人们普遍存在对他人的负面判断的倾向。在高中，这种趋势在群体中表现出来。一些受欢迎的孩子进入了一个小组，逐渐开始认为他们比别人更好，因为他们更喜欢。不“入内”的孩子可能会成为怜悯，鄙视甚至残酷笑话的对象。该集团以一种或另一种方式对其他人进行了微妙的判断，认为它们是人类的下层阶级。

在各种宗教中也表现出同样轻视他人的倾向。一些宗教团体变得如此以自我为中心，以至于他们相信任何一种不同的信仰都无法上天堂。极端化的话，这种态度比势利的少年集团残酷得多。

圣经的教导与此形成鲜明对比。首先，上帝的话语告诉我们，我们不应该将人们称为“得救”或“罪人”。耶稣说，

“不要判断，不要谴责您。为什么您要看哥哥眼中的斑点，却不考虑您自己眼中的木板？” （马太福音7:1, 3）

门徒詹姆士这样说：“有一个律政者，谁能拯救和毁灭。你是谁来审判另一个？” （雅各书4:1）

当主在世上的时候，教会的领袖中普遍存在一种判断态度。许多人以为，当弥赛亚降临时，他会拯救犹太人，而不是其他人。耶稣来的时候，他们谴责他与非犹太人和犹太人的交往。

耶稣不鼓励这种态度。祂曾经与一些“信任自己”的人说话，他们得救了，其他人则没有。他请他们考虑两个祈祷：“上帝，我感谢你，我不像其他人。”和“上帝，怜悯我，一个罪人！”耶稣称赞那个自以为是罪人的人。 （路加福音18:9-14）

最好将自己视为罪人，而不是认为自己已得救。

您可能还记得好撒玛利亚人的寓言，他停下来在路边帮助受伤的人。即使这个撒玛利亚人是“错误的”信仰（从犹太人的角度来看），耶稣说撒玛利亚人也应该被爱为邻居，因为他是个好人。实际上，他说，想要永生的人应该像这个撒玛利亚人（路加福音10:29-37），即使撒玛利亚人既不是基督徒也不是犹太人。耶稣看到了-并且看到了-一个人的内心，而不仅仅是教会所属的。

圣经清楚地表明，决定一个人是否去天堂的是人的生活方式，而不仅仅是他的信仰。耶稣说：“不是每个对我说'主啊，主'的人都要进入天国，但要奉行我父在天上的旨意。 （马太福音7:21）

再一次，“他将根据自己的工作奖励每一个人。” （马太福音16:27）

他说：“行善的人会复活，而行恶的人会死刑。” （约翰福音5:29）

由于一个人的生命不仅取决于他的信仰，还决定着他的永恒，耶稣预言许多基督徒将得不到拯救，因为他们过着邪恶的生活。

“那天有许多人对我说：'主啊，主啊，我们岂不是以你的名预言，以你的名驱赶魔鬼，以你的名行了许多奇事？”然后我向他们宣告：“我从不认识你：离开我，你们这是行不通的！””（马太福音27:22-23, 路加福音13:25-27）

非基督徒可以得救的一个原因是，他可以爱他的邻居。真正爱他的邻居的人也爱基督，尽管他可能没有意识到。耶稣说：“因为你照管了我弟兄中最少的一个，你就对我做了。” （马太福音25:40）

