typical reply from a calvinist id expect that..yet you say you are not one...yet it still does not get God off the hook for being responsible for being the author of sin..and the danger zone, is that you must conjur up new definitions for love,good,all,and world..as the calvinist must do.
good morning raul.
henceforth i will use the terms monergist and synergist.
we are getting nowhere with the other thing.
i like talking to you, but i need to see if you have murder in your heart toward calvinists (hatred and bitterness), or if you can talk about things from any other angle.
SCENARIO:
we have a baby boy born into an Islamic family; who grows up to be a man; who is faithful and obedient to his family; obeys the strict laws of Islam (no porn, no t.v., drugs, booze, profanity, premartial sex, no usury, etc - he is actually living a more morally strict life than b[m]illions of others); obeys the laws of his land; prays 5 times a day; he is monotheistic; he studies his religious texts faithfully. he believes in sin, he knows he has sin; he knows he must fight sin; he confesses his failures and pleads to allah for mercy.
....he has heard of Christianity, clearly...he knows of Jesus as a prophet, and reveres him as such. he does not believe Jesus was the Son of God. he does not believe Jesus was crucified for his sins. he has been instructed from a youth in all he believes. he believes if he is pleasing in all he does, allah might say he he is worthy of paradise.
he grows to be an old man and dies....that man was not reached personally by Christian missionaries.
PAUSE before continuing
does this scenario lack anything?
is it plausible so far?
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