Delta4Embassy
Gold Member
Its not what you believe , its how you live your life. Even the Pope said "atheist can go to heaven" . I live a Christian life, I think a person needs to live their life for this life and what ever will be will be. Not all Christians are the same, for instance, I do not believe Jesus was God, but a man who worshipped God in a different way than the Pharisees.
There were different Jews in those days as well.
Pharisees were what we now call 'legalistic.' Jesus by opposition, a spiritualist. He taught Judaism in the spirit of it, not letter of the law, and as such made it more attractive and accessible than the legalistic approach.
According to Judaism you don't have to be Jewish or anything else to receive a place in the world to come ('heaven.') Follow 7 simple laws and you're in like Flynn. And these are common-sense things like don't murder, steal, commit adultery, be a bastard (might be remembering that one wrong.) So by extension you could be atheist who coincidentally is doing those things anyway.