Does Christian Belief Include The View That All Good People Will Be Saved? Flashcards
Many struggle with the idea that well-meaning, kind, honest people who aren’t Christians’ll be denied ?
Salvation.
In the ? ?, early Christians can be seen debating “faith and works”. Some passages of the Bible suggest that Christian faith is necessary and sufficient for salvation: “whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life” (? 3:16-18). These passages can be used to make the claim that the Bible supports Christian exclusivism.
New Testament.
John.
Being “good” can’t bring a person to salvation; ? freely offered to those who accept Christ explicitly and accept the grace of God, who forgives the sins of all who have Christian faith.
Salvation’s.
Other passages of the Bible emphasise the need for people to do the right things in order to be saved regardless of faith. The Parable of the ? and the ?, in Matthew’s Gospel, shows the Son of Man judging people, not on the basis of their faith but on their actions and treatment of the poor, sick, strangers and those in prison.
Sheep.
Goats.
“You see that a person is considered righteous by what they do and not by faith alone” (? 2:14-24). The message seems to be that faith’s incomplete without the moral actions it inspires. This passage wouldn’t support a ? position, but could be used to support Christian inclusivism.
James.
Pluralist.
Inclusivists and pluralists often argue that it’d be unjust of God to condemn the morally good ?-?, but this carries assumptions that there’s the same moral code inside Christianity as there’s outside of it. Different people have different ideas about morality and what constitutes a “good person”. If non-Christians have the same moral code as Christians, so that they could be living a “Christian” life in spite of lacking explicit Christian beliefs, this suggests that acceptance of the central messages of Christianity doesn’t make much difference to a person’s ? ?
Non-Christian.
Moral behaviour.
