Another example how Evangelicals make Jesus Ugly

R2E (aka 'The Road'): We Make Jesus Ugly




Can God Reach the Mentally Disabled?
Are mentally challenged adults whose intellectual age is probably that of a 1-year-old sheltered under God's salvation?
Lewis B. Smedes

March 5, 2001

I care for mentally challenged adults whose intellectual age is probably that of a 1-year-old. How can I assure their parents that their children are sheltered under God's salvation?—Robin Fose, New York


This is a question conceived not in a curious mind but in a caring heart, so I feel a special burden to answer it in a way that is both biblically true and personally comforting. I need to say at the start, however, that I can find no Bible text telling us forthrightly that mentally disabled people who cannot confess Jesus Christ as Savior are "under God's salvation." As I read the New Testament, I find only one path to salvation—the path of an informed faith in Jesus Christ.

John, Peter, and Paul, for instance, implied that the saving response to the gospel involves a rational choice. When John the Baptist told people how to be saved, he said they needed to believe in Jesus (John 3:36). When people at Pentecost asked Peter how they could be saved, he said they should repent and be baptized (Acts 2:37-38). And when Paul set out the human conditions for salvation, he summed them up as believing and confessing Christ (Rom. 10:9).

True, the apostles did not expressly say that people will be saved only if they repent, believe, and confess. But most evangelicals assume—with good reason—that this is what the apostles implied..........................

http://www.ctlibrary.com/ct/2001/march5/31.94.html


Imp Ape's editorial comment:
Balderdash, Poppycock and BullSpit !!!!!!

Apparently most of us Evangelicals don't even know what Jesus taught about being saved and yet we obnoxiously, and self righteously pontificate on how all human flesh (except for our own blessed evangelical butt) is going to Hell .


R2E (aka 'The Road'): No one comes to the Father but......

R2E (aka 'The Road'): I tell you, this man went down to his house justified

according to Jesus none of the hoop jumping mentioned by the good Dr. Smedlap Smeddes is required to be justified.
A simple heart that knows no self righteousness, or self justification and that hopes in the mercy of God is enough according to Jesus. This grace is more accessible to the developmentally disabled than to most evangelicals preaching the bad news of other-condemnation and self-love.

Who are you gonna believe?

I pick Jesus over any 2 bit, backwoods, snake handling theologian Kenneth Hagin, Kenneth Copeland or Benny Hinn or any worthless money grubbing TV evangelist can produce. to justify themselves