Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!sdd.hp.com!mips!dimacs.rutgers.edu!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: gilham@csl.sri.com (Fred Gilham) Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: Re: Non-Christians in Heaven (was: Original sin of infants) Message-ID: Date: 10 May 91 06:59:58 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Organization: Computer Science Lab, SRI International, Menlo Park, CA. Lines: 12 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu smittie writes: ---------------------------------------- The problem I have is that if even one person can get to heaven without Christ then Christ's whole trip to Earth was a waste. I don't very much that God is real into wasteful practices such as that. ---------------------------------------- Theology aside for the moment, Jesus seems to have taught that if only one person needed it, his trip to Earth would have been worth it, as in the parables of the lost sheep and lost coin. -- -Fred Gilham gilham@csl.sri.com