Re: The Shack: listen to the author

On 20/10/2010 16:10, Kendall Down wrote:
On 20/10/2010 14:22, Alwyn wrote:

But 1 John 5:10 makes it quite clear that explicit belief in Christ is
required for salvation: 'He that believeth on the Son of God hath the
witness in himself: he that believeth not God hath made him a liar;
because he believeth not the record that God gave of his Son.'

It depends on whether you regard the "believeth not" as an active or a
passive believing not. I would regard it as active - ie. the unbeliever
has actively rejected Christ. The passive unbeliever - someone who has
never heard of Christ - is not addressed by the verse.

So in fact missionizing can have the effect of sending more people to hell, as it gives more people a chance to reject the gospel. That's certainly an interesting perspective!


Alwyn


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