What are your views on salvation?
Eg - what is required to be saved? Is it solely faith - saying something like the Sinner’s Prayer and “giving your heart to Jesus”? Or do works/sacraments matter? Or is there universal reconciliation? What about those who die in ignorance of Jesus and don’t get the opportunity?
By the Grace of God essentially. Someone who has truly received God’s Grace through Faith, will display good works, attend Church, receive the Sacraments, etc. A Christian who truly believes won’t need to worry about if they’re going to heaven or not.
Those who die in ignorance - I don’t really think it is entirely possible in this day and age to die in ignorance and not get the opportunity. Those who seek after God will be led by the spirit to find Him. Some even reckon that ShangDi’ism and Tengri’ism were proto Christians in some sense, who were guided purely by the Holy Spirit to reach the conclusion they could reach within physical means. But now, it is entirely simple for someone to hear about Jesus and become a Christian via the internet - and I’ve observed it happening, even people secretly converting in Muslim households
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By the Grace of God essentially. Someone who has truly received God’s Grace through Faith, will display good works, attend Church, receive the Sacraments, etc
This sounds Protestant - the Luther I’ve read is exactly like this.
A Christian who truly believes won’t need to worry about if they’re going to heaven or not.
There’s gotta be a way to impart this lesson in a way to doesn’t impact lead to bad mental health loops. Some people struggle with OCD or similar disorders and get stuck on the idea that their salvation “didn’t stick.”
Those who die in ignorance - I don’t really think it is entirely possible in this day and age to die in ignorance and not get the opportunity.
I taught world history in a public high school in Bible Belt, which makes the news every few years because of a very public school prayer or the state trying to mandate the Ten Commandments in classroom, and I had a student who had no idea who Jesus was or what Christianity was. I explained the concept of communion to a college student who had even attended a Christian church before today.
ShangDi’ism
What do you think of the Chinese rites controversy?
This is Christian belief commonly found in Protestantism. I think works based salvation is worse for mental health loops- you always feel as if you’re not “doing enough”. Christianity offers comfort in the certainty of your salvation.
had no idea sho Jesus was or Christianity was
Yet you taught them- they found out. If God desires for someone to be saved, they could find out, even from someone like you sparking it. If they are even of the elect, this could have been the first step, and the Holy Spirit could have been working through you.
Chinese rites controversy
Ancestor worship is immoral, it’s contrary to Christian doctrine. However I have no problem with using the term 上帝 to refer to God in Chinese. Turkish Christians generally use Tanrı which has similar parallel origins.
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