We don't need no stinkin' edjukashun

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On Thu, 5 Oct 1995 12:35:19 -0500, you wrote:


>I guess I missed this statement the first time it came around, and I
>very well could be taking this very much out of context, BUT consider:
>
>* The tens of thousands of saints in Ethiopia -- what is their education
>level?  If they have, say, "only" 6 years of education are they not saved?

No, the idea is just plain wrong. The only qualification for receiving
the gift of God is obedience. In America we've got the idea that
"hearing how Jesus died for me" is somehow at the root of it, and of
course education plays little part in that too.

 While the essence of that message is present, the new birth occurs
through obedience when someone sets their hearts to worship the true
God and magnifies the name of Jesus. Spiritual Africans generally
reach this point quickly upon realizing that Jesus is the god who made
the material of the idols and nature which they have worshipped.

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