Ok, I believe in God, and that Christ was the son of God.
But what if he wasn’t? How will God judge those of us who have been worshipping Jesus as Lord & his son all these Centuries?
Then that facet of your belief system is in error. The results of that error are, assuming the veracity of the other components of it, out of your hands. Among other things, there would be no new covenant, so you can suppose the old covenant was never fulfilled and modified.
I’m sure you’ll be fine. He has a track record of being pretty lenient with worshippers of false idols and such.
::crickets::
That sort of depends on who God is, and how strict He (or She) is about people being completely accurate in their beliefs. Are you talking about if the OT is true, but Jesus was not the Messiah, or if God is completely different from the God of the Bible?
Personally, I’m of the believe that Jesus is the Son of God, and that God isn’t too harsh with people who earnestly worship Him in other forms (aka nonchristians). I don’t know about atheists and nonreligious people, but I figure God judges each person individually, and judges by a person’s heart more than a person’s beliefs or deeds. So, theoretically, an atheist who earnestly persued the truth and morality, loved other people, and lived in a way God would have wanted could well get into heaven.
My point is that my own views on God don’t coincide with God harshly judging those who are inaccurate in their religious beliefs (indeed, I rather doubt anyone, myself included, is 100% correct), so if Jesus was not in fact the Son of God, I don’t think God would have any problem with faithful Christians. However, even if Jesus is the Son of God He may well have a problem with those who supposedly worshipped Him but used His name as an excuse for bloodshed and hatred.
pkbites asked:
That rather depends on A) if there is a God at all and B) what kind of god that is.
For example, some Christians think their god will throw all nonbelievers (or incorrect believers) into Hellfire for eternity. Some think that there is no way their god would do such horrible things.
Now, take that and apply it to your question. If there is a god and he is, say, the god of the extremist Muslims, then you’re in trouble. If he’s a kinder, gentler god, then you’re probably okay.
Of course, my opinion is that the whole discussion is moot.
Kinda sounds like the old Problem of Avoiding the Wrong Hell.
Quetzalcoatl will deal most harshly with those who have squandered their time foolishly worshipping Jesus instead of chopping the living hearts out of their enemies with obsidian knives on top of jungle pyramids as he intended.