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To: IMRight
What about the pre-NT Jews? They believed in Jesus. Moses knew Jesus as well as King David. They were not unaware of who Jesus was. But lets play your game for the time being. We have Jesus now. Are you saying a pygmie who has never heard of or encountered Jesus can still be saved?

JM
3,644 posted on 04/12/2004 11:26:27 AM PDT by JohnnyM
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To: JohnnyM
What about the pre-NT Jews? They believed in Jesus. Moses knew Jesus as well as King David.

Baloney. That's circular reasoning to fulfill a narrow interpretation of scripture. David knew a messiah was coming, he didn't know His name or that he had to place his faith in a personal relationship with Jesus.

Are you saying a pygmie who has never heard of or encountered Jesus can still be saved?

That isn't exactly what I'm saying (I don't know one way or the other). I'm saying that, hypothetically, if he WAS saved... it would still be "through Jesus". Thus the verse "no man comes to the Father" does not imply that a particular formula for accepting Christ is the only way. YOU appear to have set the bar rather low with all of the other people who "believed in Jesus" though they would have been shocked to hear that they did.

3,647 posted on 04/12/2004 11:31:51 AM PDT by IMRight
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