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Ron,<br><br>Succinctly put! [img]http://www.the-highway.com/w3timages/icons/grin.gif" alt="grin" title="grin[/img] I would also like to expand just a bit on something you said that unfortunately has been distorted by many today:<blockquote><font size=1>In reply to:</font><hr>[color:"blue"]Having said that, YES, it would be better to have never heard the gospel than to have rejected it.</font><hr></blockquote><p>According to many, sinners are condemned to hell BECAUSE they reject the Gospel. What they either state explicitly or implicitly is that mankind is "neutral or innocent" until they hear and reject the Gospel overture. The truth of the matter, which you made clear is that men are by NATURE condemned already, they being the children of the first Adam and thus share both his depravity and GUILT. Thus if someone never heard the Gospel, they would still and most assuredly suffer damnation because of who they ARE, apart from anything they have done (everything being sinful anyway). But having heard the Gospel and then rejecting it they are adding more "fuel to the fire" which is already theirs.<br><br>In His Grace,