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Today at work, a business contact and I were discussing who goes to Heaven. He brought up the subject of it not being fair because we cannot help what religion we are born into. He says that I was born into the Christian family I was born into, he, into a Catholic family, some of our customers into muslim families. If only one religion of people will go to Heaven, how is that fair. And he also added that he thinks we all pray to the same God so we all have a good shot at it (as he put it). My answer to him was this; First of all I don't believe that I pray to the same God as most Muslims. That is based on the Bible and the Koran. The Koran states that Jesus was not the son of God and was not raised from the dead. But does acknowledge him as a prophet. The Bible states that Jesus is God. And having said that to answer the other question, Jesus said "If you do not believe I am who I say I am, you will die in your sins". Translated, that means if you do not believe that Jesus is God in the flesh, you're screwed for eternity. So I cannot speak for all muslims or any other religion, BUT I do believe that anyone who does not believe that Jesus was God in the flesh is missing a vital part of any religion and therefore as Jesus said, "Will die in their sins". And as far as what he said about not being fair that some were born into devout muslim households and it not being fair if in fact muslims has a warped understanding. Back to the Bible, I told him, it states that everyone on earth will have heard the gospel,,,, and then the end will come. In other words, Everyone on earth will have an oppurtunity to repent and turn to GOd, and then the end will come.