I already know that. Where is the misunderstanding? :confused:
Is Faith Necessary for Salvation?
Discussion in 'Baptist Theology & Bible Study' started by Baptist_Pastor/Theologian, Nov 12, 2006.
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Adrian Rogers once said that a sinner may not have enough light to save him, but he has enough sin to damn him. I have often thought of those who have never heard the gospel. Where they stand with God. But it is hard to get around what Rom 10 says about not believing on him whom they have not heard, & the need of the preacher. That's why I believe strongly in missions & I believe God will send a preacher to reach His elect around the world.
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Stated another way: God desires all to be saved. All need the gospel to be saved. Therefore someway, somehow, all will hear the gospel. God is obligated, or he would be unfair.
BUT....BUT...if all don't hear the gospel, God must have provided another way to heaven that we don't know about, but must be that way, because everybody deserves a chance. God would be unfair otherwise.
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As you know, I disagree with the premise, so I wind up somewhere else.
Humanly speaking, I hope you're right.
I think we've whipped this puppy enough, so I'm pretty much going to lurk, unless something else comes along where I'm unable to resist a comment.
Thanks for a good discussion, and the Christ-like spirit in which you conducted yourself. -
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So this may be a clue as to their end.
All I can say for sure is that Rom. 10 makes it pretty clear that I man has to believe the gospel to be saved. -
Read this passage and think about what it says.
Isaiah 43
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1 Peter 3:
"18": For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit:
"19": By which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison;
"20": Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water.
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And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name JESUS: for he shall save his people from their sins. -Matthew 1:21.
The answer to the question really is that "clear-cut." Jesus made the once-for-all atonement for sin, and "Who shall lay anything to the charge of God's elect? [It is] God that justifieth. Who [is] he that condemneth? [It is] Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us. " -Romans 8:33, 34. "For [there is] one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus;" -1 Timothy 2:5.
According to Strong's 3316, a mediator is "one who intervenes between two, either in order to make or restore peace and friendship, or form a compact, or for ratifying a covenant; a medium of communication, arbitrator." Roman Catholics have made the Church, Mary, and dead "saints" mediators and Protestants have made missionaries, evangelists, and "soul-winners" mediators. There is ONE mediator - Christ Jesus! -
As Baptist's what are we to say about the Trinity?
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We've wandered down many goat paths already; the Baptist view of the Trinity (which is entirely orthodox) deserves another topic.
Thanks.
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