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J_Edwards said:
However, I also am not going to begin with a faulty presupposition that someone professing Christ "is lost" because of whom he arrived at my office with.
Hmmm, but your "faulty presupposition" that you refuse to begin with is ASSUMED to be faulty and thus it can be equally valid to say that you would begin with a faulty (assumed) presupposition that nearly anyone/everyone who came into your office was "saved". <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/giggle.gif" alt="" />

As I stated elsewhere in this thread, I am a genuine, bona fide Calvinist, who by definition is by nature: suspicious. The N.T. is rife with examples, in fact the majority of those who professed faith in Christ whose "faith" were spurious. Given the present situation we live in today where there are few who preach the truth. And most are not even privy to what the "truth once delivered to the saints" is, never mind actually embrace it. Therefore, if a bias is to be held, it surely would have to be on the side of unbelief or at least a healthy skepticism in regard to an alleged "profession of faith".

In the hypothetical situation, it is an "ex-Muslim" who is currently married in some fashion to multiple women who are "professing Christ". Since, IMHO, missionaries are the least to be trusted as to preaching the true Gospel, and assuming that is where these (ex-)Muslims heard the "gospel", it seems only logical that he and his women should be thoroughly questioned before even considering baptism. To assume that he/their profession is genuine methinks is naive at best.

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