Last night, I was having a very theological conversation with someone. They asked me what I believed about people that were not Christians and what there fate was. I told him that if a person had completely devoted themselves to another religion, been completely faithful, and that was all they knew to be that religion, then they could be recieved into the kingdom of heaven. I alluded to C. S. Lewis’ CHRONICLES OF NARNIA: THE LAST BATTLE when Aslan makes the two doors, one into Aslan’s Country and the other to some where dark and barron. Aslan let’s a Calormene into Aslan’s Country saying something along the lines of "By being completely faithful to Tash you have been faithful to me because that was all you knew "(I apologize if that is way off, but I do not have my books up here at school so I couldn’t look right away). The person I was talking to said, “Well, what about ‘I am the Way, the Truth, and the Light. No one gets to Heaven but through me.’ Should everyone just not worry because they are going to be saved anyway, because they didn’t know better?” So, my question, is there any validity to my argument? I believe that C. S. Lewis was not the type to flippantly speculate. Is there any scriptural basis for the parralell in the book? I really would appreciate some help.
Maybe a picky matter of semantics, but the way it’s most often quoted is “'I am the Way, the Truth, and the Light. No one comes to THE FATHER except by me.”
AFAIK, Jesus made little or no of mention heaven per se. It seems that any speculation as to what, if anything, happens to our souls, spirit, being, whatever, is purely a matter of speculation or faith.
This is a duplicate of Hell or Heaven for non-believers?.
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