Judaism doesn’t require belief in God to enter heaven, just being a good moral person (so that rules out almost all of Isn’trael). No one’s been able to explain to me why the New Testament would’ve/could’ve changed that.
Reciting scripture from the NKJ Bible to me and I’ll respond back in scripture from the Catholic Bible. Oh what? There’s two more books in the Catholic Bible? But what about St Thomas? He was literally right there next to hayzues…why wasn’t his gospel included? The council of Nicea you say …
Almost seems like the curated collection we call Bible has had numerous politically motivated omissions and… Innumeral suspicious translations. Which is all quite silly, because we can still read the original works in Greek and Hebrew. We can directly translate them ourselves, if we want to be sure our compact with God is pure and holy.
In the days when Rome fed believers to lions, Christians were the only ones to walk into plague stricken neighborhoods and tend to the sick. Everyone abandoned the infirm as matter of course, except the Christians, who grew exponentially because they were the only ones who cared about the poor. They also gave all their shit away like the aesthetics. Material possessions mean nothing in the halls of the Lord. Early Christians were the antithesis of capitalism and heirarchy. Every power structure to ever touch what Jesus taught has usurped and destroyed his instructions to heaven.
If you’re a believer, you’d do best to stop believing power structures and read the works for yourself. Gambling eternity on the largest “trust me bro” in history is…idk. you’d deserve what you got then I guess. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