This article is being written 'off the cuff'. Please make allowances for grammatical errors or a not thought through article. Apologies in advance :) .

The subject is Grace.

None of us can know the depths and true meaning of God's grace. We all may understand something of it, due to our own experiences, but cannot possibly know the true height, depth width, and quality of it, at least until we go and meet our Maker.

I believe in an all powerful God, an all loving and graceful God, and still a mysterious God. Which means that I have to apply that belief to all aspects of life and death.

Which brings me to the question, who will we find in Heaven?

There is a verse in the Bible that says all those that know Jesus as Lord and Saviour will enter the Kingdom of Heaven.

Ok, well that is the Christians sorted.

But what about those that have never heard of Jesus?
I cannot believe that God is so unkind as to condemn over half the people that have ever lived to an eternity without Him just because no one told them about Jesus. No, I know that God has instilled in mankind a spirit. That spirit causes people to seek and find the deeper and truer meaning and purpose to life. Many who have never heard of Jesus achnowledge a 'God'. For those that take consideration of the God they have discovered into their lives, maybe even worship in the way they have discovered too, I believe they too are heaven bound.

What about the Muslims and the Hindu's and others who worship another God?
I believe the same applies as for those who have never heard of Jesus. If they are sincerely worshipping in the spirit and in the truth (which not many 'Christians' can claim to do) of the divine revelation they have received, then they too will be accepted by God.

This is great. We are really getting to know and understand and grasp a sense of God's grace for mankind, the people He loves so much.

But there is a warning or two in the bible for those that the claim to be Christians. Much more will be expected from us, but still, according to His grace and love for us, it will be according to our knowledge and revelation of Him.

Now I guess, we all want to be recipients of this great love and grace, but there is a price to be paid. That price is that we have to accept unconditionally ALL those He extends His love and grace to. That means, the Africans, Arabs, Americans, Europeans, Russians, French etc etc..

Then there are those like rapists and murderers. They too will be judged according to their knowledge and revelation.

Then it could start getting really difficult. What about people like, Adolf Hitler, Fred West, Idi Amin, Stalin, Sadaam Hussein? We cannot judge their standing before God, but if He chooses that they are due his Love and grace, we cannot argue. In His eyes their 'sin' is no worse than ours. Sin is sin. And His love covers over (hides) a multidue of sins.

I am not saying that the evil people of this world will get to heaven, but they could!! They too could experience the forgiveness we hope for. They too could be genuinely repentant. We have to be prepared for that.

The only ones we can say for certainty wont see the Kingdom of Heaven are those that have deliberately gone against the knowledge and revelation they have had of Him and died in that rebellion.

Incidentally, when I use the word 'knowledge' I am not speaking of an intellectual knowledge, but a knowledge, or enlightenment, held in the heart brought about by revelation.