If you are familiar with Christianity, all humans fall into the wicked and prideful categories.
The fact that you are on the internet suggests you additionally fall into the rich one too.
Now whether God sovereignly chooses his people (calvinism), or humans can also choose e.g. by humbling themselves (arianism) is an open question.
Edit to add: Just because God hasn’t revealed the truth to someone today, doesn’t mean he won’t do it tomorrow or even (though this is heresy) after death.
So I certainly don’t consider all non-Christians to be hopeless, after all I was a non-Christian too, once.
And I also don’t consider all who call themselves Chrstian to be chosen.
A basic doctrine of Christianity is that poor, humble and righteous people are wicked and prideful too.
Only Jesus is perfect.
Some strains believe God choses for reasons we can’t grasp and then those people become more humble and less prideful, etc.
Others believe that if you do your best to be humble and righteous eventually God will reveal himself (though no guarantee that it will happen before your last minute on earth).
I don’t know which of the two it is, or perhaps it is something else entirely.
Now I’m wondering which of those categories I fit in to. They all sound a tad appealing. :)
If you are familiar with Christianity, all humans fall into the wicked and prideful categories.
The fact that you are on the internet suggests you additionally fall into the rich one too.
Now whether God sovereignly chooses his people (calvinism), or humans can also choose e.g. by humbling themselves (arianism) is an open question.
Edit to add: Just because God hasn’t revealed the truth to someone today, doesn’t mean he won’t do it tomorrow or even (though this is heresy) after death.
So I certainly don’t consider all non-Christians to be hopeless, after all I was a non-Christian too, once. And I also don’t consider all who call themselves Chrstian to be chosen.
I was sincere Christian right up until I realised the religion could be better explained by tribal signalling than magic.
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A basic doctrine of Christianity is that poor, humble and righteous people are wicked and prideful too.
Only Jesus is perfect.
Some strains believe God choses for reasons we can’t grasp and then those people become more humble and less prideful, etc.
Others believe that if you do your best to be humble and righteous eventually God will reveal himself (though no guarantee that it will happen before your last minute on earth).
I don’t know which of the two it is, or perhaps it is something else entirely.