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1 | Mentally incapacitated can be saved? | 2 Tim 3:15 | wry | 165490 | ||
How can someone learn the scriptures unto salvation if he is mentally or psychologically incapacitated? Will he go to hell? | ||||||
2 | Mentally incapacitated can be saved? | 2 Tim 3:15 | DocTrinsograce | 165498 | ||
Dear wry, Salvation is not a matter of mental states or psychological ability. It is not something that takes place in the emotions or the will, although it impacts all of these things (Romans 5:5; 1 John 3:21, 24). It is a work (Hebrews 5:9) and gift of God (Ephesians 2:8) whereby at a time of His own choosing (Ephesians 1:10), those that belong to Him (Ephesians 1:4), though dead in sin, are made alive (John 11:25). It is a mysterious work (John 3:8), one whose exact machinations we will never fully understand. (Use the search command for the words "ordo salutis" for those things that are revealed in the Word.) Certainly, under normal circumstances there is a definite -- although not exhaustively quantifiable -- set of truths that a believer must necessarily comprehend in the process of salvation. However, that process is a spiritual one, not a mental one (1 Corinthians 2:14). It seems apparent that this is why some people who are "mentally challenged" can exhibit obvious evidences of regeneration, and why others do not have any clear memory of the salvation experience yet manifest lives of love and obedience to the Lord. God inevitably and certainly saves those who are His own, working when, where, and how He pleases for their benefit and His glory. (see John 3:3, 5, 6, 8) In Him, Doc |
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