"This is where my faith is tested the most. For every street kid that finds a missionary who witnesses them, there are probably thousands that don't.............. Why would the only way to salvation be denied to so many??"
Salvation is denied to no one. Each must choose the Cross or reject it. It is presumptuous on your part to imply that some who truly desire the truths and the love of God are denied. God knows the hearts of all men who seek him and desire him with all their hearts.
When a heart truly seeks God they will find him. God gives us that assurance in his Word.
The history of Christianity is full of examples of lone missionaries finding their way to the deepest enclaves of pagan Africa, India, or Europe and bringing the Gospel ot hungry souls. God knows his business better than we do. You entire line of reasoning assumes that God lacks compasssion, that he lacks understanding and that he is incompetent.
Everyone does not desire the Gospel and the love of God. LIke Satan, the majority of men desire darkness rather than light.
Finallly, the cripple, the starving and the blind are probably more numerous on Wall ST. and SI than in deepest darkest Africa.
Financial prosperity, affluency, and an abundance of academic knowledge are in fact the most crippling diseases of spiritual health.
They blind the eyes, starve the heart and deform the spirit of our inner man.
The carnal minded are far more impressed with the external diseases of the body. |
