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1 | Are there isolated evidences for this | Acts 17:30 | Aspiring Overseer | 180852 | ||
Finder, I do not mean to be dense, but could you please restate your point(s) with respect to the following: "But this kind of hypothesis rules out the unique evidences that single individuals out of pagan societies could really have a fair opportunity to be saved. There doesn't seem to be any pattern from among the pagans that could justify that these isolated individuals had the same fair choice as the evangelized do. Which makes the following verses sound contradictory: " Thank you. AO |
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2 | The ignorant didn't need to repent | Acts 17:30 | Finder | 180856 | ||
AO, Excuse me for not being clear. There are too many implications on this question that sometimes I don't know how to formulate the question well. I appreciate your willingness to try to understand my point. Thank you for the contribution you have already given. I was trying to say that people seem to be saved out of a big number of peoples. If pagans are evangelized, then, most of a tribe may be converted. But there are no testimonies of single individuals of each generation of a non evangelized pagan culture, that proved to seek God and find Him. There are no patterns that indicate that Romans 1.20 could lead to salvation in circumstances like that. Like the the Buddhist that told Hudson Taylor why he had not come to evangelize the Chinese before his father had died. (What about the previous generations? Where are the evidences that out of the ignorant Chinese, some could have sensed the message of God through creation and then have obeyed? Did they really have a fair opportunity to know the Gospel? Or would there be another way?) Many points call my attention regarding universal truth and universal possibility of acknowledging God. There are not samples of individuals in history that came out of pagan cultures who found the God of the Bible by their own faithful obedience to the light that Rom 1:20 says they can perceive. Mass of pagans die without the God of the Bible and without evidences that might prove that they really have the same fair access that others have to the message of the Gospel. And are their best judgment and use of conscience enough to bring them to salvation? Billy Graham said that if they are faithful to the light they have, they will be saved, even if they don't hear anything about Christ. It seems that this is the case in Acts 17:30. Thank you, Finder |
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3 | The ignorant didn't need to repent | Acts 17:30 | DocTrinsograce | 180898 | ||
Hi, Finder... There is only one way of salvation. http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Delphi/8449/only.html In Him, Doc |
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4 | Do pagans have the chance you have | Acts 17:30 | Finder | 180970 | ||
Doc, Is it fair that you have the chance to know all you know about salvation and others die without that knowledge? Finder |
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5 | Do pagans have the chance you have | Acts 17:30 | DocTrinsograce | 180975 | ||
Again... Romans 9. We defer to the Word, not our faulty sense of fairness. | ||||||
6 | Do pagans have the chance you have | Acts 17:30 | humbledbyhisgrace | 180991 | ||
Amen! | ||||||