I guess it just goes to prove that ultimately salvation comes down to faith and not ‘seeing’ or something else physical.
“I guess it just goes to prove that ultimately salvation comes down to faith and not ‘seeing’ or something else physical.”
Could be, or it could be that God just didn’t want certain people, who He knew would not be faithful to the end, to get mixed up in the beginning of His church. Enough of them would creep in soon enough, but that might have been too destructive if it happened then.