To: Theresa
Total disagreement. No man comes to the father except throught the son. What you have posted implies that Muslims who worship Allah are going to heaven just because they are listening to their consciences. You could use the same arguments for cults. Sometimes, people become debased or degenerate and so their consciences are no longer attuned. But in their OWN mind, they think they are on track. As the Scriptures say, "There is a way which seems right to a man, but in the end, it leads to death." Maybe some of you good ol folk can give the scripture reference as it's slipped my mind. Amen
14 posted on
01/02/2002 2:12:49 PM PST by
bookwurm
To: bookwurm
What you have posted implies that Muslims who worship Allah are going to heaven just because they are listening to their consciences. Roman Catholics believe devout Muslims are saved.
To: bookwurm
Maybe some of you good ol folk can give the scripture reference as it's slipped my mind. AmenProverbs 14:12 "There is a way which seemeth right unto man, but the end thereof are the ways of death."
How about 2 Timothy 4:3,4 " For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers having itching ears; And they shall turn away from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables."
To: bookwurm
Can you explain why Paul wrote Romans 2:14-16? Is that not for the ones who have not heard the Gospel? Does not Paul say "for when Gentiles who do not have the Law do instinctively the things of the Law, these, not having the Law are a law to themselves, in that they show the work of the Law written in their hearts, their conscience bearing witness and their thoughts alternately accusing or else defending them, on the day when according to my gospel, God will judge the secrets of men through Christ Jesus."
To: bookwurm
Sometimes, people become debased or degenerate and so their consciences are no longer attuned. But in their OWN mind, they think they are on track.I disagree. One of the fundamental tenets of the Christian faith as defined by scripture is that we are totally depraved, that is that we (all humans) are degenerate from our birth, it is the work of the Holy Spirit to regenerate us, we don't become degenerate, we become regenerate. There is no "sometimes" about it.
99 posted on
01/03/2002 6:17:37 AM PST by
P8riot
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