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41 | Educational guarantee for life and godli | Prov 22:6 | Finder | 183453 | ||
Thanks for your insights Hank. And somehow you gave the whole answer to this question. I will keep that in mind. Thank you for your prayer. Finder |
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42 | Educational guarantee for life and godli | Prov 22:6 | Finder | 183447 | ||
Jeff, Be sure your answer didn't offer any contribution as to how the referred verse may be applied clearly in reality. The illustrations of all the people that were raised in Christian homes and today consider Christianity totally irrelevant is for me a far clearer answer to me than the vague answer you provided. Finder |
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43 | Educational guarantee for life and godli | Prov 22:6 | Finder | 183424 | ||
I found a very serious problem in the book of Proverbs. Solomon who wrote the book said: Proverbs 22:6 Train a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not turn from it. But he himself was taught by David and abandoned what he had learned. Could it be that he learned with his father to have wives and concubines and just excelled on this? Honestly I don't believe any human being is conditioned by what they are taught as kids. I have seen many change their ways no matter what kind of teaching they had as kids. The only thing I am sure continues in them is the psychological conditionments that don't leave the subconscious mind. But their actual life style are subject to all kinds of change, both for those who were raised in Christian homes and pagan homes. Now, what to do with this passage of Scriptures? Thank you, Finder |
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44 | Do pagans have the chance you have | Acts 17:30 | Finder | 180995 | ||
Doc, I don't know if I am observing the right rules of interpretation here, but it seems that there is a difference here. I was not referring to the house of Israel. The house of Israel had the revelation of God. They could not think God was not fair. But rather I was referring to peoples that did not have that revelation. |
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45 | What choice do the lost have | Acts 17:30 | Finder | 180993 | ||
CDBJ, I can't trace back the message in which you stated the idea that left that impression. I don't know how to use the system here very well. But I remember what I meant with my statement. I just said that since your ideas made me think that God alone decides who will be saved, there is nothing to do but wait to see if in the end we are saved or not. This idea opposes what I would think to be fair for everyone to have equal opportunity to be saved. Finder |
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46 | When is the revelation clear | Acts 17:30 | Finder | 180971 | ||
Hello Jeff, When you mentioned that ALL have had the revelation of God presented to us but we rejected that I can not remember when I rejected that. The only opportunity I am conscious of coming to know the revelation of God was after investing LOTS of time searching on the Internet since 2002 until now, and I still think I don't know everything. Otherwise I wouldn't be asking these questions. But I have not rejected it. And I know that there are multitudes of pagans that don't have the same access to the revelation that I have. I accept this revelation. But many, even if they hear about it quickly, won't really understand what it really means. Thank you, Finder |
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47 | 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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48 | Isn't reality more difficult than that | Acts 17:30 | Finder | 180967 | ||
Doc, That is the easy part to understand. The difficult one is the unfair side of the whole situation. When innumerable peoples die without a chance to know and understand about this exclusivism. Thank you, Finder (Still trying to find) |
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49 | What choice do the lost have | Acts 17:30 | Finder | 180964 | ||
AO, Thanks for your answer. But it sure adds another problem to my concerns. This time, not only many people die without ever being able to hear the Gospel and are lost, but you seem to indicate that this process was preordained and that there is nothing to do about it. And I also thought that it is unfair that Romans 10:14 didn't happen to a vast number of people that had needed and still need to hear the Gospel. The impression that I was left with is that we all have to just wait and see what our fate will be, because we have nothing to do about it. Thank you, Finder |
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50 | What choice do pagans have | Acts 17:30 | Finder | 180963 | ||
AO, Thanks for your answer. But it sure adds another problem to my concerns. This time, not only many people die without ever being able to hear the Gospel and are lost, but you seem to indicate that this process was preordained and that there is nothing to do about it. And I also thought that it is unfair that Romans 10:14 didn't happen to a vast number of people that had needed and still need to hear the Gospel. The impression that I was left with is that we all have to just wait and see what our fate will be, because we have nothing to do about it. Thank you, Finder |
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51 | How deep can the Gospel go | Acts 17:30 | Finder | 180872 | ||
