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    God can apply the results of Jesus's atoning death and re... — Carmelics
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    God can apply the results of Jesus's atoning death and resurrection to people who have never heard of Jesus or acknowledged his lordship.

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    • 1.God is love and desires everyone to be saved.
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    • 2.Christianity holds that salvation comes through Jesus's atoning death and resurrection.
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    • 3.A God who desires universal salvation would not restrict salvation solely to those with explicit knowledge of Jesus.
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    • 1.Classical Reformed theology, following Calvin, holds that God's salvific will is particular, not universal, making 'desiring all to be saved' theologically contested.
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    • 2.If salvation requires genuine faith in Christ's atoning work, applying atonement without cognitive assent collapses the distinction between justification and universalism.
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    • 3.Alvin Plantinga's reformed epistemology grounds warrant in proper function, suggesting salvific belief formed without Christological content lacks the cognitive structure required for saving faith.
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    • 1.John Hick's pluralist framework shows that selectively universalizing one tradition's mechanism of salvation is an ad hoc modification that undermines the exclusivist commitments justifying the claim's Christocentrism.
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    • 2.If atonement's benefits can be applied without knowledge of Christ, the historical particularity of the Incarnation loses its soteriological necessity, contradicting orthodox Chalcedonian commitments.
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    • 3.D.A. Carson argues in 'The Gagging of God' that scriptural warrant consistently ties salvific efficacy to proclaimed, received, and confessed Gospel content, not abstract divine application.
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    knowledge(Distinguished from mere true belief, which may be the product of indoctrination and need not exercise deliberative capacities.)
    Justified true belief — true belief that has been arrived at through the exercise of deliberative capacities, including comparison of and deliberation among alternatives.

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    Probably the best known Christian proponent of this inclusivist perspective is Karl Rahner. Christianity, he argues, cannot recognize any other religion as providing the way to salvation. However, since God is love and desires everyone to be saved, God can apply the results of Jesus’s atoning death and resurrection to everyone, even to those who have never heard of Jesus and his death or have never acknowledged his lordship. Just as adherents to pre-Christian Judaism were able, through the redem
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