'Drich, which of the millions of different christian denominations goes to Heaven?'

[Drich]

Well, I'd been wondering because SE Asian imports (refugee christianity) are of a remarkably different flavor. Really took root in C. Fl, couple decades back.

oh, yeah??? Where? I've lived here 4 decades and never heard of this mass migration.

Something that a person might notice, a christian person, for example, about those congregations is that their view of god and christ has been molded by a shared cultural experience trending a whole hell of alot closer to "God the Benevolent Despot" rather then the more european...and therefore to us more traditional, "Prince of Peace" model.

ever been to a white or black baptist or Lutheran church service?

My mother's congergation leans more toward the prosperity doctrine types. (Name and claim money and healings) that sort of thing.

I currently goto a hell fire and brimstone church who's membership is primarly white. Why? Because my wife grew up in that church, and her grandfather literally help build it.

They think I am way too liberal, and my mother's people think I am too conservitive. In truth my beliefs come straight from the bible, with no religious filter. That means on some issues I am seemingly way too liberal while others I am too conservative for those who change their bibles to fit their particular likings.

It's not a rule, just a trend. That particular group of christians actually -was- hellishly persecuted, and while it may seem counterintuitive, a persons experience with earthly rulers might color the way they view celestial ones - even if they're being persecuted by the former while bowing down to the latter. That sort of stuff makes it's way to their kids, so on and so forth.

my mother's family did indeed live through hell at the hands of the Japanese, and again with the threat of invasion from the north. Maybe that is why when they came here and converted to Christianity they sought a church that spoke of a prosperity doctrines and how to pray and appeal to God for the good life rather the Hell Fire and brimstone the local white people seem to enjoy.

I doubt I need to mention much more to explain my interest......just wondering if it's another example of the effect of culture on faith, the way that different cultures or people with different cultural underpinnings view god, or what they see as an "acceptable" way to view god.

Actually I was not welcome at my mother's churchas my siblings and I were the only ones who were not fluent in Korean. (All the lessons and socializing were strictly in korean.) my mom would have to go outside to speak with me in English so as not to make the others "uncomfortable."[/quote]