A few observations...
Lack of Christianity is killing people, and the world.
In that sense any kind of Christianity - of desiring salvation by Jesus Christ - is better than nothing.
I believe that the decision concerning salvation comes after death of the body. Which is just as well; because it means that the very large majority who are not Christian and have little prospect of becoming so, still have the chance to choose.
Nonetheless, it is still "our-selves" that makes the choice after death: the eternal spiritual self that we carry over through death...
This means that any of the majority (it seems) who were born with good souls, souls capable of love and valuing love, and who are genuinely ignorant or innocent in mortal life; will have a good chance of choosing rightly after death...
When they have discovered that the offer of resurrected, eternal Heavenly life is real and possible; their loving nature and desires will make them want what Jesus offers.
Yet, even among those born with good souls; how few adolescents and adults - especially in The West - are genuinely ignorant or innocent!
And it is exactly their desires that are disordered - that are too-often (at least, so far as one can judge) actively turned-against salvation.
And even among self-identified Christians, there seem extremely few who seem to have salvation as their positive priority...
And it seems that the Churches are so confused or corrupted in their priorities that they seldom seem to help and very often strongly hinder clarity on this crucial point. .
Because negative desires - such as fear of death or misery or hell - do not suffice; and indeed (given the many alternative possibilities to salvation) hardly assist at all in making the right choice.
This is perhaps the biggest "Christianity problem" of our times.
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