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NOT ALL SHALL BE SAVED
The Jaina view is that there are two kinds of souls; those that shall obtain Nirvana one day or another, and those who shall never attain it. So far as their natures are concerned they are alike, but the difference lies in the degree of malignity of karmas. Where the karmaengendered forces operating on the soul are of the most malignant type, the soul is rendered fanatically hostile to the teaching of Truth, and delights in persecuting those who follow the right faith, with the result that its fanaticism becomes more and more intensified in every human incarnation. As salvation cannot be had unless the right faith be adopted by the soul, he who is opposed to it with all his might and main can never possibly expect to attain it. It is not that an external force will deprive him of the privilege, but his own actions debar him from the great attainment.
The Christian views may be gathered from the following:
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many be called but few chosen."-Matt. xx. 16.
for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it."-Matt. vii. 13-14.
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"Though the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, a remnant shall be saved."-Romans ix. 27.
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there is a remnant according to the élection of grace."Romans xi. 5.
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