metis
aged ecumenical anthropologist
@KenS and I were having a friendly discussion on this, but our viewpoints tend to be different on the OP title. His position is more along the line of the necessity for people to have a faith belief in Jesus for their salvation, whereas I have long had a problem with that. I'll state my main point, and KenS can state his reasoning. I hope others will chime in on this, but please keep the discussion civil, OK?
It is a bridge too far for me to understand why one person (Jesus), in one small area of the world (eretz Israel), at just one short time period (roughly 2000 years ago) must supposedly be the only way for salvation for all as long as one believes he's the Savior? What about the early Inca, Aztecs, Inuit, Polynesians, Australian Aborigines, Maori, etc.? Doesn't God care about them? or is it "Gods", btw?
My drift is that there must be something we're missing on this because it simply doesn't make sense to me why God would ignore most of the rest of the world's people, including those who came before Jesus' time. I do have an idea, however, but I'd rather have KenS say what he thinks about this before my going any further.
So, KenS, the spotlight in now on you, so don't get knee-rattling stage-fright!
It is a bridge too far for me to understand why one person (Jesus), in one small area of the world (eretz Israel), at just one short time period (roughly 2000 years ago) must supposedly be the only way for salvation for all as long as one believes he's the Savior? What about the early Inca, Aztecs, Inuit, Polynesians, Australian Aborigines, Maori, etc.? Doesn't God care about them? or is it "Gods", btw?
My drift is that there must be something we're missing on this because it simply doesn't make sense to me why God would ignore most of the rest of the world's people, including those who came before Jesus' time. I do have an idea, however, but I'd rather have KenS say what he thinks about this before my going any further.
So, KenS, the spotlight in now on you, so don't get knee-rattling stage-fright!