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Darren Lyman

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Aug 23, 2005, 10:17:03 PM8/23/05

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Hey All, I would like to know your thoughts on the Pat Robertson issue from today. Not to pass judgment but I am guessing he is one of these: Matthew 7: 22-23. Your thoughts??? My thoughts are maybe we should feed him, if he is an enemy. Matthew 5:43-48 Wow, a large Christian leader, calling for an Assassination??? What will we hit next? If you do not know about the Pat Robertson issue, turn on the news, or go to CNN.com it is headline news!

Also I found and interesting article today. I would like to know your thoughts on this:

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Your servant in Christ,

Darren Lyman

Here is the link to the article:

http://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/8/232005g.asp

Here is the article:

Survey: Two-Thirds of Evangelicals Doubt Jesus' Words Regarding Salvation Thru Him Alone

By Fred Jackson
August 23, 2005

(AgapePress) - There's a new poll out which points to a growing rejection among Evangelicals that Jesus is the only way of salvation.

For years, most evangelical Christians have been taught and accepted the words of Jesus in John 14:6, where He states, "I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life, and no man cometh unto the Father but my Me." But now a new Newsweek/Beliefnet poll (link: http://www.beliefnet.com/story/173/story_17353_1.html?rnd=39 ) is showing a shocking number of people who call themselves evangelical and born-again have come to reject those words.

The question in the poll read: "Can a good person who isn't of your religious faith go to heaven or attain salvation, or not?"

According to the poll results of more than 1,000 adults 18 years of age and older, 68 percent of evangelical Christians believe "good" people of other faiths can also go to heaven. Nationally, 79 percent of those surveyed said the same thing, with an "astounding" 91 percent agreement among Catholics, notes Beliefnet. Beliefnet spokesman Steven Waldman calls the results "pretty amazing."

"Evangelicals are among the most churchgoing and religiously attentive people in the United States," Waldman writes, "and one of the ideas they're most likely to hear from the minister at church on a given Sunday is that the path to salvation is through Jesus."

In light of that, how -- he asks -- could so many Americans toss aside such a central element of theology?

Waldman believes the best explanation is found in the Newsweek cover story that grew out of the survey. The conclusion it draws is that Americans have become so focused on a very personal style of worship -- that is, forging a direct relationship with God -- that spiritual experience has begun to supplant dogma, or teaching based on the authority of the Bible.