Baptism

[claymore]

If you have never been baptized can you still go to heaven when your time is up, or is heaven reserved only for those "lucky " enough to be born christian?

[sandyRoe]

God is good. If you'd not been baptised but had led a good life I think there'd be room for you in Heaven.

[chakka35]

Since heaven is purely an invented, fictional place, you can invent your own rules as to who 'goes there' and who doesn't.

[jackthehat]

oooo, not true, sandy........
There is no way to the father except through the son.

It's not good enough to have accepted Jesus into your heart, you have to be *seen* to have accepted Jesus into your heart............otherwise any old person could claim to have a special relationship with the Lord, in order to get it.

Baptism is the usual route.......

[boxtops]

If you are good and belong to any one of a number of religions, you go to heaven - it's not exclusively for Christians IMO, different faiths have different versions.

[society]

"If you have never been baptized can you still go to heaven when your time is up, or is heaven reserved only for those "lucky " enough to be born christian?"

If that's the case then I'll be going to hell. Make room you lot on here :-)

[jake-the-peg]

Baptism is just Christianity's form of waterboarding

In both cases people come out screaming for God

[dotty.]

I was baptised at 6 weeks old and Confirmed at 14 years old, married in the eyes of God in 1978 and all three of my children were baptised into the Christian faith, still, it's no guarantee is it? One slip up and I;m toast.

[ummmm]

Are you Catholic Dot?

[wildwood]

Qualifications must have changed since I went to school. I was under the impression that even murderers enter it as long as they 'find the Lord' before they kick the bucket.

[naomi24]

What's heaven? If it's something someone told you about, you need to ask him who told him about it.

I detest the Baptism service. Spouting such superstitious claptrap especially over the head of a baby is deplorable.

[Zeuhl]

Amen to that!
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[beso]

Only really boring wowsers get into heaven. No way I would want to go there.

(If you Pomes don't know what a wowser it Google it. No I don't mean wowzer.)

[sandyRoe]

If only there were more wowsers about. The world would be a much better place.

[beso]

I am sure my heart would suffer from a terrible blockage if I accepted a full grown man into it.

Perhaps that is proof that Jesus is merely a figment of the imagination. Jesus can be in a believer's heart yet not affect its functioning at all.

[naomi24]

I googled it - and going by Sandy's reply, one of us has looked at the wrong definition ............ or maybe not! :o)

[welshlibranr]

baptism is a joke, how can you take a baby, and promise that it will abide by the Christian faith, it's only around 3 months old, how can you promise that? and then the godparents have to promise that they will make sure the child is brought up as a Christian too!.........it's just ludicrous!..Never happens!.............Christainings are just another excuse for a celebration!.....The birth of a child should be celebrated!........but if you are not a believer in Christianity, then this is not the way to do it!................

[craft1948]

I was both christened and confirmed. I had my daughter christened as if she chose to be a practising christian it could have been embarrassing for her in later life. She chose not to be confirmed, which I am okay with.
However seeing how some practising christians behave I don't think baptism will be of much help to them when trying to enter the kingdom of heaven.

[woofgang]

I quite fancy Valhalla but only for weekends and somewhere quieter during the week