One of the greatest burdens on the souls of many Christians is the doctrine that the vast majority of humans are condemned to hell with no option for escape. This doctrine, commonly taught and accepted, states that unless people have personally confessed Jesus as their personal Savior while in mortality, they cannot be saved and are bound to an eternity in hell. This terrible prospect has been exploited to whip up evangelical zeal among many Christians. “You must help spread the word or millions more will be lost!”
Yet, even if we do all the missionary work we can muster, there are millions of people we will not reach. Can we possibly be resigned to watching masses of humans fall into the lake of fire without ever having a chance to embrace the Truth?The gloomiest of assessments, made by Du Moulin, a professor of history at Oxford in 1680, estimated thatprobably not even 1 in a million of God’s ancient children will be saved!
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