Chapter 12: The False Salvation Doctrine

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Example Five

Emotion can accompany the message of salvation. Indeed, the very subject of eternal life is packed with emotion since most of us are familiar

with death in our family. My sister-in-law Candy recently emailed me the touching story shown below. I share it with you because it represents the message of Christianity in simple lay terms. The original writer is unknown to me. Listen to the words of a sincere Christian who tells the story of

salvation in Jesus Christ in an honest and heart-tugging way. All of us can understand the story. However, is it the truth of salvation according to the words of the Holy Bible? The email story is titled: “A letter in the night.”

A letter in the night

One day a woman named Louise fell asleep in her bed, and dreamed a very

fitful dream. She dreamed that someone in Hell wrote a letter to her, and it was to be delivered to her by a messenger. The messenger passed between the lakes of burning fire and brimstone that occupies Hell, and found his way to the door that would lead him to the outside world. Louise dreamed

that the messenger walked to her house, came inside, and gently but firmly woke Louise up.

He gave her the message, saying only that a friend had written it to her from

Hell. Louise, in her dream, with trembling hands took the letter and read:

My Friend,

I stand in judgment now, And feel that you’re to blame somehow.

On earth, I walked with you day by day,

And never did you point the way.

You knew the Lord in truth and glory, But never did you tell the story.