Re: What You Protestants Don\'t Seem to Get
Well I think you forgot some BIG STUFF that isn't down straight, i.e. agreed upon by all Christian denominations:
- Does man truly have free will or doesn't he?
- Are some men predestined to perdition without ever having had a minimanl opportunity for salvation?
- Can non-believers sincerely not believe (whether they ever heard it or not) in the gospel and yet be saved?
- and the BIGGEST: what is necessary to be saved?
And there is a difference between the Holy Spirit guiding an individual person in applying scripture to his own life's situation, and guiding or not one denomination in having a 100% correct interpretation.
My points above, about scriptural interpretation and BIG STUFF that is disagreed upon by various denominations, shows in fact what I said earlier that when you ask a non-believer to accept the gospel on faith, i.e. without 100% evidence, then you are also asking that non-believer to accept an interpretation of that gospel that you acknowlege also to be less than 100% sure, unless you maintain that precisely one denomination is 100% correct in its interpretation.
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