Billy Graham

[Originalist]

Originally Posted by Aquila

You see, in my position it is okay to believe that they were wrong. In fact, I'd probably argue that they were wrong on a number of things. However, I believe in taking a step back and allow God to be the judge of their eternity. And that was their position too, especially when dealing with those Christians who do not follow us.

You see, we often make these judgments... but we don't know every moment of the lives of such sincere Christians. We know that many historic Christians were baptized, and while baptized in some crazy formula, they, themselves, were crying out to Christ for salvation. We also know from the study of history that many of these individuals had moments of weeping in prayer, weeping unintelligible utterances, in sobbing tears (the baptism of the Holy Ghost). Who is to say that God will not accept such, having mercy on their misunderstandings?

I just back up and give it to God.

For the life of me, I cannot understand why so many Apostolics have such a hard time with the simple yet profound statements you made here.