I've always wondered this. If the way to heaven is through acceptance of Jesus into your heart, the alternative being damnation, what happens to all non-Christian peoples of the earth?
I was told as a child that those people chose to live in ignorance of God and therefore deserved Hell.
That's just silly, isn't it? It's especially silly when you consider that many other religions have the exact same view of themselves, with all Christians being the ones doomed to damnation.
Obviously, the best possible scenario is that only one religion is truly right and the rest either innacurate or plain wrong. And the odds of even that are low. Consider the endless permutations of most religion's holy texts over time.
So why do people choose one religion over another and defend them to the death, when obviously most of them (if not all of them) are wrong?
When a sweet 11 year old Buddhist dies, does he go to Christian hell for not believing in Christ?
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