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Christian Learning Center Forums Discussion Forum A college student approaches you and asks, “Why is Christianity so exclusive? If God wants all men to be saved, why wouldn’t he accept them no matter how they come to Him?” How would you answer this student? Be sure to emphasize Christianity’s true inclusiveness.

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  • A college student approaches you and asks, “Why is Christianity so exclusive? If God wants all men to be saved, why wouldn’t he accept them no matter how they come to Him?” How would you answer this student? Be sure to emphasize Christianity’s true inclusiveness.

    Posted by info on 02/02/2022 at 14:54
    Gabriel Aboderin replied 1 year, 6 months ago 3 Members · 3 Replies
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  • But God does accept all of humanity no matter what religion they have come from. Jesus stated in Matthew 25:31-46 that the only measure that he will use to see if a person is saved is if he loved his neighbor. Jesus did not say that only the Christians or the Baptized or people who go to church will be saved. An atheist or a Buddist that loves his neighbor will be saved, just like a Christian, as long as they love their neighbor, period!

    However, the Church of the Roman Empire manipulated Jesus’s teaching in order for them to gain power and control over the people. If Jesus’s words are heresy, it is not my problem but the Church of the Roman Empire!

  • Christianity exclusiveness should not be pushed to the point that it favors the Jewish exclusive tendency or Gnostics sense of intellectual exclusiveness. That said, its inclusiveness is unlike that of universalists who reason that God has saved everyone no matter the type of life they are living. The exclusiveness affirms that salvation is not the exclusive right of any race or group of people, but rather for whosoever will appropriate it by accepting Jesus as the mediator between him and God.
    The book of 1 Timothy 2:3-4 is an attestation to the above assertion. “God our savior, who “desires all’ men to be saved and come to the knowledge of the truth,” presupposes that all are in the earnest wish of God to be saved. By “desires all,’ there is no other better statement of inclusivity of Christian faith than this. In his plan, God “desires all” because he is the only God and creator. At creation, he created humanity/human race, which cut across racial, ethnic and course biases. Because man is created a moral agent, he has a role in his covenant relationship with God.

  • Thank you for your opinion. Your opinion however reflect the proposition of Universalists and humanistic relativist element. Your opinion is a perfect representation of the danger of postmodernism. Its no wonder that the Church is loosing her influence in the society as the bearer of the truth. Christianity is better understood from the viewpoint that it is not one of the regions but rather the truth. Every other thing will be in disarray if the sense of absolute is lost. Nothing help put life in order that the acknowledgment of the revealed truth which God represents. It suffice to say that Salvation is not an outcome of what you do or failed to do but what God has done for us in Christ. It is good to do good work, of course that is what salvation in Christ will help us to do. ” For we are is creation, created in Christ Jesus for good works…” (Ephesians 2:10). Thanks once again.