Posted on 01/12/2012 2:53:14 PM PST by NYer
No.
The gift is free. But you have to ACCEPT it. It is not forced on you.
Marriage is instrument of salvation for society, declares Benedict XVI
Catholic and Protestant "Similarities" on Faith, Faith Alone, Salvation...
Radio Replies Second Volume - Salvation of the Soul
Catholic Biblical Apologetics: Salvation: A Biblical Portrait
Catholic Biblical Apologetics: Salvation: "Being Saved"
Catholic Biblical Apologetics: The Catholic Response to "Are You Saved?"
Catholic Biblical Apologetics: The Knowledge of Salvation
A note from Roy Schoeman... (author of 'Salvation is from the Jews')
Radio Replies First Volume - Grace and salvation
Radio Replies First Volume - "Outside the Church no salvation"
Salvation - Are You Saved?
No Salvation Outside the Church
Prayer the Great Means of Salvation: Ch.1: The Necessity of Prayer, Sect. 3 Invocation of the Saints
Prayer the Great Means of Salvation: Chapter 1: The Necessity of Prayer, Section 2
Prayer: The Great Means of Salvation and of Perfection Ch. 1: The Necessity of Prayer, Section 1
What does the Catholic Church mean by the phrase, "Outside the Church there is no salvation"
Christian, I Presume? (Salvation) [Ecumenical]
Rock Solid: The Salvation History of the Catholic Church [Ecumenical]
Who Can Be Saved?
Grace, Faith, and Works
Getting in Touch With Reality (good character and behavior as a ticket to Heaven)
My Personal Savior
The Early Church Fathers on Salvation Outside the Church [Catholic/Orthodox Caucus]
Extra ecclesiam - Outside the Church there is no salvation.M.a
Is Faith Necessary for Salvation? (Part 2)
Good Will Equals Salvation? (Did the pope say non christians could be saved - part 1)
The Experience of the Salvation of Christ Today
Nonbelievers Too Can Be Saved, Says Pope
Worthy Is the Lamb?
Limbo and the Hope of Salvation
What of those Gentiles who lived before Christ died on the cross are those souls all foresaken with no chance of redemption?
Christ died for all. Receiving this free gift of salvation, it’s open to everyone. Not everyone will choose to receive the free gift, however.
Salvation is available to all, but not all are open to receiving salvation.
Everyone can be Save but not all will be.
Repent!
Instead, some reveal a flippant "sucks to be them" and "they're just getting what they deserve" callous attitude. Anyone having such an attitude would do well to examine their own Faith, for Jesus himself wept at the sight of Jerusalem, knowing the coming destruction of the city - and, yes, all the wicked and rebellious people living therein. We also read: "God is not willing that any should perish, but desires all to come to repentance."
Is this our attitude? Or are we gloating that we are on the "right side," and all those sinners are only getting what's coming to them. We refuse to face the fact that we are just as deserving of hell as anyone else, and it is only by the Grace of God that He has had mercy upon us.
Let our attitude be that of our Heavenly Father: "As surely as I live, declares the Sovereign LORD, I take no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but rather that they turn from their ways and live. Turn! Turn from your evil ways! Why will you die, people of Israel?" (Ezekiel 33:11)
Reliance on these verses as proof texts for universalism has been thouroughly refuted for some time. Dr. James White recently went over it in a lecture which can be downloaded at sermonaudio.com
As a New Year’s resolution, I have decided to answer every stupid question posed in headlines that I see on FR; usually without bothering to read the article because there is no need.
So: No, next question.
He cast out the devil/angels in heaven, so I feel that he will cast out truly evil persons that do not love God.
I saw a three panel painting in France with the middle panel missing, but one panel was a glorious full of light looking upward towards heaven with a few people, while the other was very dark with many people tumbling downwards towards a fire (very dark, difficult and troubling to absorb).
I also had a friend that had a near death experience describe a similar situation where few were traveling upwards and many were going down (he described as raining cats and dogs).
Jesus has shown us the way with His Love for us, we need to Love Him back. He has suffered so much for us, and I can't imagine the hurt that he continues to suffer when we sin and reject HIs Love.
If we would only learn to accept and really Love GOD as he wants, we would be so much happier on earth and moreso in Heaven.
I just wish I could do more in letting others know (and convincing them) how much God loves them.
Deuteronomy 4:19 & Malachi 1:11.
Two would not say anything about Christ until lately. One would go crazy with hate if I mentioned Jesus. I would pray silently for him. I agreed i would not talk much about it in front of him. Slowly by silent prayers.
Now I have been praying for him openly. He has things happen now( coincide miracles) He sees nothing but Jesus in the matter. Always pray! God will move mountains. .
Praise Jesus!!
According to some the prechristian good are damned. I can’t find any direct statement to that effect. However, there are statements made by Christ that imply such an inference could rationally be made: i.e. “no man comes to the Father except through me..”
Amen. May God bless you for your compassion for the lost, and for having a heart like our Heavenly Father, who desires that none should perish.
Amen! back at You! Bro!
If Hell is a lie, who originated that lie?
God hates all who do iniquity (Psalm 5:5).
God is a righteous judge, and a God who is angry with the wicked everyday (Psalm 7:11).
We must be careful not to dictate to God that He must love everyone, and that He must love everyone the same. "Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated (Malachi 1:2-3; Romans 9:13). So then, He has mercy on whom He desires,and He hardens whom He desires" (Romans 9:18).
Consider how Proverbs 6:16-19 refutes the popular idea that God hates the sin, but loves the sinner. The text is a minute description of the person who does these things. And verse 19 leaves no doubt that God hates the person: "A false witness who utter lies, and one who spreads strife among brothers." Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, not just make up for the sins they did.
If everyone eventually gets to Heaven then this makes Christ’s sacrifice of no effect.
Don’t see any problems there, actually.
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