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Can one be saved (end up in heaven) if one does not believe in the divinity of Jesus?

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Your eternal life is determined by the content of your faith and Christ's divinity might be essential ... or maybe not. 🤔
 
Your eternal life is determined by the content of your faith and Christ's divinity might be essential ... or maybe not. 🤔
Interestingly, if one doesn't believe in the HUMANITY of Jesus, he can't be saved for sure.

Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God; because many false prophets have gone out into the world. By this you know the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of God, and every spirit that does not confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is not of God. And this is the spirit of the Antichrist, which you have heard was coming, and is now already in the world. (1 Jn. 4:1-3)
 
Interestingly, if one doesn't believe in the HUMANITY of Jesus, he can't be saved for sure.

Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God; because many false prophets have gone out into the world. By this you know the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of God, and every spirit that does not confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is not of God. And this is the spirit of the Antichrist, which you have heard was coming, and is now already in the world. (1 Jn. 4:1-3)

Interestingly, if one doesn't believe in the HUMANITY of Jesus
1 John 4:2 is talking about the deity of Christ.

Jesus Christ has come in the flesh. This is the first test of a true teacher: they acknowledge and proclaim that Jesus is God incarnate in human flesh. The Greek construction does not mean that they confess Christ as having come to earth, but that they confess that He came in the flesh to the earth, i.e., His human body was physically real. Both the full humanity and full deity of Jesus must be equally maintained by the teacher who is to be considered genuinely of the Spirit. The Holy Spirit testifies to the true nature of the Son, while Satan and his forces distort and deny that true nature. John accentuates the crucial importance of sound doctrine expressed in God's Word as the only absolute and trustworthy standard (cf. Isa_8:20).
 
Apparently a misunderstanding. So you do believe there must be a some degree quality, quantity and sincerity in faith in order to be saved (born again)?

Simply read again what I wrote, but do so without straining to find fault in every word. As you do, you'll find - hopefully - that your Strawman version of my view dissolves.
 
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