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From: dnelson@joevax.UUCP (Dorothy Nelson)
Newsgroups: net.religion.christian,talk.religion.misc
Subject: Re: Salvation questions
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Date: Thu, 25-Sep-86 10:50:43 EDT
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Posted: Thu Sep 25 10:50:43 1986
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In article <> pete@octopus.UUCP (Pete Holzmann) writes:
>In article <2691@burdvax.UUCP> devonst@burdvax.UUCP (Tom Albrecht) writes:
>>I hate to get sidetracked from the issue at hand because it is very
>>important, but, when you say that Jesus made up for all sin, for all time,
>>for all people, what exactly do you mean?  If Jesus paid for everyone's sin
>>does that mean that everyone will go to heaven?  If not, on what basis does
>>God send people to hell?  Why did Jesus have to die for the sins of someone
>>who doesn't/won't believe in Him?
>
>Jesus is literally God's gift to humanity. People go to hell because they do
>not accept that gift.
What if they never have the chance to accept that gift?

Do tribes or cultures who never hear of the Jesus solution also roast?
A petty god, this would be, to so punish someone with the bad luck to be
born in a certain part of the world.
Nope.  I get it.  The Catholic solution.  They go to purgatory.  Or limbo.
Right.

I'm not trying to be sarcastic.  But this is something that has always 
bothered me.
>-- 

		--cosmique muffin (dorothy)