Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!sdd.hp.com!mips!dimacs.rutgers.edu!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: jclark@sdcc6.ucsd.edu (John Clark) Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: Re: Non-Christians in Heaven (was: Original sin of infants) Message-ID: Date: 10 May 91 07:25:32 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Organization: University of California, San Diego Lines: 20 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu In article lang@rex.cs.tulane.edu (Raymond Lang) writes: + +Do you really think a "technicality" is necessary? I went to Catholic +schools through my undergraduate degree, and was always taught that a +person had only to follow the lights that were available to him (or her) +in order to find salvation. Frankly, I expect to meet up with more than This is the standard 'Grandfather' clause. This reasoning was developed to allow such luminaries as Plato, Socrates, and other righteous pagans in, and their learning taught. But the legalistic of group might what to debate what constitutes "following the lights that are available", and then ponder why proselytize at all. Since if some will be save by following the available lights, why introduce another which the person may fail to follow. -- John Clark jclark@ucsd.edu