religions Can Get You To Heaven
December
29
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Most Christians Say Non-Christian Faiths Can Lead to Salvation
In a June survey, the Pew Forum on Religion & the Public Life, asked Americans if people from other religions could go to heaven. 70% said yes. Only 30% believe that what they believe is an important entry card.
As you can imagine, evangelicals complained that people must not have understood the question. The respondents couldn’t actually believe what they were saying, could they?
So in August, Pew asked the question again. (They released the results last week.) Sixty-five percent of respondents said — again — that other religions could lead to eternal life. But this time, to clear up any confusion, Pew asked them to specify which religions. The respondents essentially said all of them.
Was living according to strict biblical rules important? Definitely not. On the question in the Pew survey about what it would take to achieve eternal life, only 1 percent of Christians said living life in accordance with the Bible.
You can read the results at the Pew website.
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This Pew study is encouraging. However, I wonder what those people who believe most religions can lead to heaven, believe heaven is? Do they believe it’s a place they go to if they’ve been good on earth with a converse place called hell? Or, do some believe as I do, that heaven is actually a state of mind we achieve while here on the planet? Conscious living, making choices that serve mankind and the planet, and being authentic with ourselves and others is what I believe leads to the state of joy that is talked about as heaven. When Jesus Christ said, The kingdom of heaven is within you, I believe this is what he meant. As far as eternal life, I do believe the soul lives on in another state of existence once the body has died, and it’s nothing to fear. In fact, the more heaven we have achieved while here, will result in an easier transition to the next leg of our journey.
Namaste~~