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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... sin- ners ? This issue is not often addressed directly in discussions of the salva- tion of the unevangelized , but it is a critical starting point . We need to as- certain who needs to be saved before we can say how such people can be ...
... sin- ners ? This issue is not often addressed directly in discussions of the salva- tion of the unevangelized , but it is a critical starting point . We need to as- certain who needs to be saved before we can say how such people can be ...
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... sinful people have to believe , even when they receive God's self - revelation ? Assuming that the Fall of humankind into sin has disabled all of us spiritually so that faith in God is impossible without God's gracious enablement , whom ...
... sinful people have to believe , even when they receive God's self - revelation ? Assuming that the Fall of humankind into sin has disabled all of us spiritually so that faith in God is impossible without God's gracious enablement , whom ...
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... sin was that ev- eryone is born a sinner , alienated from God , guilty of enmity toward God and certain to commit acts of personal disobedience as soon as we are ca- pable of making moral judgments . Thus , there are no " innocent ...
... sin was that ev- eryone is born a sinner , alienated from God , guilty of enmity toward God and certain to commit acts of personal disobedience as soon as we are ca- pable of making moral judgments . Thus , there are no " innocent ...
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... sinful people assumes their voluntary rejection of divine saving revelation to all people . ( 7 ) Those who believe and follow God are given a greater illumination of the mind . ( 8 ) People will be judged according to the privilege of ...
... sinful people assumes their voluntary rejection of divine saving revelation to all people . ( 7 ) Those who believe and follow God are given a greater illumination of the mind . ( 8 ) People will be judged according to the privilege of ...
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... sin to suffer eternal punishments.20 A particularly significant incident in the development of the Roman Catholic Church's official aversion to ecclesiocentrism occurred in a letter from Pope Pius XII to the Bishop of Boston in 1949. He ...
... sin to suffer eternal punishments.20 A particularly significant incident in the development of the Roman Catholic Church's official aversion to ecclesiocentrism occurred in a letter from Pope Pius XII to the Bishop of Boston in 1949. He ...
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.