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How can Christians be so narrow as to believe that all non Christians will be excluded from heaven?

A good person who has been good all their life … will they go to heaven?

-Sagutin natin ang tanong na ito.

-Malinaw na sagot ni Kristo na ang isang mabuting tao na sinunod ang lahat ng kautusan ng Diyos ay pwedeng matanggap ang buhay na walang hanggan. (Romans 2:6-8)

-Ngunit ang sabi ng Biblia ay no one on earth fits that description (Romans 3:9-18)

5.Q. 4. Lord’s day 5

Q. Can you keep all this perfectly? A. No, I am inclined by nature to hate God and my neighbour.

-This is our problem, that we are slave and rebels so it’s impossible for us to save ourselves by human effort due to our moral corruption.

Every sin is rooted in the inordinate lust for something which comes because we are trusting rather than in Christ for our righteousness or salvation. At the moment we sin it is because we are looking to something to give us what only Jesus can give us. beneath any particular sin is the general sin of rejecting Christ-salvation and indulging in self-salvation. - Tim Keller

-So the point of the exclusiveness of Christianity ay hindi para ipakita to the rest of the unbelieving world na tayong mga Christians ay better o more moral than others. Christians are not better. Rather, the purpose is to communicate that we all share the same alienated condition as human beings and so we bring the gospel as beggars pointing other beggars to the only bread. Hindi tayo itinuturo ng ating Panginoong Hesus sa sarili nating kabutihan. Dahil wala ka nun. Wala ako nun. He is a Savior who comes from the outside to save those who acknowledge themselves sinners in need of a Savior.

-God resolved the dilemma by coming to earth Himself in the person of Jesus Christ who lived the life we should have lived and died the death we deserve. "For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God." (2 Cor 5:21) Jesus humbled himself to become a human being, suffered for sinners the stripes we deserve. He endured on behalf of all his people who would call on his name.

-Jesus said, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me” (John 14:6). Standing on the clear teaching of Scripture, the Protestant Reformers championed the doctrine of solus Christus, that believers are saved from God’s judgment through Jesus Christ alone. Today, however, this doctrine has come under assault in the world and even in some parts of the church. The resources in this collection can help you better understand why Christ alone can save sinners and why this truth is essential for living the Christian life.

-That Christ in his both passive and active obedience we can have salvation.