how have been, are and will Hindus, Muslims, Chinese, Buddhists and other non Christians be saved according to Christ = they will be born again as little Christian children for in my FATHER'S HOUSE ARE MANY MANSIONS to accommodate them - just as in our creation so also in our salvation we have no choice or input - twinc
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You may have to expound on that for clarification.
Are you talking about what Billy Graham said about how others can be saved without believing in Jesus Christ? If so, Billy Graham was in error when he had said that. Just as he was in error to give an altar call for believers by the question "If you are not sure you are saved, come forward and make a commitment to follow Christ." What happened to the call of the gospel before that altar call when he had said "all those who call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved."?
What Billy Graham should have said was at that altar call, "If you are not sure you are saved, if you had called upon the name of the Lord, believe you are saved."
So Billy Graham did a flip flop on the gospel by that altar call and he is making a compromise with world's religions by believing that although they do not believe in Christ, they believe in something about God, that they would be saved. Even Pope John had said at one time that unbelievers that lives just lives can be saved.
That is what happens when the world speaks well of people like that; so did they of the false prophets.
Luke 6:26 Woe unto you, when all men shall speak well of you! for so did their fathers to the false prophets.
So if you are not referring to that.... you may need to expound a little more with clarification.
Big picture: everyone believes salvation comes through faith in Christ.
Now zooming in more to salvation for people who have never heard of Christ or not accepted Him: this you will have a variety of opinions on in Christendom and a lot of "we don't know"s. Personally, it is my belief that each person will have the opportunity to hear & accept Christ, whether it comes in this mortal life or the hereafter. But again, that's something you'll get a variety of opinions on.
we cannot and must not accept a variety of opinions but only one and He clearly said 'non Christians must be born again as little Christian children who would simply simply believe imho - twinc
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The Bible does NOT teach Universalism. No matter what a person's religion is, they must turn to Christ for salvation. Otherwise there are no mansions for them in Heaven. And people do have a choice, otherwise God would not command all men everywhere to repent.
here we go again all mixed up and messed up trying to mix up and mess up others - I think Jesus referred it to the blind leading the blind - lets thank and rejoice and praise God that we do not have choice which would mean extinction and hell - we did not choose to be created or saved praise the Lord - twinc
Buddha came to his understanding that there is no God because he did not know how to have a conversation. Previously, he went to a temple to worship the one true God that his for "father", Abraham, had taught his "second" family, after Sarah had died, before he sent them away towards the east many years previously. Buddha, was objecting to a Persian King sending an image of himself to every place of worship in his empire to be worshipped. In the Book of Esther we are told that the Persian Empire had dominion over India. Many of the God's worshipped within the Hindu religion have the have features that are Persian. Out of this one act of a Persian king to have his image worshipped within his empire, both the Hindu and Buddha religions were born. With the introduction of idol worship in India, the original teaching/instruction of Abraham's second family who had moved as far as India that there was only one God to worship, the approximate 1400 years of worship in India of a single God quickly faded as more and more idols of god became the norm in India and the worship of many gods became the accepted practice within the Hindu religion.
After spending many years visiting a Hindu Kingdom it is easy to discern many Jewish practices within the observable Hindu religious practices. At Big River Bend there is a cable car lift up to a sacred temple on top of a mountain, where a wave sacrifice is performed with a young Goat which is taken up to the temple in a special attached bin on the cable. After the wave sacrifice, the young goat is then cooked and eaten by the family after the family has return from the Temple.
Other Hindus worship their trucks and they have put tassels on their truck to denote the extent of their idol god, which is the truck.
It is common to see rock pillars anointed with red powder/blood and worship regularly occurs at this rock pillar.
As Christians, we should carefully examine out "religious practices," to see if we have "moved away" from what God requires of us in our worship of Him.
Shalom
After spending many years visiting a Hindu Kingdom it is easy to discern many Jewish practices within the observable Hindu religious practices. At Big River Bend there is a cable car lift up to a sacred temple on top of a mountain, where a wave sacrifice is performed with a young Goat which is taken up to the temple in a special attached bin on the cable. After the wave sacrifice, the young goat is then cooked and eaten by the family after the family has return from the Temple.
Other Hindus worship their trucks and they have put tassels on their truck to denote the extent of their idol god, which is the truck.
It is common to see rock pillars anointed with red powder/blood and worship regularly occurs at this rock pillar.
As Christians, we should carefully examine out "religious practices," to see if we have "moved away" from what God requires of us in our worship of Him.
Shalom
Your OPs seem to indicate that you are mixed up and messed up. I am simply bringing biblical clarity to you, whether you accept it or not.
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