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IHO,
i'm confused here cher, are you saying WHY would they want to follow His word? if that is the question, then i guess the answer is for the same reason any of us do.
I am saying that if God is omnipotent AND personal He could get a clear message to isolated people about Jesus or the Bible instantaneously if that were the message He wanted them to hear and live by.
Isolated groups are not isolated from an omnipotent and personal God (if One exists)...they are isolated from other humans. I think it is not a coincidence that it takes human contact to get God's supposed message across. I just don't see God as being of the "personal" variety. That comes from first hand experience...the only first hand experience I will ever get. Second hand accounts are not personal IMO...not to mention there are millions if not billions of conflicting reports.
Does that clear it up?
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yes it clears it up, and i already answered that in one of my earlier posts. the one where i asked "how do you know if God has or hasnt already contacted them"?. ...we dont know.
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I just find it a little suspicious that zero % of isolated communities previously uncontacted by other humans seem to want to follow his Word???
Not true! If you read accounts of Jesuit missionaries interactions with the Illinois, Miami, Huron, and hundreds of other tribes along with Protestant missionaries to former communist nations where the Gospel was suppressed for decades, as well from people from Hindu, Muslim, or Buddist dominated nations you hear of how many of these people had a sense of Christ (The Word made flesh) through the ministry of the Holy Spirit in their lives. The sharing of the Gospel merely clarified and explained what they knew to be true.
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Reputation:98
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Since:Aug 11, 2006
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Bucks,
Not true! If you read accounts of Jesuit missionaries interactions with the Illinois, Miami, Huron, and hundreds of other tribes along with Protestant missionaries to former communist nations where the Gospel was suppressed for decades, as well from people from Hindu, Muslim, or Buddist dominated nations you hear of how many of these people had a sense of Christ (The Word made flesh) through the ministry of the Holy Spirit in their lives. The sharing of the Gospel merely clarified and explained what they knew to be true.
Why is it that the isolated tribes aren't teaching the missionaries about the Gospel? Why does someone else have to tell them how to interpret the senses they are feeling? Because it is not clear...it's ambiguous. Why don't they already have the gospel? Because God did not share it with them personally.
I am also not talking about suppression by govt. I am talking about previously uncontacted peoples.
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Since:Aug 11, 2006
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IHO,
yes it clears it up, and i already answered that in one of my earlier posts. the one where i asked "how do you know if God has or hasnt already contacted them"?. ...we dont know.
I didn't say they weren't "contacted" by God(s)...just not the same personal God you might be use to hearing about. I am sure the differing tribes have been "contacted" by and worshipping all sorts of Gods.
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Since:Jul 18, 2007
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daly, if you don't mind your manners, we may do something you really won't like, pray for you..
Cher, I think this was mentioned before, God has directed his people to go into the world and teach all nations. This was the great commission, he has mandated for us to do it, why I don't know, but the marching orders are there.
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