AO, The problem would be for those who are faithfull to all these evidences about God, to find Him in Christ if they are immersed in cultures that are deeply religious in ways that contradict the Gospel. Like some Muslim teenagers that are conditioned to be bombers and think that Allah is God and die as suicide bombers. For me, no matter how much these fanatics would try to conceive God in their minds, they would have this strong cultural element to force them to see reality and God from a very narrow point of view. And emotional conditioning is a strong element in forming consciousness. I wonder if these suicide bombers, dying as young people, could ever get to know God. And there are inummerable Muslims in the world. Just to give one illustration. How deep can the Gospel go if it is the only means of salvation? Thank you, Finder |
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52 | 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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53 | Are there isolated evidences for this | Acts 17:30 | Finder | 180848 | ||
AO, thank you for your answer. It really addressed the topic of the question. But I was left wondering concerning the following comment: " could it be they had not asked? In other words, is it not possible that none questioned the truth of their pagan religion? Instead of imploring God for the truth, they set off to find it through man-made avenues." 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: NAS Romans 1:20 For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen, being understood through what has been made, so that they are without excuse. NAS Acts 17:30 "Therefore having overlooked the times of ignorance, God is now declaring to men that all everywhere should repent, NAS Acts 14:16 "And in the generations gone by He permitted all the nations to go their own ways; Thank you, Finder |
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54 | Was it common for Gentiles to be saved | Acts 11:18 | Finder | 180824 | ||
Could you please tell me how the Gentiles got saved from the time of Abraham until the time of Christ's Ascension? Thank you, Finder |
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55 | Die without the revelation of the Gospel | Acts 17:30 | Finder | 180820 | ||
I read a book about Hudson Taylor and his missionary work in China where a Buddhist who converted to Christ asked Mr. Taylor why they had not arrived while his father was alive. How could the father and grandfather of this ex-Buddhist have been saved? I also read "Eternity in their Hearts" where the author points out that if the peoples that don't have access to the gospel are faithfull to the light they have, the gospel would be presented to them. But it didn't prove true concerning the previous generations of any of those groups. Their fathers, grandfathers and greatgrandfathers also died without hearing the gospel. Would it be just a circumstancial problem because there were no missionaries, or this is a case of flat predestination? How could the ones that are not reached with the message be morally accoutable to a message they never heard? Billy Graham and the Catholics say that those who are sincere and live according to the best light they have, above the level of lifestyle of their surroundings, will be granted salvation in Jesus Christ. They say that in many tribes they don't know the name of Christ but believe in Him by the way they respond to life and nature around them. Could this then be true that these peoples are saved without ever hearing the message of the Gospel? If you don't have the answers, could you refer to me those who would have them? Thank you, Finder |
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56 | How to deal with extreme evil | Titus 3:1 | Finder | 174045 | ||
I understand that the Pastor/Theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer was part of a group that planned to assassinate Hitler. Do you think he was right? Thank you, Finder |
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57 | Weren't we stolen our will to chose | Rom 5:12 | Finder | 168684 | ||
Hello Mark, (correction of previous note) I am reconciled to our Heavenly Father and the peace that it brings also relieve to a certain extent to the pain and suffering of bearing a sinful nature and living in a fallen world. The reason for my questions is that I wonder if there could have been a less painful way to bring about human life and maintain its existence. Thanks, Finder |
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58 | Weren't we stolen our will to chose | Rom 5:12 | Finder | 168683 | ||
Hello Mark, I am reconciled to our Heavenly Father and the peace that it brings also aliviates the pain and suffering of bearing a sinful nature and living in a fallen world. The reason for my questions is that I wonder if there could have been a less painful way to bring about human life and maintain its existence. Thanks, Finder |
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59 | Weren't we stolen our will to chose | Rom 5:12 | Finder | 168680 | ||
Dear Mark, Thanks for the answer. But I still think that if God is all powerfull and the very creator of DNA, he could have given the same chance to everybody else to be born without sin for each one to have his/her own choice if he/she would desobey and fall or not. Thanks, Finder |
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60 | Could David hate his enemies | Ps 139:21 | Finder | 168657 | ||
I thought Christians should love their enemies and have compassion towards the lost. But now I got shocked when I read this part of Scriptures: Psalm 139:21-22 21 Do I not hate those who hate you, O LORD, and abhor those who rise up against you? 22 I have nothing but hatred for them; I count them my enemies. Isn't that a contradiction? Finder |
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