<<Therefore, you cannot go to Heaven at your appointed time without believing in Jesus Christ as Messiah/Son of God/Lion oj Judah et al. This, of course, means that Heaven is forever locked out to other faiths, but God made these rules, ladies and gentlemen. Many times mankind attempts tp apply our 21st century perspectives on issues like this without realizing that it is, what is is. No watering down of the Gispel is called for and is not necessary. Believe and be saved, don't and hope asbestos is effective.>>
I think this is total bullshit. If there is a God His commandment was clearly to the Jews and nobody else to have no other gods before Him. This means you worship God and nobody else. No sons, no daughters, no nieces, no nephews. A Jew who worships Jesus or claims that Jesus was a god is in really deep shit, IMHO. He's a blaspheming son of a bitch and unless God really loves him for some other reason he is going to pay big-time for his apostasy. Every male Jew is circumcised as a sign of a continuing covenant between God and the Jewish people that began with Abraham and that covenant is meant to go on forever. To worship Jesus Christ as a God is to break the Covenant and then it is up to God what is going to happen to the guy but I would not want to be in his shoes (if there really is a God.)
As far as Christians or Gentiles worshiping Jesus, what difference does it really make? God never ordered them to worship Him and personally I don't think He gives a shit. Before Jesus came along, they would worship anything - - rocks, idols or even snakes, so in some sense, you could say that Jesus-worship is some kind of improvement on their previous spiritual lives, but it's really comical when they talk like the Professor and get on their so-called high horse to denounce the rest of the world. The rest of the world is pretty much in the same boat as they are, only they are the ones with the most blood on their hands so they probably have the most to answer for, if God cares what they did. My own guess is that God loves them like the animals of the forest because he lets them get away with murder, fornication, massacre, torture, etc. and they never pay the price any more than the wolf pays the price for killing the deer. The difference of course being that the wolf eats his kill. So it's kind of a mystery to me, but it really isn't any of my business. If there's a God, He knows what He is doing and he'll probably take care of these guys in His own sweet time. Or not. Maybe they're doing exactly what they're supposed to be doing. Nobody really knows. If there IS a God, life's just one big hidden mystery and if there isn't, it's just a puzzle waiting to be all put together by scientists who've already put together lots. But who the fuck really knows, eh?