[T_Samner]

Originally posted by Moneyguy1
T:


Your interpretation of Christ's words in interesting, but I doubt that "unbelievers" who lead a good and yes, "holy" life such as the Dali Lama will be condemned to everlasting damnation. THAT is the elitist attitude that I rail against. And, yes, I am a Christian. However, since I am not an "evangelical", I have been told by same that I am "not really a Christian and am not saved". How do you address that attitude?

If you are a Christian, then you should know that Isaiah 64:6 is how God views our "righteousness" and the other scripture here states the only way a person can be saved.

Isaiah 64:6 (New King James Version)

6 But we are all like an unclean thing,
And all our righteousnesses are like filthy rags;
We all fade as a leaf,
And our iniquities, like the wind,
Have taken us away.

Jeremiah 17:5-9 (New King James Version)

5 Thus says the LORD:

“ Cursed is the man who trusts in man
And makes flesh his strength,
Whose heart departs from the LORD.
6 For he shall be like a shrub in the desert,
And shall not see when good comes,
But shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness,
In a salt land which is not inhabited.
7 “ Blessed is the man who trusts in the LORD,
And whose hope is the LORD.
8 For he shall be like a tree planted by the waters,
Which spreads out its roots by the river,
And will not fear[a] when heat comes;
But its leaf will be green,
And will not be anxious in the year of drought,
Nor will cease from yielding fruit.
9 “ The heart is deceitful above all things,
And desperately wicked;
Who can know it?

Acts 4:8-12 (New King James Version)

8 Then Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, said to them, “Rulers of the people and elders of Israel: 9 If we this day are judged for a good deed done to a helpless man, by what means he has been made well, 10 let it be known to you all, and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified, whom God raised from the dead, by Him this man stands here before you whole. 11 This is the ‘stone which was rejected by you builders, which has become the chief cornerstone.’[a] 12 Nor is there salvation in any other, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.”

John 14:6 (New King James Version)

6 Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.