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Originally Posted by Jason Badejo
Define few.
If we say that unless someone:
1)is baptized as an adult
2)in Jesus name
3)speaks in tongues
4)keeps dress standards(including uncut hair)
5)pay tithes
6)does not forsake the assembly
Leaves pretty much no one. If we say there are 10 million of them, that means 0.0013% of the worlds 7.2 billion population is saved (if my math is correct).
99.9987% damned to hell forever.
That'd make me feel defeated.
I don't see the "few" as those who fit into my own little box and agree with everything I think is important, but rather as all those believers across Christendom who have truly repented of their sins, trusted in Christ, and been regenerated by the Spirit. It's not the "visible" church which includes tares amongst the wheat, but the "invisible" church.
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So you feel the things I have bolded in the quote are all thats essential to enter the kingdom of God? If thats all there was do it it would not equal "few". I think 70% of Americans believe Jesus rose from the dead.
The shock is going to be not who we thought would not make it that did, rather who we thought would make it that did not.
That will equal "few".
Why does this make you feel defeated? If one is filled with the Spirit there is no reason they cannot do the will of God. I mean
THAT is the ultimate requirement for entering the Kingdom.
To me it is awful to think there are systems of Christian theology where they teach doing the will of God is not essential to salvation. Its like they are robbing people of their faith in Jesus....and if they dont shake it off and come to believe the truth there is certainly no hope for them.
Thats why Jesus said "few".
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