04-26-2016, 11:11 PM
(04-26-2016, 05:22 PM)Bengalzona Wrote: 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.
Many Baptist Churches are starting to turn Calvin and believing that God picks and chooses who's going to Heaven and who's going to Hell. Maybe that's what you heard, I don't know.
My Baptist Church teaches that it is through Jesus Christ as the only way to Heaven. As long as you believe that Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior, you're going to Heaven. Yes, that means Catholics, Methodists, Protestant and so on and so forth.
I'm thinking you may have been in a Baptist Church that teaches Calvinism.
If you want to learn more on Calvinist views of Election, read A.W. Pinks "The Doctrine Of Election" found here http://www.pbministries.org/books/pink/Election/index.htm
