Re NO SALVATION w/o CHRIST: MOUW SAYS IT's
"TOO SIMPLISTIC" Feb12, 07) “...There is no salvation apart from personal faith in Jesus Christ.” This is much too simplistic. Not that I want to make a case for Mahatma Gandhi as a Christian saint, or even as what the Jesuit theologian Karl Rahner called an “anonymous Christian.” Like my Southern Baptist friends, I am not a universalist and I do not want in any way to detract from the importance of having a personal faith in Jesus Christ. But unless I misjudge the character of the folks who say the kind of thing that this particular Baptist theologian is quoted as saying, they really don’t mean what they are saying. Surely they believe that children who die before they have made a personal decision to follow Jesus Christ–those..."
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INFREQUENTLY UPDATED (mostly for historical purposes): This is ALL about the CHRISTIAN FAITH, with daily news & other items mixed in ! We cannot ignore what's happening in the world around us:the good, the bad, & the ugly, but we CAN try to respond to it thru the LENS of FAITH ! I keep running the race of faith in the name of the Father-Son-&-Holy-Spirit ! Join me