The following article in the Jerusalem Post yesterday alleging that John Hagee
said that Jews can get to Heaven without Jesus has caused a firestorm in the
Christian community.
see my explanation which follows.
Stephen
 
 

Falwell: Jews can get to heaven
"An evangelical pastor and an Orthodox rabbi, both from Texas, have apparently
persuaded leading Baptist preacher Jerry Falwell that Jews can get to heaven
without being converted to Christianity.

Televangelist John Hagee and Rabbi Aryeh Scheinberg, whose Cornerstone Church
and Rodfei Sholom congregations are based in San Antonio, told The Jerusalem
Post that Falwell had adopted Hagee's innovative belief in what Christians
refer to as "dual covenant" theology.

This creed, which runs counter to mainstream evangelism, maintains that the
Jewish people has a special relationship to God through the revelation at
Sinai and therefore does not need "to go through Christ or the Cross" to get
to heaven. "

continues at:
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satelli...cle%2FShowFull

I just finished reading Hagee's new book "Jerusalem Countdown." In it, he
presents a new rather bold discussion of divine election versus free will
using Romans 9-11. He comes to the conclusion that divine election only
applies to the Jewish people and free will is for the gentiles. God says that
He blinded the Jewish people Romans 11:8 and thus only God can remove the
blinders(like He did for me BTW). Thus God predestined some Jews to heaven and
some to hell like how he loved Jacob and hated Esau while they were still in
the womb Romans 9:13. A remnant would accept Christ as God chose but another
group would be predestined to hell. Gentiles would have the free will to all
accept or reject but God said that He did not want any of them to perish but
all to come to he glory of Christ. It is a fascinating theory but it does not
mandate a dual covenant theory. It just says that it is fruitless to witness
to Jews because only God can remove their blinders. But the only way to Heaven
is still through Jesus!
God bless,
Stephen