Calling everyone you differ with a “heretic” doesn’t help the cause of Christ, and church history has more than enough examples of Christians damning other Christians to hell (or even drowning them or burning them at the stake). The fact is that non-essential doctrinal differences don’t determine who goes to heaven and who goes to hell, and as passionate as we might be about our beliefs, if someone holds to the essential fundamentals of the faith and has not denied the Lord by living a life of unrepentant sin, that person is our brother or sister. They may or may not speak in tongues; they may be Calvinist or Arminian; they may reject or accept female pastors; they may be pre-trib, mid-trib, post-trib, or no-trib; they may believe in divine healing for today or believe that sickness can be a gift from God—this is just the beginning of a very long potential list—but if they have recognized themselves as lost sinners, put their trust in Jesus, the divine Son, as the only Savior and Lord, believed that He died for their sins and rose from the dead, and they now live a new life of obedience to him, according to God’s Word, they are saved, which makes them part of the same spiritual family.
Posted on: Wed, 30 Oct 2013 17:42:39 +0000
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