Featured Poll: “Many are saved having never heard the gospel”?

I much prefer that over the hellers claim that all who have not heard the gospel will go to hell.

 

You ever pondered Isaiah 54:1 and Galatians 4:27?

 

No more 'another gospel' than the claim that all who have not heard the gospel will go to hell..

 

Are you asking "is the belief “many are going to heaven having never heard the gospel” biblical"?

Apples and oranges [edit]. The Judaizers were the first heretics corrupting the gospel with law.

 

I think that to tell God whom He has to save may involve a wee bit of hubris. Better to believe what He says. "Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved." If people are really upset about this, off to Afghanistan with them to preach the Gospel there.
In fact, the Gospel is reaching all sorts of previously unreached groups through radio broadcasts or the internet, but not too much is said about it for reasons of safety.

 

Is it biblical that saved [sozo] means going to heaven?

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Is it biblical that saved [sozo] means saved from hell?

 

God has chosen the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe.

 

K. No prob. Show me some scripture that the gospel rescues one from hell. Show me some scripture that God's wrath and displeasure always results in burning in hell.

K. Gospel obedience saves lost sheep into the kingdom here in this temporal realm, NOT heaven above. If that's what you believe then you've made exactly the same mistake as the Jews:

39 Ye search the scriptures, because ye think that in them ye have eternal life; and these are they which bear witness of me; Jn 5

The gospel neither abolishes death, nor does it impart life and immortality, it tells about it:

10 but hath now been manifested by the appearing of our Saviour Christ Jesus, who abolished death, and brought life and immortality to light through the gospel, 2 Tim 1

 

no its heresy

 

You actually amaze me at times, actually most calvinists do that. Your the ones that trumpet that God is sovereign then turn around and say well only so much. He is not allowed to do anything that does not fit with my theology. So much for your sovereign god.

The real sovereign God that I worship can and does do as He pleases. He does not need my permission to save those that call out to Him, which your theology claims for itself.

So according to your theology, no one that we know of in the OT was saved because they never had that real gospel message given to them. Perhaps you should read Heb 11 without the blinders. I am sure that Abel, Enoch, Noah, Abraham and lets not forget David, Isaiah, Ezekiel or any of the other prophets.
Heb 11:13 All these died in faith, without receiving the promises, but having seen them and having welcomed them from a distance, and having confessed that they were strangers and exiles on the earth.

The fact you will not even take the time to check the stories of those from closed countries for yourself just shows how closed minded you are. For you it seems to be calvinism or nothing. The bible has to fit into your theology. Sad really really sad.

What I have said is not another gospel it is just letting God be sovereign which seems to something that you have a real problem with. That is your problem not mine.

I do agree with Martin when he said "I think that to tell God whom He has to save may involve a wee bit of hubris." How dare you tell God He can not save those that trust in Him. And how dare you tell Him He can only draw people to Himself one way. Your arrogance is astounding.

Just let God be God.

 

Mark 10:14, ". . . But when Jesus saw it, he was much displeased, and said unto them, Allow the little children to come unto me, and forbid them not: for of such is the kingdom of God. . . ."