{"id":3114,"date":"2010-02-12T16:21:42","date_gmt":"2010-02-13T00:21:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/?p=3114"},"modified":"2010-08-03T08:39:12","modified_gmt":"2010-08-03T16:39:12","slug":"presbyterians-open-to-the-idea-that-gods-plan-is-not-closed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/religious-news\/presbyterians-open-to-the-idea-that-gods-plan-is-not-closed\/","title":{"rendered":"Presbyterians Open to the Idea That God&#8217;s Plan is Not Closed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 0pt none;\" src=\"\/straight.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Straight Path in  Tobago\" width=\"307\" height=\"230\" \/><br \/>\nA slightly difficult uphill and narrow way in Tobago<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/cogwriter.htm\">COGwriter<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;\">Although most Protestants believe that if you do not accept Christ in this age you cannot be saved, many <\/span>Presbyterians have a more open view:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><!-- BODY,.aolmailheader     {font-size:10pt; color:black; font-family:Arial;} a.aolmailheader:link    {color:blue; text-decoration:underline; font-weight:normal;} a.aolmailheader:visited {color:magenta; text-decoration:underline; font-weight:normal;} a.aolmailheader:active  {color:blue; text-decoration:underline; font-weight:normal;} a.aolmailheader:hover   {color:blue; text-decoration:underline; font-weight:normal;} --><\/p>\n<div>\n<div id=\"hn-headline\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: large;\"><strong>Some Presbyterians see  salvation by other&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;\"><strong>Associated Press<\/strong> &#8211; Feb 10,  2010<\/span><\/div>\n<div>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;\">LOUISVILLE, Ky. \u2014 The Presbyterian Church USA&#8217;s  statement of faith says God through Jesus Christ delivers followers &#8220;from death  to life eternal.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;\">But one in three members of the nation&#8217;s largest  Presbyterian denomination seem to believe there&#8217;s some wiggle room for  non-Christians&#8230;according to a recent poll&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/ap\/article\/ALeqM5i7tADnxuR79MJPcf7h0C8jxGSMGQD9DPE4DO0\" href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/ap\/article\/ALeqM5i7tADnxuR79MJPcf7h0C8jxGSMGQD9DPE4DO0\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial; color: #800080; font-size: x-small;\">http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/ap\/article\/ALeqM5i7tADnxuR79MJPcf7h0C8jxGSMGQD9DPE4DO0<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>And while the Bible itself is clear that salvation is only available through Christ, many people do not realize that Jesus spoke of a time of salvation in a future &#8220;age to come&#8221;.\u00a0 And while that may not be specifically what many Presbyterians believe, those who believe that the God of love loves all are correct to conclude that God has a plan to take into account what has happened to all of humankind.<\/p>\n<p>The idea that God has always had a plan to offer salvation to all is taught in both the Old and New Testaments and was taught by various professors of Christ throughout history.<\/p>\n<p><em>Some articles of possibly related interest may include:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/salvation.htm\">Hope of Salvation: How  the Living Church of God differ from most Protestants<\/a> How the Living  Church of God differs from mainstream\/traditional Protestants, is  perhaps the question I am asked most by those without a Church of God  background.<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/apocatastasis.htm\">Universal Offer of  Salvation: There Are Hundreds of Verses in the Bible Supporting the  Doctrine of True Apocatastasis<\/a> Do you believe what the Bible  actually teaches on this? Will all good things be restored? Will God  call everyone? Will everyone have an opportunity for salvation? Does  God&#8217;s plan of salvation take rebellion and spiritual blindness into account?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A slightly difficult uphill and narrow way in Tobago COGwriter Although most Protestants believe that if you do not accept Christ in this age you cannot be saved, many Presbyterians have a more open view: Some Presbyterians see salvation by other&#8230; Associated Press &#8211; Feb 10, 2010 LOUISVILLE, Ky. \u2014 The Presbyterian Church USA&#8217;s statement [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-religious-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3114"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4453,"href":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3114\/revisions\/4453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}