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    It is not the case that Some adherents of non-Christian religions will be in God's presence eternally

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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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    • 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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