(July 26, 2013 at 8:59 am)Drich Wrote: 'christians' or people who call themselves that won't be the only one in heaven.Extra Ecclesiam Nulla Salus? No salvation outside the church? Why did all those missionaries sail across the globe if not out of the firm belief that these people would actually burn in hell for not praying to Jesus Christ? Now you're giving a very different view, a watered-down modernized one, but isn't it funny how so many people referring to the same doctrine, the same text and the same savoir come up with so many different and conflicting interpretations? Some of which change fundamentally as times change? To me that thoroughly underlines that any religion is merely a human construct established as a remedy to very human issues.
Christ did not say no one comes to the Father, but by Christianity. Christ is the finial judge and he will decide who is 'Christian' and who is not. The titles we give ourselves are meaningless.
"Men see clearly enough the barbarity of all ages — except their own!" — Ernest Crosby.