Jesus said, "I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life. No one comes to the Father but by Me." Most people consider this literally: people from other faiths are wrong (and they will go to hell). Now, would it be in contradiction with Jesus' teachings to consider that Jesus is God descended in the flesh and that God is Love hence Jesus is Love made human? Jesus words could then be understood as: “Love is the Way, the Truth, and the Life. No one comes to God but by loving”.
This doesn't seem that irrelevant to me since Jesus' main commandments are to love God and to love our neighbor (Matthew 22:36-40 and Mark 12:30-31). So how one calls God and the way one chooses to love Them is maybe not that important.
I like that point of view because I just don't feel that a very loving Muslim or Hindu behaving like a saint will go to hell just because they don't believe in Jesus in his human form or because they don't conceive God the way we do.
As a matter of fact, this is how I understand John 10:16. Love would be the shepherd and people loving God in different ways would be the sheep from another sheep pen.
Where do you stand? Do you believe a very loving Muslim or Hindu behaving like a saint should go to hell?
This doesn't seem that irrelevant to me since Jesus' main commandments are to love God and to love our neighbor (Matthew 22:36-40 and Mark 12:30-31). So how one calls God and the way one chooses to love Them is maybe not that important.
I like that point of view because I just don't feel that a very loving Muslim or Hindu behaving like a saint will go to hell just because they don't believe in Jesus in his human form or because they don't conceive God the way we do.
As a matter of fact, this is how I understand John 10:16. Love would be the shepherd and people loving God in different ways would be the sheep from another sheep pen.
Where do you stand? Do you believe a very loving Muslim or Hindu behaving like a saint should go to hell?