Sola Fide

[Bengalzona]

(04-26-2016, 05:02 PM)fredtoast Wrote: I was raised Baptists and I never heard anything like this.  I was taught that the only way to get to heaven was to accept Jesus as your savior.

I was the leader of the youth group at my church when I was in high school, and my first year of college was spent at a hard core Baptist college, Carson-Newman.  They were not even allowed to have dances at Carson Newman.  It might have changed over the last 30 years, but that was what it was like when I was there.

Since 2000, I've dallied in some pretty hardcore evangelical churches in Ohio and out here in Arizona. In Bible studies and sometimes in sermons, this topic always seemed to come up. Usually in the form of "Will there be (Jews, atheists, Muslims, etc.) in Heaven?" the response or teaching has always been the same: "Yes. I expect there will be some."

Never any explanation about how this would fit with having to accept Jesus as Savior, though.

Maybe it is a change in the churches. All I remember from the short time I went to a Baptist church as a child in the seventies was being shown a horror film about zombie-like people walking around with "666" tattooed on their foreheads.