
I cannot believe in a God that would allow only ONE group of "labels" into heaven and not those who have followed an alternate set of religious methods.
Now, I'm not picking on Christianity, because God only knows (pun) how much i want to have that kind of courage to declare faith. I'm only using it as an example since I believe I have grown accustomed to its form for so long. Many religions claim to be the ONLY way to heaven, the after world or whatever you want to call it. Eternity. Well, if they all claim to be a path to a greater goal of humanity, then there must be a universal "root" or "underlying" truth to all of these different religions/beliefs.
Things we can establish of MOST religions:
-Same Underlying goal : to get to eternity or something greater
-To be a good/better/perfect person
-Ultimate Peace (In the END *can include war in means to and End of peach*)
-A "way" or "commitment" to get there.
Ok, so let's jump ahead to God.
God is perfection; all knowing, all powerful and all being. We can establish he is perfect since we, being imperfect persons know that we are imperfect and can still recognize the idea of "perfection". By being imperfect, we can't completely "grasp" PERFECTION since we ourselves do not have that capacity.
God is the only source of true judgement, and he has vowed to judge us on our sins as well as the acceptance of Jesus Christ into our hearts and SOULS. So with that basis, let's look at the idea of Hell. You must be a CHRISTIAN to go to Heaven, (overlooking the "special blessing" of the Jewish people). AGAIN, you must be a Christian to go to heaven.
This is where Man kind Screws everything up...
The term "Christian" was not created by God, but by man. Therefore stating you must be a Christian by THE TITLE. Man kind has made religion ALL about the Titles.
In reality, Christianity, Buddhism, Sunni Islam, Muslim and Shiite Islam are all very similar religions not only at the base but throughout the morals, beliefs and understandings of God and the human soul. Many people will try to argue the this is impossible since in Iraq, the Muslims, Sunni's and Shiite's are waring religions bent on destruction and slaughtering each other. But I would then challenge them back to think about who is pushing these ideas into their mind, the religion itself? No. All three of these religions preach peace and acceptance of others. It never states in the Qua'ran to be violent towards the other branches of Islam or any other religion.
This is a result of man's yearn for war and domination that has brought three of the world's most beautiful religions to this bloody Apocalypse.
So if God is still seen as the ending result as well as heaven through means the basic "GOOD DEEDS" and common sense, then what really separates one religion from the next in definition?
If God only accepted Christians into heaven then, wouldn't that be discriminatory? therefore hypocrisizing the definition of God? therefore stating that God is imperfect and in result that there cannot be a God that is not perfect since that completely disproves the very meaning of "The Creator?"...
YES.
So therefore, in order for there to be a God, he is
non discriminatory (because he is perfection), then what allows ONLY the Christians into heaven? We have been made to believe that the TITLE of what we believe is our ticket to eternity, to heaven and to utmost happiness.
I believe that God doesn't judge on the pitiful label of the religion you "belong" to or any of the meaningless and highly bigotry issues that mankind in attempt to separate races and continents and countries has created as a scape goat to the idea that WE ARE ALL THE SAME. THE RELIGIONS ARE ALL THE SAME. MAN HAS ALTERED EACH OVER TIME FOR HIS OWN PERSONAL GAIN AND CONVENIENCE.
Religion is nothing more than a tool to separate one group from another...
There is one "religion", no not religion, UNDERSTANDING of God.
He does not judge on your sins your number of good deeds the scars on your back or the beauty your tongue can speak but on your soul. The soul of souls of soul! YOU'RE INNER SOUL! This and only this can expel you into Heaven. God would not judge on a label, birthright, societal background or race. But on the person you are inside and how he created you to be. The quality of a Good soul.
This is the most simple and basic ideal that we have grown up with and been face to face with all the time...
The blinding labels of conformity have shielded our very rational senses and empiricist experiences of our basic human knowledge. Just better the soul, which will better your heart, which will better your mind and your existence. And through this, a person will find God.
And that is my theory on Universal Religious Ideals of the Soul.