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Re: Tolerance (was: THE WORLD OF THE JINN)

From:Ray Brown <ray.brown@...>
Date:Wednesday, October 22, 2003, 6:42
On Tuesday, October 21, 2003, at 10:41 , Tristan McLeay wrote:

> On Tue, 21 Oct 2003, Andreas Johansson wrote: > >> I apparently fell in the common trap of assuming what's true in my neck >> of the >> woods is true everywhere. The Protestant churches in Sweden that I am >> familiar >> with, or at least their more traditionally minded members, would hold >> that only >> those who have never heard the Gospel have a chance of entering Heaven >> without >> having accepted Jesus Christ as their personal saviour. That would >> exclude most >> Jews and at least a big chunk of all Muslims. > > The protestants I know would agree with that. (The ones I know best are in > some sort of denominationy thingy of the Presbyterian Church common in SE > Asia, and some of them would rather die than use a bible other than the > KJV.)
Despite the known errors in translation - strange.
> My Christian education, however, has been Catholic (Mum's side) and > Baptist (Dad's side). > >> May I ask, tho, how long-standing these parts of the Catholic Catechism >> are? It >> strikes me as, well, a bit 20th century. > > Yes, you may. Go ahead :)
This is the post-Vatican II Catechism. I don't have the Tridentine Catechism. But that was drawn up at the time of the Counter-Reformation so probably more euro-centric and inward looking. I suspect during the Crusades remarks about Muslims were not so charitable. But I don't want to engage in a "mine church is more charitable than yours" or "my church is more faithful to the Bible" type of debate. Attitudes have simply changed over the ages; there was a time, e.g. when suicides would not be buried in consecrated ground because they had committed a "mortal sin" by killing themselves. But in these more enlightened times we realize suicide is not as simple as that - it ain't black and white - and judgment is God' s alone. "He [God] wants everyone to be saved and reach full knowledge of the truth, " wrote Paul to Timothy [1 Tim. 2:4]. If that's what God wants (and I believe Paul is right), then that is my wish & hope. Ray. =============================================== http://home.freeuk.com/ray.brown ray.brown@freeuk.com (home) raymond.brown@kingston-college.ac.uk (work) ===============================================

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