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Oh wow! I’m at a loss for words here. Times like this shows us how helpless we are. Our prayers are with her and the whole family.

I keep telling you I am bowing out of this, yet you continue to goad me. Here is my final response. We see that the Jews were not to be the only ppl of God, in either/both covenants. God had entrusted the Jews with the word of God [Romans 3:2] to take it to the surrounding nations. "Also the...

The bible (not I) says faith comes from the word. I didn't write it. Again, I need to bow out as I said I was. Adieu. I am not a hardline restrictivist as you say. Faith comes from hearing the word, not being zapped in a remote place where none has ever heard even one word of God.

Your complaint is not against me but God and His word. I'm bowing out as I've rowed this creek before and the water got rather choppy. Adieu.

But what does it say? “The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart”⁠—that is, the word of faith which we are preaching, that if you confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved; for with the heart a person...

By hearing the word of God, per Romans 10:17.

How so? Without the gospel, none can be saved. Faith comes from hearing (and also reading, imo) the word of God. The word of God is central to salvation.

Ah, but faith comes from what?

Care to expand on this?

Its not what I believe but what the bible says. Yes, those who do not know Christ via the gospel cannot and will not be saved.

Cannot reason with the unreasonable....

Which means we have been lax in our duty to spread the good news to every person.