Do Evangelicals Go To Heaven

[Dale]

I have had experiences with Evangelical's involved as activists in witnessing to Mormon's. I have tried to meet the local Anti-Mormon's whenever possible. And i distrust their militant position that they are saved. Some of these people give off bad vibe's, and some i felt were not beyond hope. I had no reason to trust that any of them had a true testimony they were saved.

I might have some significant differences with LDS, but i never have felt bad around LDS missionaries. I have felt bad around person's involved in missionary work aimed at Mormon's.

I also read Anti-Mormon literature for about 20+years. It kind of helped me to decide Evangelicalism for me was untrue.

I do not think religious membership effect's salvation from hell and outer-darkness. You can find saved people in anybody's church.

LDS are hard to understand by Evangelical people definition wise. LDS have an idea of saved, but damned to a status without exaltation. The idea of possibly being damned to a lower kingdom is also a part of LDS belief. Using a wider definition of damnation Evangelical's do not use saved does not mean the same thing for LDS as Evangelical's. Salvation from hell to one place heaven and the future new earth is the only idea of saved i see among Evangelical's.

Plus LDS have a more universalist idea of salvation. I have not yet ran into the idea among us Community of Christ/RLDS, or in our publication's. It may be present, but i have not yet ran into it. Based on a reading of Doctrine and Covenants Section 76 they see many saved verses fewer going to outer-darkness. I am not certain that reading is correct, and it does not fit if i recall the scripture right Matthew 7:13-14. Jesus meant fewer saved from failing the judgement, and more damed to the final outer-darkness.

[WANDERER]

Thanks Dale...the concept of different levels of Heaven is a hard one for me to understand as I haven't come across it before. So if you were LDS then the possibility of sharing the Celestial kingdom with an evangelical is not going to be surprising?

[Dale]

The idea is Evangelical's will become former Evangelical's. Just like Evangelical's think any saved Mormon will be an Evangelical.

I see no indication that heaven will become uninhabited when the New earth is inhabited by the saved. With two place's inhabited it's kind of hard to say every saved person will be in the same place. If we have two inhabited place's i do not see why we can't have more inhabited place's. So i see plenty of room in the future new Heaven and new earth for the three kingdom's. So i have no problem with four destination's that's including hell.

Community of Christ/RLDS also accept the idea of the four destination. Though hell is thought to be replaced by a more permanent hell outer-darkness.