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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“But we have this treasure in jars of clay to show that this all-surpassing power is from God and not from us…”