Who Can Be Saved?: Reassessing Salvation in Christ and World ReligionsInterVarsity Press, 2009 M09 20 Throughout history millions have lived and died without hearing the gospel of Jesus Christ. Despite vigorous missionary efforts, large populations of the world today have never been evangelized. And now religious pluralism has set up shop on Main Street. The question "Who can be saved?" forces itself on the minds of Christians like never before.
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... religious commitment would be good for them . In countries that foster genuine religious freedom , the religious diver- sity of the population is visible . Increasingly , city dwellers have neighbors of a different religion . As religious ...
... religious commitment would be good for them . In countries that foster genuine religious freedom , the religious diver- sity of the population is visible . Increasingly , city dwellers have neighbors of a different religion . As religious ...
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... religions , for the most part they have focused on the questions of truth ( do all the religions teach the same essential truths ? Is truth propositional or ineffable ? ) and salvation ( can non - Christians be saved ? ) , not ...
... religions , for the most part they have focused on the questions of truth ( do all the religions teach the same essential truths ? Is truth propositional or ineffable ? ) and salvation ( can non - Christians be saved ? ) , not ...
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... religious activity of those individuals ? Fur- thermore , how should we regard the things written by key figures in other religions , those whose writings are viewed with the same sort of respect that Christians give to the Bible ? Are ...
... religious activity of those individuals ? Fur- thermore , how should we regard the things written by key figures in other religions , those whose writings are viewed with the same sort of respect that Christians give to the Bible ? Are ...
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... religious options would be obvious and conversion would result . If this did not occur , the assumption may have been that it was be- cause of the inherent depravity and hardness of heart of the devotees of those religions . But ...
... religious options would be obvious and conversion would result . If this did not occur , the assumption may have been that it was be- cause of the inherent depravity and hardness of heart of the devotees of those religions . But ...
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... religions of our own day . Thesis 21 : Formalized religions are ambiguous responses to divine revelation , and so are the religious commitments of individual members of those religions . Both the institutional religions and the persons ...
... religions of our own day . Thesis 21 : Formalized religions are ambiguous responses to divine revelation , and so are the religious commitments of individual members of those religions . Both the institutional religions and the persons ...
Contents
What About the Saved Who Did Not Believe in Jesus? | 165 |
Can Infants Be Saved? | 204 |
Who Is Able to Believe? | 230 |
Why Should We Send Missionaries? | 259 |
HOW DO THE RELIGIONS FIT INTO GODS PURPOSES IN THE WORLD? | 295 |
How Do Religions Come into Being? | 297 |
How Did the Covenant People Relate to Other Religions? | 323 |
Glossary | 483 |
By What Standard Are People Judged? | 123 |
Can People Be Saved If They Only Have General Revelation? | 138 |
Author Index | 498 |
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Page 112 - I say unto you, That many shall come from the east and from the west, and shall sit down with Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, in the kingdom of heaven : But the children of the kingdom shall be cast out into outer darkness : there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
Page 111 - For from the rising of the sun to its setting my name is great among the nations, and in every place incense is offered to my name, and a pure offering; for my name is great among the nations, says the LORD of hosts.
Page 55 - Those also can attain to everlasting salvation who through no fault of their own do not know the gospel of Christ or His Church, yet sincerely seek God and, moved by grace, strive by their deeds to do His will as it is known to them through the dictates of conscience.
Page 254 - For by the grace given me I say to every one of you: Do not think of yourself more highly than you ought, but rather think of yourself with sober judgment, in accordance with the measure of faith God has given you.
Page 299 - Without further ado, then, a religion is: (1) a system of symbols which acts to (2) establish powerful, pervasive, and longlasting moods and motivations in men by (3) formulating conceptions of a general order of existence and (4) clothing these conceptions with such an aura of factuality that (5) the moods and motivations seem uniquely realistic.
Page 375 - In many and various ways God spoke of old to our fathers by the prophets; but in these last days he has spoken to us by a Son, whom he appointed the heir of all things, through whom also he created the world.
Page 209 - Elect infants, dying in infancy, are regenerated and saved by Christ through the Spirit, who worketh when, and where, and how he pleaseth. So also are all other elect persons, who are incapable of being outwardly called by the ministry of the word.
Page 378 - They are Israelites, and to them belong the sonship, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the worship, and the promises; to them belong the patriarchs, and of their race, according to the flesh, is the Christ.
Page 188 - I am not speaking of you all; I know whom I have chosen; it is that the scripture may be fulfilled, 'He who ate my bread has lifted his heel against me.