I agree with the Pope. If you know about the church but somehow you didn’t really understand, then you can be saved.
Therefore everybody is covered.
No, it doesn’t work that way at all. The Pope is 100% wrong. There would be no need for Christ in your “universal salvation” scenario.
>>I agree with the Pope. If you know about the church but somehow you didn’t really understand, then you can be saved. Therefore everybody is covered.
Everyone is covered (i.e. there are no “ethic” or “national” Christians), but not everyone is saved. Jesus died for the redemption of the world, but each person has to proclaim that he accepts Christ as his savior.
Otherwise, you are in the Law and will be judged according to the Law. Good luck atheists with that First Commandment.
There is a difference between “redemption” and “salvation”. Think collectively and individually. Everyone is redeemed but it’s up to the individual to be saved.
Exactly! All are saved, but you have to accept your salvation for it to have any effect on your life and after life.
You may want to read the Bible... That is not at all what the word of God says.
The word tells us that there are many people who are like dust in the wind, and they will die and not be remembered, like dry grass.
They will perish and be nothing. That is the truth.
Of course it is easier to give in to sin, and pretend that we don’t know better, and then use the loophole that everyone is saved anyway. So why bother?
If everyone is covered with a loop hole, then why did Jesus tells us to be perfect, to shed our sin and follow him, and to be examples so we can lead others?
How so many conveniently forget it is not automatic.
John, 14:6.
“Jesus said unto him, “I am that Way, and that Truth, and that Life. No man cometh unto the Father, but by me.”
1599 Geneva Bible
13 “Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it.