This is what today's "Primitive Baptists" (aka "Hardshells") believe about the teaching of Scripture regarding salvation. Recently a Hardshell sent me a text where he said that, according to the means view, the present Corona virus is keeping people from being saved by its shutting down church meetings (gatherings over 10 or 50 people) and thus keeping people from hearing the gospel. He thought that the fact that less gospel was being preached, due to the virus, was really no big deal! God's people will be saved whether they ever hear any gospel! Believers in Means and in the necessity of evangelical faith and repentance for salvation therefore, by Hardshell thinking, are logically forced to admit that less church meetings means less saved, and to the Hardshell mind, such an admission is theological stupidity. In a nutshell I simply say that the Hardshell message is well stated in the title of this posting - Don't Know Jesus? No Big Deal! Less preaching and teaching about Jesus? No big deal! People will be saved whether they ever know Jesus via the gospel!
I am so glad to be free of such twisted logic and debased reasoning!
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