Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!sdd.hp.com!caen!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!lll-winken!iggy.GW.Vitalink.COM!widener!dsinc!bagate!rutgers!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: keinstr!keinstr!chaplin@uunet.uu.net (chaplin) Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: Re: One way to Heaven Message-ID: Date: 18 May 91 06:17:03 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Organization: Keithley Instruments, Cleveland, Ohio Lines: 33 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu In article x7mx@vax5.cit.cornell.edu writes: >I have not seen anything that explicitly states > >not follow Jesus (explicitly ie by name) ==> not saved > >My stand: I personally do not think it plausible that God would condemn >good-intentioned people who do not invoke Jesus' name (lower case "n" ie >the letters JESUS) but who follow his commandments nevertheless "Love one >another ... ". These are people who do not label themselves Christian. > >Chris Just a few passages which I feel *do* explicitly state that "not follow Jesus (explicitly ie by name) ==> not saved": Acts 4:10-12 - Be it known unto you all, and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom ye crucified, whom God raised from the dead, [even] by him doth this man stand here before you whole. This is the stone which was set at nought of you builders, which is become the head of the corner. Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved. 1 Timothy 2:5,6 - For [there is] one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus; who gave himself a ransom for all, ... Titus 3:5-7 - Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost; which he shed on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Saviour; that being justified by his grace, we should be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life. -- Roger Chaplin / Instruments Division Engineering | "Eschew obfuscation." chaplin@keinstr.uucp / CI$: 76307,3506 | - Jim Mazak