You should not be so smug. What if you had been born a Hindu? What if all your ancestors for centuries were Hindu and you loved them and respected them. What if the ties that bound you to them and to your land and culture were intertwined with Hinduism? Are you so smug as to think that just hearing the gospel once or twice could overcome all that conditioning?
Certainly, provided their heart is receptive and the Holy Spirit permits it. Don't sell the Lord short there. You would be smug to think that the Lord could not accomplish this.
It is not "smug" to believe that God can overcome any obstacles to belief in Jesus Christ, including Hinduism, Islam, or any other false religions.
The arm of the Lord is never too short to save those He has chosen as His own...
-penny
You should not be so smug. What if you had been born a Hindu? What if all your ancestors for centuries were Hindu and you loved them and respected them. What if the ties that bound you to them and to your land and culture were intertwined with Hinduism? Are you so smug as to think that just hearing the gospel once or twice could overcome all that conditioning?
Please see my post #12 and meditate on the words I have capitalized and bolded. "Invincible Ignorance" means something, and you have just given a good example of such. "May" also means something, it is not an assurance. God will ultimately be the judge of everyone's culpability (i.e. guilt) of how they responded to His Gospel. Those with a cultural conditioning or bias against Christ or against the Catholic Church may be excused.
SD
With the power of the Holy Spirit's quickening the person hearing the Word, yes ma'am!
"So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God."
--Romans 10:17
And early Christians converted because.... Sorry, but that was a senseless set of statements you just made.