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    Some adherents of non-Christian religions will be in God'... — Carmelics
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    Some adherents of non-Christian religions will be in God's presence eternally

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    • 1.God is just
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    • 2.A just God would not condemn those who have met whatever divine conditions they had the power to meet
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    • 3.Some adherents of other religions have met the divine conditions within their power to meet
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    • 1.Salvation, on orthodox Christian accounts (e.g., Aquinas, Calvin), is constitutively tied to explicit union with Christ, not merely to moral desert.
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    • 2.If eternal presence with God just is participation in the Trinitarian life through Christ, then non-Christological paths cannot logically terminate in that state.
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    • 3.Therefore, divine justice and non-Christian salvation cannot be reconciled by appealing to met conditions alone, without begging the question about what the conditions are.
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    • 1.Alvin Plantinga and others argue that if Christian exclusivism is warranted, the pluralist's epistemic principle—that no single tradition can be correct—is self-undermining.
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    • 2.The supporting argument's premise that God would not condemn those who 'met conditions within their power' presupposes a generic theism that no actual tradition endorses.
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    • 3.A condition-meeting framework derived from no specific revelatory tradition lacks the theological authority needed to adjudicate soteriological outcomes across traditions.
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    Inclusivists, it should be noted, differ on the conditions such “anonymous Christians” must meet. Some stipulate, for instance, that those who have never heard “the gospel” still have both some innate knowledge of God and the freedom to establish a relationship with God and, therefore, that the eternal destiny of those in this category is dependent on the extent to which they commit as much as they know of themselves to as much as they know of God through, or even apart from, a religion other th
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