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To: caww

The unpardonable sin is to deny the finished work of Christ ....some might do so for a time in their life and later come to accept it for themselves.....If they die in denial they are lost.

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I would disagree in that the work of Christ is not finished. His work that He performed while on the earth was finished when He gave up the Ghost but He is still striving with man to bring man unto Him so that man can have eternal life.

I know it is crazy but even after death I wonder if there are opportunities for man. While Christ was dead but before being Raised to immortality He preached to the dead. I have always wondered why He did that if there was not some opportunity for them to be saved. I have also wondered about the majority of mankind who have never heard of Christ, through no fault of their own they are damned to Hell forever? I don’t think we can believe in a just God and at the same time believe that because we were lucky enough to be in the minority that heard The Gospel and accepted it that we will be saved and they that didn’t hear it won’t.

Unless my spirit existed before earth and I did something wonderful to earn the opportunity of hearing The Gospel it doesn’t make sense and I do not believe that I am being rewarded for something I don’t remember doing. I don’t know the methodology but I do believe that there is a way for those who through no fault of their own who don’t know Jesus will have the opportunity to know and accept Him. This is a real problem in my view of Christianity one that no one seems to address. If God is no respecter of persons why would He give me something more than someone else?

I know of no sect other than Mormons who have an answer to this question but their answer requires you to be Mormon. Surely there is another answer.


12 posted on 09/02/2015 9:19:21 AM PDT by JAKraig (my religion is at least as good as yours)
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To: JAKraig

...”I know it is crazy but even after death I wonder if there are opportunities for man”....

It’s not crazy to think that...it’s ‘deadly’....

Not one word in the Bible - not even one - suggests that there will be a second chance after death for those who have willfully rejected Christ in this life and chosen to shut Him out of their lives.

In fact, the most serious mistake you could ever make would be to assume otherwise. Once this life is over, you will go into eternity - either to that place of eternal joy the Bible calls heaven, or that place of eternal sorrow and separation from God that the Bible calls hell. The Bible’s warning is clear:

“Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does NOT believe stands condemned already because he has not believed in the name of God’s one and only Son” (John 3:18).


14 posted on 09/02/2015 9:23:16 AM PDT by caww
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