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The world becomes Christian through the simple Holy Spirit blessed gospel message.

The Lord Jesus said at the end of Matthew’s gospel that He right now has been given ALL authority both in Heaven and here on earth and then He said THEREFORE go and make disciples of ALL nations teaching them to obey all that I have commanded you.

So?

So its all very simple!

We keep on doing that on and on and on until eventually the entire world has become Christian.

The one and ONLY way this is accomplished is through the simple Holy Spirit blessed gospel preaching.

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JAG

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Thanks for the AMEN!

God bless.

JAG

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I agree with you. I am a Calvinist. Yes we are chosen.
Eph.1:4

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JAG

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Thanks for your contribution.

God bless.

JAG

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Amen.

JAG

Thanks.

JAG

That’s because you are not happy now. And you incorrectly assume that life with the Lord Jesus in Heaven will be about the same as your unhappy life now. But that isn’t true, friend.

Here is your portal to a new and happy life:

“Dear Lord Jesus, I know that I am a sinner, and I ask for Your forgiveness. I believe You died for my sins and rose from the dead. I turn from my sins and invite You to come into my heart and life. I want to trust and follow You as my Lord and Savior. In Your Name. Amen.”

Pray the above prayer from a sincere heart and you will, henceforth, be happy and you will LOVE living life.

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JAG

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* Thanks.

* Re it being understood: You nailed it.

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JAG

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Many thanks.

God bless.

JAG

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I truly understand how you feel and I am with you 100% in spirit — however many Christians are NOT willing to live with the following:

ARE YOU?

Supplement to the article:

What about those in non-Christian lands in say 1600 A.D. who died
having never heard a single world of the gospel message? Is God
good and just to abandon such persons to Gehenna? And does He
actually do that?

It is important to find a reasonable solution to the problems raised
by these three questions because the notion that God consigns to Gehenna
for all eternity all people (past, present, and future) who lived and died
without ever hearing the gospel, characterizes God as unreasonable,
mean-spirited and cruel (which He most certainly is not).

Many who hold the view that God does do exactly that, have not paused
to seriously consider what they so readily believe about the character of
God.

Akua Adisa was born in 1600 A.D. in Africa and he lived to an old age and
died without ever hearing a single word of the gospel.

Are you going to proclaim that God will consign Akua to sternal Hell and
at the same time tell everybody that “God is love?”

Remember, on the traditional view of Hell, when Akua has suffered in agony
in Hell for 999 trillion (to the power of 500) years, he is no nearer to the end
than when he first entered Hell. It is not possible to reconcile such as this
with 1 John 4:8 “God is love.”

Thought Experiment:
How long is an Eternity of agony in Hell? Let us say a sparrow is magically
assigned the task of cutting the Earth in half and the sparrow is to fly by
the Earth every 100 years and brush one of its wings against the ground
surface of the Earth. How many years would it take the sparrow to cut the
Earth in half? For argument’s sake let us say it took in years 999 trillion to
the power of 999 trillion. So? So Akua Adisa, after being in agony in
Hell for as long as it took that sparrow to cut the Earth in half, would be no
closer to the end of his agony than when he first entered Hell.

Such as this is not possible to reconcile with 1 John 4:8 “God is love”
or with the general character of God as presented in the Bible.

We need a solution to this problem and a good start in finding one is God’s
Middle Knowledge as presented in this article.

JAG

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Supplement to the article:

What about those in non-Christian lands in say 1600 A.D. who died
having never heard a single world of the gospel message? Is God
good and just to abandon such persons to Gehenna? And does He
actually do that?

It is important to find a reasonable solution to the problems raised
by these three questions because the notion that God consigns to Gehenna
for all eternity all people (past, present, and future) who lived and died
without ever hearing the gospel, characterizes God as unreasonable,
mean-spirited and cruel (which He most certainly is not).

Many who hold the view that God does do exactly that, have not paused
to seriously consider what they so readily believe about the character of
God.

Akua Adisa was born in 1600 A.D. in Africa and he lived to an old age and
died without ever hearing a single word of the gospel.

Are you going to proclaim that God will consign Akua to sternal Hell and
at the same time tell everybody that “God is love?”

Remember, on the traditional view of Hell, when Akua has suffered in agony
in Hell for 999 trillion (to the power of 500) years, he is no nearer to the end
than when he first entered Hell. It is not possible to reconcile such as this
with 1 John 4:8 “God is love.”

Thought Experiment:
How long is an Eternity of agony in Hell? Let us say a sparrow is magically
assigned the task of cutting the Earth in half and the sparrow is to fly by
the Earth every 100 years and brush one of its wings against the ground
surface of the Earth. How many years would it take the sparrow to cut the
Earth in half? For argument’s sake let us say it took in years 999 trillion to
the power of 999 trillion. So? So Akua Adisa, after being in agony in
Hell for as long as it took that sparrow to cut the Earth in half, would be no
closer to the end of his agony than when he first entered Hell.

Such as this is not possible to reconcile with 1 John 4:8 “God is love”
or with the general character of God as presented in the Bible.

We need a solution to this problem and a good start in finding one is God’s
Middle Knowledge as presented in this article.

JAG

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Your view ends up, history wide worldwide, with tens of billions of humans that will scream in agony for all eternity in Hell.

Question: How do you reconcile that with “God is love’?

My friend there has to be a way for us to remain orthodox and at the same time find a solution to this problem.

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JAG

But we do not have to conclude from Romans that they are going to be sent to Hell.

See my PS down below:

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The problem, for the Bible believer, regarding the question: “Can people who have never heard the gospel be saved?” is not going to go away.

The traditional view is that God puts then into eternal Hell.

But that does not harmonize with “God is love.”

Or with common sense.

So?

So we have to find a solution to this problem and the OP is a good place to start.

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JAG

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PS

Is it not reasonable to believe that the person who responds favorably

to his limited knowledge of God revealed to him in natural law and
conscience in the absence of the gospel in his part of the world

and in his time in history, would also respond favorably to the gospel

preached in our world today?

My view: Yes it is reasonable to believe that.

Nobody is going to do any research based on what you said in your post.

And the problem, for the Bible believer, regarding the question: “Can people who have never heard the gospel be saved?” is not going to go away.

The traditional view is that God puts then into eternal Hell.

But that does not harmonize with “God is love.”

Or with common sense.

So?

So we have to find a solution to this problem and the OP is a good place to start.

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JAG

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PS

Is it not reasonable to believe that the person who responds favorably

to his limited knowledge of God revealed to him in natural law and
conscience in the absence of the gospel in his part of the world

and in his time in history, would also respond favorably to the gospel

preached in our world today?

My view: Yes it is reasonable to believe that.

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Free Will.

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JAG

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(I’m not sure I get your point) ?

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The OP does not say what you assume it says.

I do not hold the position that you incorrectly assume I hold.

You either did not read the OP, or you are not interested in doing the mental work required to understand what the OP actually says.

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JAG

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The OP does not say what you assume it says.

I do not hold the position that you incorrectly assume I hold.

You either did not read the OP, or you are not interested in doing the mental work required to understand what the OP actually says.

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JAG

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