A pastor friend and I are engaged in a texting discussion over the nature of salvation.
In our last exchange he asked:
If someone came to you and asked, “What must I do to be saved from hell, receive eternal life, and be declared righteous before God?” what would you tell them?
I have tried to give this some serious consideration.
But the more I thought about it, the more ridiculous the entire premise became.
I have never been asked this question in the past four decades in which I have taken my faith seriously, and I doubt I will ever hear it the rest of my life.
In fact, I doubt this question has EVER been legitimately asked – unprompted – in the past 2,000 years.
Just look at it:
“What must I do to be saved from hell, receive eternal life, and be declared righteous before God?”
Only people who are ALREADY Christians talk this way.
No unbeliever asks this question.
Which prompts a question from me – and surely, I am not the first to ask it:
Why are we promoting a gospel that answers a question nobody is asking?
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