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At first glance, what also seems offensive? "If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple." (Luke 14:26)
Awesome!!!
John 14:6
"Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me."
Good point, as many, even some in Church, want to use the word "a" instead of "the!"
The Presiding Bishop of The Episcopal Church, Katherine Jefforts-Schori, was asked if Jesus was the only way of salvation. Her answer: 'I could never keep God in that small of a box'.
Look at the answer that James Dobson (Focus on the Family) gave on Larry King show:
CALLER: Hi, my question, Dr. Dobson, you mentioned early in the show that the people on September the 11th who died, who didn't have a personal relationship with Jesus Christ, you know, basically didn't go to heaven. Do you honestly believe that people of different faiths other than Christian, Muslim, Hindu, Jewish faiths, are those people when they die all going to hell?
DOBSON: I don't think you heard the second half of my answer, because I was attempting to explain that that would require me to put myself in judgment of everybody around the world. And if you did not conform to my notions, then you're damned. I don't know. So I'm thankful that I don't have to decide that. You know the...
KING: If you believe that heaven is a better place...
DOBSON: Yes.
KING: ... then those people on 9/11 are in a better place. The people saddened are the people left, right?
DOBSON: Yes, if they had a personal relationship with Jesus Christ, which is my theology. It's not enough just to be a good person and then die and go to heaven. There are some conditions and...
KING: So if they were Jewish, they're somewhere not in heaven or -- Muslim, they're not in heaven.
DOBSON: Well, as you know, I'm thankful that I don't have the responsibility to figure that out.
KING: But you believe it?
DOBSON: Well, I believe what the scripture says. And it tells us not to judge one another, leave that up to Him and I
Look at the answer that James Dobson (Focus on the Family) gave on Larry King show:
CALLER: Hi, my question, Dr. Dobson, you mentioned early in the show that the people on September the 11th who died, who didn't have a personal relationship with Jesus Christ, you know, basically didn't go to heaven. Do you honestly believe that people of different faiths other than Christian, Muslim, Hindu, Jewish faiths, are those people when they die all going to hell?
DOBSON: I don't think you heard the second half of my answer, because I was attempting to explain that that would require me to put myself in judgment of everybody around the world. And if you did not conform to my notions, then you're damned. I don't know. So I'm thankful that I don't have to decide that. You know the...
To be fair I don't think anyone has said that. We all affirm only believers are saved, and its not judging a person's salvation by saying those who don't adhere to salvation by grace alone through Christ alone are not saved.So, are all of you saying that you know who will be saved and who won't?
Those nations had the opportunity to turn from their false gods and didn't. While on the surface it looks extremely unloving, those who were of age deserved it, and those who were not were spared eternally not physically.The verses I find most offensive are the OT passages where God (apparently) commands the Israelites to commit genocide. I'm still trying to figure that one out...
From our vantage it might appear that way. From an eternal perspective its merciful.I still struggle with the picture of God Who commands the slaughter of babies and infants; how can we condemn the abortionist when we - seemingly on these verses - worship a God Who orders the same????