Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!apple!sun-barr!rutgers!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: ferwerda@clt.enet.dec.com (Paul Ferwerda) Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: Re: Non-Christians in Heaven (was: Original sin of infants) Message-ID: Date: 13 May 91 05:40:28 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation, Nashua, New Hampshire Lines: 26 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu |> Path: nntpd.lkg.dec.com!news.crl.dec.com!deccrl!decwrl!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!swrinde!mips!dimacs.rutgers.edu!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian |> |> Then it's _not_ a waste for a good Jew or Moslem to be condemned to Hell? |> |> Ray |> lang@rex.cs.tulane.edu |> Romans 3:23 says "All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, they are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption which is in Christ Jesus", so no one is good in the sense that their goodness is efficacious towards salvation, and all (including saved Christians) deserve being condemned to Hell. -- --- Paul EASYNET=> loptsn::ferwerda Gordon UUCP=> decwrl!clt.enet.dec.com!ferwerda Loptson DARPA Internet=> ferwerda%clt.enet.dec.com Ferwerda Tel (603) 881 2221