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‘Everyone deserves to be saved and go to Heaven’ Discuss.
Taken from Matthew 25, when discussing the afterlife Jesus states ‘Then they will go away to eternal punishment, but the righteous to eternal life’. This clearly eludes to a Divine judgement about which afterlife is suitable to each individual. But how is this decided? Is it possible to change your afterlife or is it unescapable? This essay will explore why not everyone deserves to be saved and go to Heaven and what other options there are.
Hi Amy, just had a thought… does Calvin philosophy of the ‘elect’ and not knowing that you are the ‘elect’ tie in with Kant? If Calvin believes that it’s best to be a good christian, work hard etc, and then in the end you will know if you’re judged; is this like Kant’s ‘treat as means not ends’ in a way? As Kant would also think [if he was arguing for this] that we have to follow our duty [as Christians] and keep in line with our duty so as to not treat people as means (and the whole universalisability thing of if everyone did this…). I’m not sure if I can link this, but I just thought it might be a… thought.