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As mentioned earlier, Yonggi Cho's biographical accounts resemble those of Charles Finney and thus strike me as reasonably convincing.
Ideally each step of the process should involve 100% certainty. For example, a typical sequence might look like this:
Not sure what's unclear about that. I am defending my understanding of biblical evangelism, and you are defending yours.
As mentioned in a recent post, conscience is our ultimate authority, where conscience is defined as feelings of certainty. Thus an earthquake's function in Acts was to help raise the level of certainty to 100%. God evidently GLORIES (i.e. enjoys) using signs and wonders to raise our level of certainty to 100%, but He can also do this internally in our hearts without such external signs. Direct revelation can always, in fact, be defined as God-given feelings of certainty. For more discussion on this topic, see my thread.
I've never met anyone who is 100 percent. It only happens in the writing of legends. Like the book of Acts.
I'm not defending anything. I'm challenging your lack of understanding and experience.
John 20:29
This ignores all the posts that I wrote to the contrary. So you'd try to murder your own son (Abraham), or slaughter a nation (Moses, Joshua, Samuel, David, etc), just because you heard a voice, even if the voice left you somewhat uncertain? If so, you're a monster.
That's pretty dramatic. - lol
Where's the 100 percent in that?
Where does that verse say that 100% certainty is impossible?
100 billion souls whose eternal salvation is at stake is actually far MORE dramatic than slaughtering a nation. You've chosen to remain in denial about how dramatic that is. And why should you be concerned? You've got your own fire insurance insurance, after all.
Seriously?
More like fire "assurance". Everyone will be salted with fire. Even you.
Not sure your point. Are you claiming we all goto hell instead of heaven?
You have made this claim repeatedly. I need to say at this point that none of those souls are "at stake", as you say. Meaning, there are no souls that will be lost ultimately. In the end every knee will bow and every tongue confess Jesus Christ as Lord. This means that at the restoration of all things none will be lost. That does not mean that we should not be about evangelism in the here and now. But that eventually all will be saved.
Temporarily, yes.
