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To: one_less who wrote (1116)	9/17/2006 2:36:52 PM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10087

No arm of Christianity teaches that only 144K people will be saved. I was brought up in one of the denominations you mentioned and we were taught that acceptance of Jesus and faith in him would save regardless of church affiliation. So it is not true that the various Christian denominations all think and teach that all the others are unsaved. Just fyi.

To: one_less who wrote (1116)	9/17/2006 5:12:39 PM
From: DMaA	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 10087

Despite the heart breaking divisions and bad spirits amongst Christians, there is remarkable unanimity across denominations and across the millennia since the Resurrection that Jesus is the Christ, Messiah. As to the subject of eschatology, my particular denomination practically ignores the entire subject. I can't remember a single sermon over the decades on a lesson from Revelation. My denomination puts no upper limit on the number who will be saved. The Gospel we teach is that salvation is achieved through faith in Jesus - period. And that complete forgiveness of sins, on this basis, is freely given and available to anyone. If you Christians wiped every Muslim alive today off the planet, this argument would be redirected at some other group, maybe one of those I mentioned above, and you know it. I wonder if you’ve reconsidered that since you wrote it. I don’t think the harshness is consistent with the bulk of your posts here. The other thing that is consistent across Christian denominations in 2006, though regrettably not consistently across the millennia, is that all humans are our brothers, and that we will be judged on how we treat our brother. You have nothing to fear from sincere Christians.