Originally posted by whag
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are you confusing HABITATION and DESTINATION.
ACTS 17:26 wasn't referring to DESTINATION, as in people deserve it if their destination is hell.
it refers to HABITATION, as in, where they live , BEFORE they die.
My response was not about the whole debate, just only about the part that you had said:
"He seems vulnerable on the point of those people who haven't heard the gospel or even outright reject the message because of native religious enculturation"
I took that to mean, its not fair because people live where they wont get a chance to hear the gospel.
AS IF, oops, God forgot about the people who live where the gospel isn't preached.
But the Bible says there is NO OOPS on God's part. He already determined their habitation. If Bible God knows every individual, then He knows what is the best destination for each one.
and you cannot say an individual in, say, Sri Lanka or Borneo has less chance of getting reached and saved after hearing what a missionary has to say, than an individual in Christianity Land USA , who lives in a technologically advanced SECULAR culture, with overwhelming influence from the SECULAR media and entertainment and schools.
did you know there are now missionaries from 3rd world NON-CHRISTIAN countries , that they are now in the USA .
Just like we from the USA have missionaries in formerly Christian dominated Europe and Eastern Europe, now it looks like Americans are going to have to hear the gospel from new Christians from Asia and Africa pretty soon.
GEOGRAPHY is no barrier on hearing the gospel. It wasn't a barrier for Pagan Europe when the Christians were in the Middle East, and its not a barrier in the rest of the world now either.
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