When I die, if i've been good, i'm supposedly going to heaven but when I think about it, my 'heaven' would not include any zealots who have just blown up 10 people at the market, even if he does have seventy seven naked virgins around him. So, I will deduce, if that was the case, and we all go to heaven for being good, there must be more than one heaven. How many heavens do you have in your religion and what do you expect will be there?
The criteria for going into heaven is: Believing in Allah as the only creator of this universe and worship him alone. Doing righteous deeds includes all five pillars of Islam, rights for others and others rights over you. Inviting others to the right path. Observe patience in difficult times and invite others to patience. Just being good to others but not worshipping Allah alone disqualifies you from this category. Heaven has many levels, even the lowest level of heaven is many times better than the kingdom of whole world given to a single person. Its not easy to earn as it is the ultimate success.
Just replace God with Allah and Bible with Koran, be sure to watch the entire video: [video=youtube;urlTBBKTO68]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urlTBBKTO68[/video]
Christianity is a term made by christians themselves, Jesus never said he is son of god or god himself or worship me. Not even a single word about christian or christianity in Bible. The words of Bible have also been altered with time.
Christians are a splinter/breakaway group of Jews.. While the Jews still await the saviour/messiah. Christians are ex Jews that believe that Jesus was the saviour/messiah. Catholics and Protestants are also Christians, but are a European breakaway group, started as freed slaves returning to the then dominant world power “Rome†could not see any benefit in worshiping the then roman gods. While Rome kept most Catholics fractions unified under a head priest (Pope).. Protestants split up into many fractions, (King Henry, Killing and Divorcing young Wives did not help).. These groups are Anglican, Presbyterian, Methodist, and Quaker to name but a few… As English settlers moved to the new world ( America ) they took their believes (Mostly Protestant) with them. Soon they where follower by other European settlers ( Irish, Italian, Scandinavian, French, and Dutch) and all brought with them, their own flavour of Christianity. But who can say what is correct or if there is really a heaven… BTW.. I am Irish we mostly believe in hard work and looking after your family…
The Afterlife or Outerworld is re-entered by mankind only through the Garden of Eden. There is no certainty in reaching Heaven.
One real kigndom and it will be in heaven, meaning for eternity where is all is perfect for being there and the presence of Jesus.
I asked Google how many heavens there are and it tells me there's 3. I have heard of somebody being in 7th heaven in a 'happy' sense. carm.org Seem this site unwittingly understands that 'men' wrote the bible because if God was the author he would know how many heavens he made and not make a guess based on 'current theories' of the time.
Well it wouldn't be heaven if I had to learn a new language! My heaven would be English because i'm best at that.
Thanks Vebtools for that link though that version of heaven sounds impossible to me. Islam's God seems cleverer than I thought. It's no wonder the zealouts are blowin' themselves up to get there!
for me English is easier than Arabic but I heard from some Mullahs and religious people that in heaven must speak Arabic as all the Muslims must pray in Arabic and other languages not permitted.
John 14:6 (King James Version) Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me. Man, I bet the sofa chairs are uncomfortable! When they say that gold is a "soft metal", that's not quite what they mean.