Speaking of other faiths ...
Today's daily reading from the Study Catechism
on the PC(USA) web site offers this interesting (and approved!)
statement of what we believe.
Thursday, 19 April 2001
Question 51. How will God
deal with the followers of other religions?
God has made salvation available to all human beings
through Jesus Christ, crucified and risen. How God will deal with those
who do not know or follow Christ, but who follow another tradition, we
cannot finally say. We can say, however, that God is gracious and
merciful, and that God will not deal with people in any other way than
we see in Jesus Christ, who came as the Savior of the world.
Rev. 7:9 "And there was a great
multitude that no one could count, from every nation, from all tribes
and peoples and languages, standing before the throne and before the
Lamb, robed in white, with palm branches in their hands."
Ps. 103:8 "The Lord is merciful and
gracious, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love."
John 3:19 "And this is the judgment,
that the light has come into the world, and people loved darkness
rather than light because their deeds were evil."
Titus 2:11 "For the grace of God has
appeared, bringing salvation to all."
Thanks to the Rev. Rollin Kirk, who noted this reading
in the WITHERSPOON MEMBERS meeting on PresbyNet.
You might want to look at Aurelia
Fule's thoughtful essay on this topic, too.
