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Conflicting Views Of Christian Exclusivism And Christian Universalism

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This essay considers faith and reason with a focus on the conflicting viewpoints of Christian exclusivism and Christian universalism. It is worth to take a moment to figure out whether the Bible or other sources related to Christianity reveal any indication of God’s view on non-believers before understanding these two different perspectives. If Christians are asked whether they are living by faith or reason, it would be difficult to answer clearly. The conservative’s view on ‘whether non-believers could earn eternal life from God or not’ is that there would be no source of salvation if people sought God but did not live by the gospel. On the other hand, those who hold a more liberal view on this issue would insist that anyone could be loved by God since people are not saved by their works but by their faith. For example, in John 14:6, Jesus claims that “I am the way, and the truth, and the life” (Seeing Gray, 108). Responding to another question which is ‘Will there be Jews, or Muslims, or …show more content…

According to the bible, faith is the matter of objects which are wished for. Faith is earning conviction in something humans not encountered with their perceptions. Faith is something that humans believe even if they do not have any reasonable cause to trust. Therefore, faith and reason are not conflicting as people normally think. Having misapprehension of faith led to having misconstruction of reason among various people. Since I am Christian, however, I have learned that Jesus Christ is our Lord and humans are saved because Jesus Christ died to make humans’ sins forgiven. To explain reason, faith in God is needed. Due to the fact that reason cannot be explained without having faith in God, it leads humans to realize that having faith as Christian allows reason

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