The bigger question brought up from the inclusiveness is the idea that Jesus is the only way into heaven. That salvation is only through Christ Jesus.

People will use this as a way to try to exclude others.

Am I to understand that the loving power of Jesus stops at the grave? Of course not! He will not condemn his children just because they have never heard of him or were taught to hate him (nor is our salvation dependent upon converting the lost and the un-learned).

You cannot on one hand say that “God is Love” (1 John 4v16) while believing him to only love a select few. Which of you, if you had the power, would condemn your own children to eternal punishment if they never knew you solely because they had been separated from you at the hour of their birth? How about if the last thing they said to you was wicked and cruel?

If you then, who are not as loving as you profess our heavenly Father to be, know how to give compassion and mercy to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give compassion and mercy to you!

Either he is good or he is not.

We cannot profess he is good while we believe otherwise in our hearts.

Our salvation is not based upon our earning it. It is based upon the incarnate life, death, resurrection, and ascension of Jesus Christ. He is the only way into heaven. But not in the way we think.

We do not need to say some magical incantation to be given the secret knock we perform at the gates of heaven. He has already cleared the way. We are all invited, in this life and in the life-after, to follow Him down the path he has created. He will never force us to walk that path. It is our choice, because that is how he loves us.

John says: [Speaking of Heaven and the glory of God] By its light will the nations walk, and the kings of the earth will bring their glory into it, and its gates will never be shut. Revelation 21:24 and 25

I am in them and you are in me. May they experience such perfect unity that the world will know that you sent me and that you love them as much as you love me. (John is quoting Jesus) John 17:23