对耶稣的信仰，对邻居没有爱是没有意义的。

“尽管我有全部信念，所以我可以摘山，但没有爱，我什么都不是。” （哥林多前书13:2）

另一方面，真正的爱是一个人在心中认识主的标志，无论他信奉何种宗教。

“爱相信一切。” （哥林多前书13:7）

“行善的人是上帝的，但行恶的人却没有看见上帝。” （约翰三书1:11）

“让我们彼此相爱，因为爱是上帝的爱，每个相爱的人都是上帝所生，并且认识上帝。上帝就是爱，任何恪守爱心的人都恪守上帝，上帝也奉行上帝。” （约翰一书4:7-11）

摘要：

一些基督教教会教导：只有基督徒才能得救。

圣经实际上说的是什么（以及新基督教教会的教义）：拯救了来自所有宗教的好人。

有关新基督教教会教义的一些参考资料： 天堂与地狱318-328, 天命326

经非常有用的网站的作者John Odhner的许可使用：http://whatthebiblesays.info/Introduction.html

100. And hast tried them that say that they are apostles and they are not, and hast found them liars, signifies also falsities, so far as they are able to search them out. This is evident from the signification of "to try," as being to inquire into and search out; and from the signification of "apostles," as being those who teach the truths of the church, and in a sense abstracted from persons, the truths themselves that are taught (of which in what follows); also from the signification of "and are not, and are found liars," as being not truths but falsities; for a "lie" and a "liar" signify falsity (Arcana Coelestia 8908, 9248). From this and what precedes it is evident that "I know that thou canst not bear the evil, and hast tried them that say they are apostles and they are not, and hast found them liars," signifies that they reject evils, and falsities also, so far as they are able to search them out. For in the things written to this church those who are in the knowledges of truth and good, thus in the knowledges of such things as are of heaven and of the church, are treated of (See above, n. 93); here, therefore, it is first said of them that they put away evils, and falsities also, so far as they are able to search them out; for those who are in the knowledges of the holy things of the church need first to know in general what good and truth are, also what evil and falsity are, for upon this knowledge all other knowledges are founded. (For this reason also The Doctrine of the New Jerusalem first of all treats of Good and Truth, n 11-27, and from these it can also be seen what evil and falsity are.)

[2] By "apostles" those who teach the truths of the church are signified, because the apostles [those sent] were so called from their having been sent to teach and to preach the Gospel concerning the Lord and the drawing nigh of the kingdom of God through Him; thus to teach the truths of the church, by which the Lord is known and the kingdom of God is brought nigh. The kingdom of God on the earth is the church. From this it is evident what is meant by "apostles" in the spiritual sense of the Word, namely, not the twelve apostles who were sent by the Lord to teach concerning Him and His kingdom, but all who are in the truths of the church, and in a sense abstracted from persons, the truths themselves. For in the Word it is customary to speak of persons; but those who are in its spiritual sense, as angels are, do not think of persons at all, but their thought is abstracted from persons, and has respect therefore solely to things. The reason is, that it is material to think of persons, but spiritual to think apart from the idea of persons; for instance, where the "disciples" are mentioned in the Word, or "prophets," "priests," "kings," "Jews," "Israel," "the inhabitants of Zion," and of "Jerusalem," and so on. (Moreover, the very names of persons and places are changed with angels into things, see Arcana Coelestia 768, 1224, 1264, 1876, 1888, 4310, 4442, 5095, 5225, 6516, 10216, 10282, 10329, 10432; and that the thought of angels is abstracted from persons, n. 8343, 8985, 9007)

[3] That the disciples of the Lord were called apostles from their having been sent to teach concerning Him and His kingdom is clear in Luke:

Jesus sent His twelve disciples to preach the kingdom of God. And the apostles, when they were returned, declared unto Him what things they had done. And Jesus spake to them of the kingdom of God (Luke 9:1-2, 9:10-11).

In the same:

When it was day, Jesus called His disciples; and He chose from the twelve, whom also He named apostles (Luke 6:13).

In the same:

I will send unto them prophets and apostles, and some of them they shall kill and persecute (Luke 11:49).

They are called "prophets and apostles," because by "prophets," as well as by "apostles," are meant those who were sent to teach truths; but by "prophets" those of the Old Testament, and by "apostles" those of the New. (That "prophets" in the Word signify those who teach truths and in a sense abstracted from persons the truths themselves, see Arcana Coelestia 2534.) As the "twelve apostles" signify the truths themselves of the church, it is said in Revelation:

The wall of the New Jerusalem had twelve foundations, and in them the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb (Revelation 21:14).

(That by the "New Jerusalem" is meant the church in respect to doctrine, see in the small work on The New Jerusalem and its Doctrine 6 ; that by its "wall" are signified the truths of doctrine for defense, see Arcana Coelestia 6419; by the "foundations of the wall" are signified the knowledges of the truth, on which doctrine is founded, n. 9643; by "twelve" are signified all truths in the complex, n. 577, 2089, 2129-2130, 3272, 3858, 3913. From this it is clear why it is said that in the foundations of the wall were the "names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.")