Multiculturalism---Many Roads Lead To Heaven

By de Andrea

Many Christians make it up as they go
Despite the fact that the Bible and the entire Christian Religion teaches the only way to heaven is Jesus Christ, nearly as many Christians in a survey said you could achieve eternal life by just being a good person, as said that you had to believe in Jesus.

Many roads to God
In June of this year, the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life published a controversial survey in which 71 percent of Americans said that they believed religions other than Christianity could lead to eternal life.

This threw evangelicals into a tizzy. After all, the Bible makes it clear. “Jesus said,: I am the way, the truth and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.” John 14,Vs 6. But the results of the survey indicated that American Christians just weren’t buying that.

The evangelicals complained that people must not have understood the question. Could the respondents actually believe what they were saying?

So in August, the Pew Research Center asked the question again in yet another survey. (They released the results last week.) This time sixty seven 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.

And they didn’t stop there. Nearly half also thought that atheists could go to heaven — dragged there kicking and screaming, I suspect — and most thought that people with no religious faith at all could go as well.

What on earth does this mean?
One very plausible explanation is that Americans just want good things to come to what they think are good people, regardless of their faith or lack of one. As Alan Segal, a professor of religion at Barnard College said: “We are a multicultural society, and because of this, people expect this American life to continue the same way in heaven.”

The great deception
He explained that in our society, we meet so many “good” people of different faiths that it’s hard for us to imagine God letting them go to hell. In fact, in this most recent survey, Pew asked people what they thought determined whether a person would achieve eternal life. Nearly half of all Christians said you could achieve eternal life by just being a good person.

Also, many Christians apparently view their Biblical text as flexible. According to Pew’s August survey, only 39 percent of Christians believe that the Bible is the literal word of God, and 18 percent think that it’s just a book written by well intention good men and not the word of God at all. In fact, 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 Gods word.

This, as I see it, is at least another partial result of the new multiculturalistic philosophy of the west. What was once a Judeao Christian culture which assimilated many other cultures; now seems to pride itself in the separation and acceptance of other cultures (non-assimilation) actually an infiltration, influencing the change of the host culture.

Now, there remains the remote possibility that some of those polled may not have understood the questions---again. As John Green, a senior fellow at the Pew Forum, said, “The capacity of ignorance to influence survey outcomes should never be underestimated.”

THE BOTTOM LINE: Misunderstanding, Ignorance, Tolerance, whatever the excuse, I don’t think that Christians are ignorant about this most basic tenet of their faith. I think that they are choosing to ignore it. What I think is that the Christian church at large is deceived.

Lulled to sleep by the deception of Lucifer / Satan / Allah--- Allah was telling the truth when he told Muhammad in AD 610 that the Christian Church was corrupt, it was then, and it is now.

“For many deceivers have gone out into the world, men who will not acknowledge the coming of Jesus Christ in the flesh; such a one is the deceiver and the antichrist” 2 John Vs. 7.

Think about it…

de Andréa