(January 14, 2015 at 11:50 am)Davka Wrote: And the hundreds of millions of Chinese who were born, lived, and died before a single Christian ever set foot there? God was waiting to care about the Chinese until the 21st century?
The undeniable fact is that the vast majority of humanity has lived and died in complete ignorance of the Gospel.
Furthermore, which religion you accept is almost completely dependent on where you were born and who your parents were. You believe the way you believe because that's what you were taught in America. Had you been born in Iran, you would most likely be just as passionate about the "truth" of Islam.
Again, we are only responisble for what we have been given, as per the parable of the talents. For those 100's of millions they like the rest of us will be judged according to what God has given them to be responsible for.
The false idea of needing one specific view/One demominational system of Christian belief comes from the idea that their is only one type of acceptable for of Christianity. In essence "One true Christian ™" When in fact the reason we do not have one set of rule to govern every aspect of worship (like the Jews did) is because we are only responsible to what we have been given over to understand.
This way it is not the rights rituals and traditions that save us, it is the condition of our hearts that can be judged or held to account.
