No Muslims don’t get a free pass. For those Muslims, or anyone else that have not been exposed to Chrisianity and are living their life according to the Beatitudes, they have a chance at salvation.
Why are Muslims or Jews such a concern when they both share the belief in the Abrahamic God? Does the little 12 year old girl or boy growing up in Israel who has known nothing else in their life really have to go to the Abrahamic God’s sheol/gehenna/eternal hell because they never had a knowledge of Christianity. In the end God will make the call.
***For those Muslims, or anyone else that have not been exposed to Chrisianity and are living their life according to the Beatitudes***
How can a Muslim who didn’t hear about Jesus find out about the Beatitudes?
Islam teaches enough about Jesus so no Muslim can claim ignorance about Him.
Jesus in Islam
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesus_in_Islam
“The belief that Jesus is a prophet is required in Islam, as it is for all prophets named in the Qur’an. “
Your views on salvation are an “enlightened” view in the eyes of mankind but have no foundation in His Holy written Words. It is true God is the Judge, but He did give us the command to love and believe in His only begotten Son Jesus Christ. And if the Beatitudes save us then why was there a need for the Cross and Empty Tomb? We are told without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness for sins.
I am not flaming here but conversing. We see in Matthew 5 Jesus tells that we must be as perfect as The Father in order to attain salvation according to the Law, which includes the Beatitudes. A Muslim following that and following fully without fail or fall the entire Law, will enter the Kingdom of God. Find me one person in all of human history who can claim this and we will conclude no one. Only the Son of God Jesus Christ truly God and truly man can claim this Perfection. Therefore the need for this spotless Lamb of God to go to the Cross.
Salvation is at the foot of the cross and the empty tomb. Not on Mt Sinai, but on Mt Zion.