I have two guide posts that drive my answer to this question... 2 Corinthians 4:3-4
3 But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost:
4 In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.
This drives me to share the gospel. I don't want the lost to be lost
Then John 10:16
16 And other sheep I have which are not of this fold; them also I must bring, and they will hear My voice; and there will be one flock and one shepherd.
This gives me the comfort that no matter my efforts, God has his own plan in his own way.
I am required to take the gospel he has given me to every place I can. To share his word as best I can in all the ways I can.
But it is God that saves. not me.
Techncally speaking, the other sheep were the gentiles.
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Re: Those who never heard about Jesus?
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Originally Posted by Ferd
...technically.... but then there are those stories like the Urshans that found Jesus Name baptism without help...
we knew nothing about them. I figure Gods ways are higher than mine.
I just just saying, do your best, let God do the rest.
Were the Urshans saved from among the Jews, or among the Gentiles?
Or are you intimating that they are a third element?
Were the Urshans saved from among the Jews, or among the Gentiles?
Or are you intimating that they are a third element?
im not intimating anything.... other than that God has his own way.
God has given me a precious gift in the Oneness Doctrine and in the Water Spirit Doctrine. in every case, and at all times, that is the message I share. That is all I know when asked "what must I do"...
i am compelled.... but I will never discount what God does where I cannot go...
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Re: Those who never heard about Jesus?
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Originally Posted by Ferd
im not intimating anything.... other than that God has his own way.
God has given me a precious gift in the Oneness Doctrine and in the Water Spirit Doctrine. in every case, and at all times, that is the message I share. That is all I know when asked "what must I do"...
i am compelled.... but I will never discount what God does where I cannot go...
Rom 6:3....Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death?
Rom 6:6....Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.
Rom 6:8-9....Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him: ..(9)....Knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more; death hath no more dominion over him.
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"Many Christians do not try to understand what was written in a verse in the Bible. Instead they approach the passage to prove what they already believe."
Rom 6:3....Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death?
Rom 6:6....Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.
Rom 6:8-9....Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him: ..(9)....Knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more; death hath no more dominion over him.
"Know ye not"? What do you mean, Paul? Know? You said if we think we KNOW anything, we really don't know anything at all. We cannot KNOW we were baptized into Jesus' death, because you said we cannot know anything, and it's worse if we think we do!
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