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Originally Posted by BrotherLarry
I know we are commissioned to go into all the world; what if Jesus meant just our part of the world and people elsewhere are meant to reach their own?
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I wonder how many people in Africa have not heard about Jesus? For them to have heard they must have been contacted and either accepted or rejected The Good News. Surely it's possible to assess whether their blasphemy levels have impugned The Holy Ghost? All across that country we see people turning away from Christ, denying that He is God, denying that He was affirmed by The Holy Spirit in visible form at His baptism and rejecting the Christian message of Redemption. There was an opportunity to walk away from savage spirits, nature demons and always looking out for "ancestors" (actually devils) but so often they move from animism directly to idolatry and moon worship, two things explicitly condemned by God.
Deuteronomy 4:14-19 excerpt
And the LORD commanded me [Moses] at that time to teach you statutes and judgments.….Take ye therefore good heed unto yourselves.….lest ye corrupt yourselves, and make you a graven image.….and lest thou lift up thine eyes unto heaven, and when thou seest the sun, and the moon, and the stars, even all the host of heaven, shouldest be driven to worship them, and serve them
If by so doing they have moved beyond any possibility of Salvation there would seem little point presenting the message again. A similar assessment could be made for other countries too. The missionaries who have the experience would know where their witness had reached and, from their knowledge of other belief systems determine what types of blasphemy were in action there.