Re: [TruthTalk] The Mediation of Christ

[Dave]

Jonathan Hughes wrote: Mother of Pearl!  There is nothing more annoying than speaking with an American who has such a western-centric worldview.  Please do one of the following to rescue yourself from complete naivety.   1)       Buy a world map or a globe and circle ‘Christian’ countries. 2)       Read about world hunger (note if we aren’t giving them food we aren’t giving them the gospel either) 3)       Ask a missionary at your church if there are those ‘who have never heard’. 4)       Take a vacation in a third world country. 5)       Take a short term mission trip. 6)       Buy a copy of ‘Operation World’ and note all the places Christians have never been. 7)       Find out the population of China. 8)       Do a thought exercise where you are actually born a Muslim in a third world country.  You think that if there is a holiday with the word ‘Christ’ in the name, this is enough to show you the gospel?  Play around with this a bit: become Chinese, Peruvian, Austrian, Iranian, Nigerian etc. 9)       Buy a book on the history of evangelism – look at any chapter that is NOT about the United States. 10)   Read some more commentaries on the first few chapters of Romans (preferably Barth’s) and realize that many if not most theologians do not believe in ‘natural’ theology (meaning that we can come to a knowledge of God from nature or a deep inner recess within ourselves). DAVEH:  Thank you for jumping in, Jon.....I was beginning to think most Christians believed as Perry (and apparently Judy, too) does on this.....which to me seems rather myopic.   Jonathan     I can't speak for "over the millennia" because I don't know how they communicated or what they knew back then.  However, I will say that in working at genealogy I am surprised at how the ancients got about and what they knew before "the information age" so today I have a hard time believing there are many, if any, who have not heard the name of Jesus.  Since 345AD The western nations have their feasts in his name; Islam is well aware and Missionaries have been to Hindu lands, the Amazon, Rain Forest etc.  >From where do you gather these statistics?   From: "Lance Muir" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Judyt: OK. Cumulatively, over the millennia, there are 'billions' who have never heard the name of Jesus. Any disagreement? From: Judy Taylor Why do you believe this Lance, please explain...   From: "Lance Muir" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I believe this to be technically accurate. --From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]     who will testify to this?  g     On Sun, 06 Jun 2004 01:53:13 -0700 Dave <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: ..there are literally billions who have lived and died without even hearing the name of Jesus.. -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Dave Hansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.langlitz.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ If you wish to receive things I find interesting, I maintain Five email lists... JOKESTER, OPINIONS, LDS, STUFF and MOTORCYCLE.