Radical, but David Platt. I found this book from Amazon, where I took a chance on their creepy accurate recommendation. I’m enjoying it immensely, and though I had low/no expectations, I’m thankful that he’s following a theological path that I can get behind.
There’s a quote that just tickled me, and though it’s not the essence of the book, I feel it’s a great comment on an argument that is so often thrown around in disagreement with God/Heaven/Christian Religious Views. The argument is, “What about the person who has never heard the Gospel in his life?” and subsequent belief that he/she should automatically get to Heaven because they “weren’t given a fair chance.” Platt says:
If people will go to heaven precisely because they never had the opportunity to hear about Jesus, then the worst thing we could do for their eternal state woudl be to go to them and tell the about Jesus. That would only increase their chances of going to hell? Before we got there, they were going to heaven; now that we’ve told them about Jesus, the might go to hell. Thanks a lot!
Well put! That cuts me to the quick.
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