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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