A few days ago Charles introduced a book written by Rachel Evans and in general said that she was doing fundamentalist christians much harm and since the picture he posted showed a highly intelligent looking face and a graduate of Bryan College; he perked my attention.
I found the book on Amazon for only $1.70 + shp and so it has arrived. It’s true that Rachel asks some tough questions but it’s questions that pentecostals should have been asking all along. On pg.114 she struggles with the worlds eternal destiny, asking is it just ” luck of the draw ” depending on where and when you were born that determines whether you go to heaven or hell.?( Now don’t go giving all the old stock answers, for she had worked her way through all of them. )
Several years ago I had to deal with that issue when I was reading about a missionary in S.A. who had a flat tire and it took so long to get it fixed that he couldn’t preach that night at a mission church. The writer asked ; will people go to hell because of his flat tire? Will people go to hell just because they were born in a muslim country or in the jungles of the Amazon?
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Be careful about asking questions. I was always told that I was being rebellious whenever I asked questions and was even accused of being heretical when preaching about the grace of God.
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Now that I am old I am less cautious.
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I stand firmly behind what I said in spite of your incorrect representation of what I said.
“”Rachel Held Evans has had a great impact upon the Church of God’s liberal feminism and anti-Trump hatred.””
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A wiser man than I once said. If ignorance or not hearing would get you to heaven then it would be better to never go and tell them because some won’t receive the gospel. That’s what makes the great commission GREAT.
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I believe that Rachel is saying a person who doesn’t believe does so because they don’t have the opportunity to believe. A person who has an opportunity to believe and doesn’t believe is certainly hell bound.
Yes there are persons who don’t have opportunity nor capacity to believe.
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