A Way to Think About Free Will and God: Open Theism

Then how do you explain the parable of the sheep and goats where people were separated based on what they did not what they believed, even though many of the sheep had no idea who they had done those works for? And what about Lazarus who was welcomed into heaven because he suffered during life whereas the rich man was tormented because he had it easy during life. I tend to believe this is true. Jesus said "I am the way...", "No one comes to the Father but through me.", "That he is the gate and the true sheep enter through the gate...", etc. But I also believe that God is just and fair and it seems to me to be unjust that billions and billions of people are condemned simply because of where or when they were born. So I don't know how it works, but I feel there must be a mechanism for those people to acknowledge or accept Jesus when they stand before him. But again, I don't know... I'm not the judge. To me, heaven and hell are mostly about rectifying injustice, putting things right that have been corrupted and destroying those things cause suffering.I just have hard time believing heaven is such an extremely exclusive place. I mean, of all the confessing Christians that post regularly here on EvC, you are the only one going to heaven because we all believe something a little off of what you say makes a true Christian (none of which involves the name of Jesus). For example, I don't qualify because I think the earth is old and I disagree with a TRUE Christian about several issues; GDR doesn't qualify because he thinks helping refugees is a charitable thing to do thus putting his neighbor at risk; Phat doesn't qualify because he questions his faith; etc.So obviously there are way more criteria to getting into heaven than just the name of Jesus.HBD