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Originally Posted by Jason B
I'm aware. There has always been this tendency to divide, even the apostles sought to forbid someone doing God's work because they weren't part of their group. The problem was bigger by the writing of Corinthians and different factions that were developing, and as history tells us, has always been a blight on Christianity.
Yet many Christians, especially since the beginnings of the refirmation, back into the 1100s-1200s had fellowship with other believers despite differences of opinion. There were exceptions, such as Luther being a jerk to the Zwinglians despite their being united against the errors of the RCC. The persecution of early anabaptists, and other instances.
Just because some condemn all except their own doesn't mean that Christ diesn't have sheep amongst their various fellowships.
Do you really believe all baptists are lost? All Methodist? All Church of Christ? Etc.
Do you really not know any other true believer, save those who are of your own stripe?
Sad. You must not get out much.
I enjoy fellowship with pentecostals, Reformed, Presbyterians, Baptists, and Methodist. Its a great thing to get outside the bubble.
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You misrepresent the demographic facts. It isn't "some" who are exclusive, it is the overwhelming vast majority.
Even you are exclusive, those who don't believe as you do on certain issues aren't saved, according to you.
TBN big tent theology is incompatible with any concept of objective truth, by its very nature.
I get out plenty. Exclusivity is a function of reality, whether its religion, sports, politics, cooking, you name it.
Only liberal prog commies promote the yellow submarine view of life, and they have ulterior motives (their teachers know its all bovine bologna, but its useful in tearing down an existing society to make way for a new order of things).