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    Salvation is not possible only because of conditions or e... — Carmelics
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    Salvation is not possible only because of conditions or events described in any single true religion

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    • 1.John Hick's pluralist hypothesis holds that the Real manifests across traditions, making salvific transformation available through multiple authentic paths.
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    • 2.If diverse traditions produce genuine moral and spiritual transformation (saints, sages, bodhisattvas), their soteriological mechanisms cannot be reducible to one tradition's conditions.
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    • 3.Restricting salvation to one tradition's conditions entails that billions born outside it are damned through no fault of their own, violating the premise of a perfectly just and loving ultimate reality.
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    • 1.Perennial philosophers like Aldous Huxley and Frithjof Schuon identify a transcendent unity of religions at the esoteric level, where salvific realization shares a common metaphysical structure across traditions.
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    • 2.If the soteriological core (liberation from ego, union with the ultimate) is structurally identical across traditions, then no single exoteric formulation exclusively owns the salvific conditions.
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    • 1.There is no one true religion
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    • 2.If there is no one true religion, then no single religion can be the sole source of salvific conditions or events
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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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