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Porphyry was a pagan critic of Christianity. His “foolishness” is the “foolishness” of an unbeliever in the early days of the way and is as relevant in our days as it was through all the centuries preceding it. It will be just as relevant until the Messiah returns. We may think of Porphyry...

No. That isn’t the idea. * Another thread driven into a ditch. *

“I am trying to change evangelical thinking on this subject” (Clark H. Pinnock, A Wideness in God’s Mercy, p. 15) Should he have tried? Should evangelical thinking on this subject change? Will it change?

The OP question is the question asked by a pagan in the 3rd century. The passage in Romans is what I was waiting for someone to mention and then apply to the case of the unevangelized. That’s what Pinnock is getting at in his book. That’s what I’d like my readers to think about and discuss...

This thread concerns the wideness (or narrowness) of God’s mercy in relation to the unevangelized. (The subject of Pinnock’s book.)

Pinnock addresses it in his book. I’m glad you’re planning on reading it. I found it challenging when I was a student. I find it challenging now. I believe there is a wideness in God’s mercy. How wide? That’s where it becomes difficult for us. Universalism goes too. Online discussion forums...

God is going to destroy those who never heard of Jesus but act righteously?

Why? She lived her life as well as, if not better than, the average Christian.

I’m talking about Pinnock’s suggestion.

God was at work even in ancient pagan religions?

Can we extend that idea back to the hypothetical little old lady from Fiji who lived 10,000 years ago, never met a disciple of Jesus, but treated her fellow pagan neighbors as if she had?

“The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full. - John 10:10 These words from Jesus may be very familiar to you. After all, we have an adversary - Satan. Have you ever stopped to ask why does God allow Satan to do this? Hidden...

What do you solidly think man evolved from?

1957.

* Wait. What? *

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-14947429/First-words-Moses-inscribed-Egyptian-prove-Bible-true.html

* Intro and closing to my favorite television program when I was a young boy. I woke up this morning with the theme song on my mind and it made me happy. *