Ronald David Bruno
Well-Known Member
You don't have to, Jesus is looking down on them. Sorry that's little insensitive.I can't look down on someone because of that, they are victims of their own culture.
Actually this is a good point you made, "they are victims". We think that if we were born with Buddhists, Hindu or Muslim parents, we'd follow their lead, be taught that way and accept it as truth. We'd think, "Our parents love us and they wouldn't lead us astray". Additionally, the majority of society around you accepts and practices the same religion and supports it. They are a product of their own false religion/culture. The entire Gentile world for thousands of years were fallen, lost souls generating more lost souls until Christ. Then He sent out the truth about God, His purpose in life, who we are to correct thise errors. And it has been working quite well spreading throughout the world. Even in predominently Muslims nations, we see 5-10% Christians. In China and India, Christianity has spread to over 100 million in each country. Christians are now about 1/3 of the entire population of the world. Still, that leaves many lost. It doesn't seem like there could travel been ay other way. This was God's plan and He does "elect" His flock of sheep.
And the gate is narrow, wide is the path to destruction. Some of those so called victims have seen the LIGHT. They were chosen among many and the rest, lost, reprobate. It doesn't seem fair, but it was His plan to save some. He dies not desire that any would have lost, but death was necessary for us to know and appreciate what life is, physical and eternal. Evil was necessary, for us to to know good.
By now, the GOSPEL has been spread to every nation and tribe. They have all heard of Christ, except the young ones whose parents have not told them.
God has given eternal life to those He has chosen. But listen, can these numbers change quickly? Can a person who has followed a false religion or atheism for their entire life, change in the last moments or days leading up to their death? Yes. Both my parents did just that. My Dad was an atheist and my mom followed a smorgasbord of beliefs until just days before she died, then suddenly she started believing and singing about Jesus. "Jesus loves me ... He has been there all along ... has His hand in my shoulder..." I was shocked! Forbthirty years I chiseled away at her false beliefs and preached the gospelbm to her with apparently no effect. My Dad's eyes were opened a couple years before his death.
So, these apparent reprobates may see the LIGHT before it is too late. If they haven't taken the mark of the Beast, and Jesus shows up ... and every eye can see Him ... won't that change minds, quickly?
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