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Apr 2 |
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Did Jesus actually ever say “if you don't believe in me you go to Hell”? John 3:18 says he the unbeliever "condemned already". David also mentioned this - the sin that leads to condemnation isn't "not believing", the sin is "their deeds were evil". |
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Apr 2 |
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Did Jesus actually ever say “if you don't believe in me you go to Hell”? I realize the Irish kid example is not a commonly held view, and there isn't any way to back it up. John Piper would say no. C.S. Lewis surprisingly suggests yes in the Chronicles of Narnia. |
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Apr 2 |
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Did Jesus actually ever say “if you don't believe in me you go to Hell”? @Affable: There are at least a helf dozen references to Abraham's faith being "counted to him as righhteousness". I can't think of any denomination that doesn't claim that Abraham is (or will be) in heaven. Yes, it was his faith in God that saved him, but it wasn't his belief in the incarnated Jesus. I'm NOT saying that you can be saved without Christ - I'm saying that people were saved before Jesus was born as a human and died and rose. The atonement was applied to some who had never heard the name Jesus. |
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Apr 1 |
answered | Did Jesus actually ever say “if you don't believe in me you go to Hell”? |
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Apr 1 |
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Did Jesus actually ever say “if you don't believe in me you go to Hell”? In the KJV, it's possible to misunderstand this passage based on verse 19 and assume that having the Light shone on one's deeds is the punishment. "This is the condemnation" in verse 19 should really be "This is the verdict", or more so "This is the reason/evidence for the verdict". |
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Mar 6 |
awarded | Critic |
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Feb 27 |
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What is the source of hatred often perceived by Christians in western society? Good point about persecution not being good. It's easy for a Christian to act in a very unchrist-like manner, and perceive the predictable response as persecution rather than justified criticism. It happens when we miss out the "on account of the Son of Man" part of that verse. |
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Feb 27 |
answered | How important is a “moment” of conversion? |
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Feb 27 |
answered | Do Christians have secret handshakes? |
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Feb 26 |
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Do Christians believe in Ethical Relativism, in other words, that good and bad are determined by culture, society, tradtions, etc? I agree with most of what you're saying, I just think that what you're saying doesn't address his question on moral relativism, or his question on deriving a rational moral code. Just because everyone breaks the Law, doesn't mean that it doesn't apply differently at different times. It also doesn't mean that the law can't be arrived at without refering to the scriptures. The Deut. verse is a warning against distorting the law, but God certainly wasn't done revealing the law when Deuteronomy was finished, nor is His revelation exclusive to His special revelation. |
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Feb 26 |
awarded | Teacher |
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Feb 26 |
answered | Do Christians believe in Ethical Relativism, in other words, that good and bad are determined by culture, society, tradtions, etc? |
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Feb 26 |
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Do Christians believe in Ethical Relativism, in other words, that good and bad are determined by culture, society, tradtions, etc? I take issue with: "For Christians, the law that is laid out in Scripture is the moral law." - the law laid out in scripture is the moral law as revealed, in divinely inspired, but humanly accessible media, to a specific people group at a specific time. The scriptures cannot be a full revelation of the Law, because they are constrained by our limitations. They are at best an image of the Law that we can "see darkly as through a glass". |
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Feb 13 |
awarded | Supporter |
