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The actual answer is “I don’t know, the Bible doesn’t say.”

The contradictions between doctrine and the Bible make so much more sense when you view it in the historical context of a tribal religion, as it was written, not as some kind of universal truth. The Bible doesn’t say what happens to people who never hear about it because the writers weren’t thinking about that.

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Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Mathew 18:18 is circuit breaker for those situations: whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven

AKA when in doubt, god defers to the Pope for some reason.

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- ceenote@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  The evolution seemed to be Old Testament = God of Israel, New Testament = God of the Jews and Gentiles, but they still clearly weren’t thinking about people in distant lands like the Chinese or Mesoamericans.
  
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  - bitjunkie@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    
    but they still clearly weren’t thinking about people in distant lands like the Chinese or Mesoamericans.
    
    It’s almost like these books of supposed divine revelation could only have been informed by the experiences of the people who wrote them… 🤔
    
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  - Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    From a religion maintenance POV it makes total sense. From a “god is omniscient and infallible” standpoint, it makes my head hurt.
    
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    bitjunkie@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    I assure you it doesn’t merit that amount of thought.
    
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  - jdr@lemmy.ml ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    But what about the “sheep that are not of this flock”? Couldn’t have been more explicit.
    
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