Subject: Did Adam die lost? |
Bible Note: Seth is the child I was refering to. Christ was supposed to be a substitution for the sins of the world, and as I recall, Adam and Eve believed that Seth might have been the Messiah (bit premature, but that seems to be what they thought). As for the assumption that Adam was saved, I'm not saying that. I'm merely saying that I think that there is a strong possibility that by naming his child what he did, that he was faithfully looking forward to the coming of the Messiah. However, at the same time, I generally, don't like to judge one way or the other on whether a person is saved or not, regardless of if it's a person who's still alive or somebody, like in Adam's case, who's been dead for thousands of years. At least in the case of someone who's still alive, if you assume a person is saved, and you are wrong, you may have forfeited a chance to share the gospel and greatly affected that person's life in eternity. Even if the person eventually does become saved, they still lost valuable time which could have been spent truely serving our Lord, just because you didn't talk to them or even pray for them. And conversely, by assuming a person is not saved because of their actions (yes, I'm aware that they should be showing fruit, but hear me out), you can alienate not only that person but other people as well if you share that doubt in a person's salvation with another person. Instead, pray for the person and try to spend time talking with the person about what the Lord means to them. That topic of conversation will almost always reveal the truth. As for guys that have been dead for millenia... honestly, does it affect your life one way or the other besides satifying curiousity? |