Monday, August 11, 2008

Evangelicals increasingly tolerant of other paths

http://www.newsobserver.com/105/story/1169198.html

[The News & Observer] 11 Aug 2008--At a meeting with Sen. Barack Obama recently, the Rev. Franklin Graham asked the presidential hopeful a burning question: Did he think Jesus was the way, or merely a way?

For Graham, -- president of the Billy Graham Evangelic Association and Samaritan's Purse, both based in North Carolina -- the answer was critical. Through the ages, Christian evangelicals have affirmed that eternal life is available only through belief in Jesus. This is why they send missionaries around the globe and translate the New Testament into every known language.
For many evangelicals, the exclusivity of Jesus is the linchpin of their faith.

"Anyone who claims to be an evangelical and who says it's possible to go to heaven other than through faith in Jesus Christ is not an evangelical," said Danny Akin, president of Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary in Wake Forest.

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