I appreciate Perry's forthrightness in this post.
JD
-----Original Message-----
From: Charles Perry Locke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [email protected]
Sent: Sun, 26 Jun 2005 13:12:21 -0700
Subject: Re: [TruthTalk] Belief
Lance,
I agree that "Every christian believer believes 'through' an errant framework". But how errant is too errant? Is there a line that can be drawn? In the end either we are saved or we are not. Was our framework "too" errant? Was our image of Jesus too far from the real Jesus? If we are "too" errant for salvation, but did not know it, are we saved? These are mighty questions.
To be totally honest, I cannot say with complete certainty that mormons are not saved. Maybe their degree of errancy in their image of God and Christ falls within the "saved" camp. However, from what I read in the Bible, I believe that they are on the "too errant" side. That is why I spend the time I do on TT doing what I do. If I did not care I would be silent. If I thought that they were "in the fold", I would say to them "Welcome, brothers and sisters."
Perry
I agree that "Every christian believer believes 'through' an errant framework". But how errant is too errant? Is there a line that can be drawn? In the end either we are saved or we are not. Was our framework "too" errant? Was our image of Jesus too far from the real Jesus? If we are "too" errant for salvation, but did not know it, are we saved? These are mighty questions.
To be totally honest, I cannot say with complete certainty that mormons are not saved. Maybe their degree of errancy in their image of God and Christ falls within the "saved" camp. However, from what I read in the Bible, I believe that they are on the "too errant" side. That is why I spend the time I do on TT doing what I do. If I did not care I would be silent. If I thought that they were "in the fold", I would say to them "Welcome, brothers and sisters."
Perry
