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1 | What about those who have never heard? | Rom 1:16 | Hank | 39456 | ||
Meusing, I like your sensible, appropriate and biblical responses: John 21:22 and Acts 4:12. Being no statistician, I cannot offer an exact number of the questions (and responses too) that have appeared on this forum in the past year that could have, and should have, been answered in the same way that Jesus answered Peter: "What is that to you?" --Hank | ||||||
2 | What about those who have never heard? | Rom 1:16 | wdc | 103375 | ||
Hank, Read my posting a few lines up and let me not what you think. wdc |
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3 | What about those who have never heard? | Rom 1:16 | Hank | 103437 | ||
wdc - Sure, I'd be glad to respond to your post, but first could you give me the post number so I can make sure I'm responding to the right one? --Hank | ||||||
4 | What about those who have never heard? | Rom 1:16 | wdc | 103471 | ||
Hank, Here is what I wrote. Subject: The Gospel the sole means of salvation? Note: Pagans are not damned without an oppurtunity to believe. My understanding of Rom. 1:14-21. God reveals Himself to all mankind through various ways. v. 16 the gospel v. 20 in creation (I understand this to mean that if any man will just look around, he will come to the conclusion that this world did not happen by chance, that there is a master creator. God says He has revealed Himself in creation, even His eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:" I believe that every person is born with the knowledge that he and this world did not just happen, he is born with a longing in his heart for more, or something else, and that something else is what died in man when Adam sinned, the spiritual part that communed with God. As sinners, whether in some dark remote part of the world or in America, we are dead in our trespasses and sins and cannot communicate with God as such. I believe the whole passage hinges on the last part of verse 17, from faith unto faith. The righteousness of God is revealed from faith unto faith. When anyone, even someone that has never heard the gospel, acknowledges that this world and himself did not just happen, but there must be a God or supreme being that controls it all, that is the first step of faith. And I believe God obligates Himself to that person to give him more revealtion, leading eventually to the gospel of Jesus Christ. God may use a missionary, a book, a tract, radio, who knows, because God is not limited in His power nor creativity. But I believe that God does obligate Himself to that person that takes that first step of faith. The problem comes in verse 21, many choose not to believe what they see. They ascribed the world to false god's, to some big bang or evolution, or something of their own vain imagination. When they knew God, had that first knowledge of Him that comes from what God has revealed to them, they did not worship Him as God, and therefore they damn themselves. On the other hand, I believe it is our part to make sure they hear. As Paul says, we debtors, verse 14, we must tell them. This is my understanding of this passage and how the gospel works, even in places where they have not heard. I just wanted your thoughts on this. wdc |
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5 | What about those who have never heard? | Rom 1:16 | Hank | 103569 | ||
In Romans 1:18-32 Paul has both good news and bad news for the world. The good news is that God has provided an atonement for sin. The bad news is that all men, Jews, Gentiles, heathen -- all men need atonement for their sins. In v.16 Paul already stated where that atonement is. He said that that atonement, that power of God to salvation for everyone who believes, is the gospel of Christ (Roman 1:16) .... God does not operate with many standards or avenues for salvation. There is only one scarlet thread of redemption, the one made crimson by the blood of Christ. There is only one Way: Jesus (John 14:6); only one Name: Jesus (Acts 4:12) In an era of religious pluralism, Romans 1:16, John 14:6, and Acts 4:12 (plus many more passages of Scripture) indict this modern spirit of religious pluralism, and require all of us who profess Christ to oppose the dangerous trends which undermine the basis for global evangelism. The statement in Acts 4:12 that there is no salvation "in any other" reveals the exclusive nature of the theology of the early church. Today Christians who affirm that there is no salvation "in any other" are frequently ridiculed and scorned as right-wing, Bible-thumping bigots. Unfortunately some religious groups who claim to be Christian have compromised and no longer teach that salvation is exlusively found in the blood of Christ. But it is interesting to note that in John 14:6 Jesus called Himself "the Way" and that the early disciples are known as followers of "the Way" (see Acts 9:2; 19:9). To the early disciples, "the Way" was the only way. Regardless of what the world thinks today or what compromising churches teach, "the Way" is still the only way. --Hank | ||||||
6 | What about those who have never heard? | Rom 1:16 | wdc | 103570 | ||
Hank. What are you doing up this late at night? I'm at work, what's your excuse? I agree whole heartedly that Jesus is the only way. What I see there is that if man will acknowledge God without the knowledge of the gospel, God will obligate Himself to that man to get the gospel to him. There will never be another way to get to God, but some don't know the way. God is not willing that any should perish, and will do whatever it takes to get the gospel to them. Sometime that first step of faith on man's part may be as simple as saying, "You know, this world didn't just happen." I believe if we are faithful to the light (knowledge) we have, God will give us more, and lead us to repentance unto salvation if we will follow. Thanks for you input. wdc |
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