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To: IN_GOD_I_TRUST who wrote (852)	9/8/1998 8:38:00 PM
From: Dayuhan	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1542

Steve, <<People of all religions can and will be saved.>> I agree absolutely. But please don't mention the notion to Chris or Emile. They froth a bit at the notion of sharing paradise with anyone from a different tradition than theirs. On this question I think we have to look beyond scripture, where it is too easy to hide behind the volume of available quotes and interpretation. Look to God-given conscience and common sense. If all people are God's children, would God exclude any of those children from his presence simply for following a path other than that preached by a single sect? Seems totally incompatible with the notion of a loving and compassionate God. I feel the same way about many of the Old Testament stories, with their smiting and slaying and annihilation. I do not believe that God ever ordered one of his children to kill another. In fact he rather explicitly ordered them not to. If those orders were given, they were given by fallible human intermediaries. If the book says otherwise, then I will have to believe that the book is wrong. I would far rather consider the possibility of error in scripture than consider the possibility that God would order his children to violate one of the most fundamental of his laws. Steve