Wednesday, April 6, 2011

Rob Bell in His Own Words (Part Three)

"As soon as the door is opened to Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists, and Baptists from Cleveland, many Christians become very uneasy, saying that then Jesus doesn't matter anymore, the cross is irrelevant, it doesn't matter what you believe, and so forth.

Not True.
Absolutely, unequivocally, unalterably not true.

What Jesus does is declare that he,
and he alone,
is saving everybody.

And then he leaves the door way, way open. Creating all sorts of possibilities. He is as narrow as himself and as wide as the universe."

All of the above words are Mr. Bells. If what Mr. Bell is saying is that any Muslim can turn to God and repent and have faith in Christ and Christ alone, then I am in total agreement with him. Unfortunately what I believe he is saying is that Jesus will save everyone on their path, whatever path that may be, either that or they can repent and have faith in Jesus after death.

Again, back to Acts 4:12, "And there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved."

People can't call on the name of Buddha, Muhammad, Krishna, etc. to be saved, if I am to believe what the Bible says is true. Now if I don't want to believe what the Bible says is true then I can believe what Mr. Bell is saying above. But I can't believe it if I don't want to throw out Acts 4:12 and any one of a number of other whole sections of the Bible.


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