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What is the biblical basis for claiming that salvation is an individual decision?
Technically the Bible does answer your question with a Yes, to back up my claim, I will refer you to the book of Saint John where it is written that the decision to accept or reject the offer of ...
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If salvation is by faith, and faith comes by hearing the word of Christ, can we be saved without having heard of Jesus?
God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by ...
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If salvation is by faith, and faith comes by hearing the word of Christ, can we be saved without having heard of Jesus?
Eastern Orthodoxy: "Yes*"
So here the 4 issues with this answer.
"Will render men slothful, and discourage them from keeping the commandments of God. It will encourage them to depart ...
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If salvation is by faith, and faith comes by hearing the word of Christ, can we be saved without having heard of Jesus?
I agree that people who have not heard the Gospel most likely will be lost, and besides the arguments presented here, I want to add personal conviction. Let's review the warning God gave Cain before ...
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Is God being just by sending Christian murderers to Heaven?
I don't know where this angle of Christian vs non-Christian comes from. This must be a severe misunderstanding of christian doctrine. Even in the Old Testament, it is made very clear that repentace is ...
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Is God being just by sending Christian murderers to Heaven?
Even a universalist can answer this... Hi, I believe in Apokatatasis, that everyone will receive God's Love.
Now, God's love might be the loving fire of purification.... and that is hell.
Everyone ...
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How does salvation of people with dissociative identity disorder work?
As Traditional Catholic Angelic theology and history shows that even those advanced towards God, as later they recognized as Saints, may be Demon Oppressed or Possessed, and all such Oppressions and ...
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If salvation is by faith, and faith comes by hearing the word of Christ, can we be saved without having heard of Jesus?
This question was addressed directly in an encyclical of Pope Pius IX, published on August 10, 1863, Quanto Conficiamur Moerore;
"It is known to Us and to You that those who are in an invincible ...
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Is God being just by sending Christian murderers to Heaven?
First part of question is Yes, If God does anything, it is always 'Just'.
And so, remains the rest of the rest of the question:
" .. by sending Christian murderers to Heaven?"
Since '...
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Is God being just by sending Christian murderers to Heaven?
First of all, no one who continues in sin(killing men made in the image of God) is born again regardless of whether they have Christian beliefs or not. A new born Christian is expected to keep the ...
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Is God being just by sending Christian murderers to Heaven?
Just because someone holds Christian beliefs does not mean that they are automatically saved - nor that one who doesn’t hold Christian beliefs is automatically damned. The scriptures are clear that we ...
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Is God being just by sending Christian murderers to Heaven?
Imagine you are resurrected in the Kingdom of God and Saint Paul is showing you around. You encounter Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot, Attila the Hun, Judas, and a few other similarly hated people.
Do you ...
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On Implicit Knowledge of the Incarnation
Preliminary
Your question can be interpreted 2 ways due to your not being clear what you mean by "protoevangelium":
In Christian context, "protoevangelium" = Gen 3:15, encoded in ...
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If salvation is by faith, and faith comes by hearing the word of Christ, can we be saved without having heard of Jesus?
Faith is the means / instrument through which salvation comes to us, but it does not in and of itself bestow salvation. As James says, even the demons believe - and shudder.
What then is the function ...
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Is God being just by sending Christian murderers to Heaven?
While there are significant denominational differences over the doctrines of salvation, in general Christianity teaches these three truths:
Humanity is meant to exist in joyful loving relationship ...
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If salvation is by faith, and faith comes by hearing the word of Christ, can we be saved without having heard of Jesus?
I answer as one of those in the Reformed Protestant category. Three considerations strike me as worth mentioning.
Huge numbers of people have heard of Jesus, but they remain unsaved.
People who are ...
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How does salvation of people with dissociative identity disorder work?
The judgment of God does not remain on people who do not know what they are doing, remember this famous quote by Jesus? Father forgive them, for the know not what they do, the same stands for crazy ...
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If salvation is by faith, and faith comes by hearing the word of Christ, can we be saved without having heard of Jesus?
There is a sense in saying that the bible is silent about it. I do not think the bible teaches whether those who did not hear the gospel will be saved. However, there are hints in that direction. I ...
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If salvation is by faith, and faith comes by hearing the word of Christ, can we be saved without having heard of Jesus?
This is a matter of opinion but the NT does provide some support for the idea. The term "anonymous Christian" was coined by theologian Karl Rahner in support of the proposition that people ...
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How does salvation of people with dissociative identity disorder work?
This question makes no sense, because you are viewing the situation in a legal sense. (and consider heaven and hell as places instead of states of being)
If you stick to the legal sense that your ...
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How does salvation of people with dissociative identity disorder work?
Consider the tens of billions of people throughout history that never even heard of the God of the Bible, much less of Jesus (the only name by which one can be saved).
Their situation is not really ...
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How does salvation of people with dissociative identity disorder work?
From God's point of view, there is only one soul. Consider Edward who suffers an advanced Alzheimer's disease that causes him not to recognize his own wife & children. Would his family disown ...
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How do the various churches define the moment we receive the Holy Spirit?"
According to the Eastern Orthodox Church a christian receives the Holy Spirit during the sacrament of Chrismation. (Anointing)
The sacrament of Chrismation is immediately after the sacrament of ...
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Was salvation originally meant for the Jews according to the parable of the wedding banquet?
The Mosaic covenant was a representation of two eternal covenants, the covenant of works and the covenant of promise.
These covenants were first given to the Jews but had always been destined for both ...
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Was salvation originally meant for the Jews according to the parable of the wedding banquet?
What's interesting about this parable is that the bride is not clearly revealed, yet she is in Revelation.
The king (God the Father) has set a marriage banquet for his son (Jesus Christ). The king ...
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Was salvation originally meant for the Jews according to the parable of the wedding banquet?
The parable of the wedding banquet never mentions salvation (from anything). Nor does it mention the Jews or any other nation.
The next account pointed to - Matthew 15:21-28 - certainly does flag up ...
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