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    Inclusivists are wrong to argue that salvation is possibl... — Carmelics
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    Inclusivists are wrong to argue that salvation is possible only because of conditions or events described in the one true religion

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    • 1.John Hick's pluralist hypothesis demonstrates that moral and spiritual transformation occurs across traditions without reference to a uniquely true religion's events.
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    • 2.Karl Rahner's own 'anonymous Christian' framework concedes that grace operates outside explicit Christian categories, undermining the necessity of one tradition's specific conditions.
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    • 3.If even the inclusivist's most sophisticated defender concedes grace operates outside his tradition's explicit conditions, the uniqueness claim collapses from within.
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    • 1.Alvin Plantinga's Reformed epistemology shows that warrant for religious belief is not confined to any single tradition's propositional content.
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    • 2.If salvific warrant can arise independently of specific doctrinal content, then no single religion's conditions are necessary for salvation.
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    • 1.There is no one true religion
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    • 2.Inclusivists claim salvation depends on conditions or events specific to the one true religion
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    Salvific pluralists, however, find such reasoning no more convincing than that offered by exclusivists. Inclusivists are right, pluralists grant, to say that individuals need not necessarily know of or fulfill certain requirements normally specified in a given religion to attain salvation. But inclusivists, like exclusivists, are wrong to argue that this salvation is, itself, possible only because of certain conditions or events described in the one true religion. There is no one true religion a
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