Can people be saved without willing it?
The common answer to the question is, No. But there is a prime example of salvation going to people who don't will it, baptized babies who die early. Those kids never sinned, but never willed god either, but there parents did.
Even in the Bible there is an example of someone being saved by another Faith: Luke 5:17-26.
It says: When Jesus saw their faith, he said, "Friend, your sins are forgiven." The man was paralyzed and did nothing, so it was not his faith but his friends faith that saved him.
Now here is the big question, is this an event that only occurs when the person is unable to make an act of will on there own? I am uncertain of this, for sin can pass from human to human (Best example: Original Sin)
There is my little musing for today....
-Inch
1 comment:
I think people can be saved without willing it. I do think it's rare, though.
Take an example commonly used to show how someone could be saved without being Catholic: someone who grew up alone on a desert island and who was never told about God. Surely this person wouldn't make an act of the will to be saved, just in case there were a God out there? However, people usually say that such a person could be saved, at least in theory.
As for being saved without willing it happening only when people can't make an act of will on their own, paralyzed people can often (usually?) still think, and thus can still make acts of the will.
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