(April 29, 2012 at 11:11 am)C Rod Wrote: Who says he sends people to hell for not accepting his "revealed revelation in nature" or existing before Christ. So many ways for salvation you so aptly put it. We dont know how he will ultimately judge. Don't you think Phagh Rik the village raper would be condemn, and Msea Gyrt who establishes that as wrong for the village would be saved. Jesus said many times we would be judged on what we did, i like this, "there is nothing concealed that will not be disclosed, or hidden that will not be made known."
I'm dealing with here the traditional fundamentalist view of Christian salvation (both free-grace salvation and lordship salvation). Those Christians do know why someone goes to hell in their worldview. The "revealed nature" business was created by Christians in response to the pre-gospel native problem and was inspired by a speech Paul made to some philosophers in one of the NT books.
Also, "So many ways for salvation you so aptly put it. We dont know how he will ultimately judge." How do you know you're saved? If you know how you're saved, how do you not know how others aren't saved?
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"The lord doesn't work in mysterious ways, but in ways that are indistinguishable from his nonexistence."
-- George Yorgo Veenhuyzen quoted by John W. Loftus in The End of Christianity (p. 103).
"The lord doesn't work in mysterious ways, but in ways that are indistinguishable from his nonexistence."
-- George Yorgo Veenhuyzen quoted by John W. Loftus in The End of Christianity (p. 103).