Can a person get saved completely on their own without anyone else giving them the gospel?
A person cannot be saved completely on their own in the normal pattern, because God must open the heart and He ordinarily uses a minister or teacher to bring His Word. Still, it is described as very, very seldom, not absolutely impossible, since rare cases claimed salvation without outside input.
Les teaches from Acts 16 that Lydia worshipped God and heard Paul, but it was the Lord who opened her heart so she attended to Paul’s message. God opened Lydia’s heart, yet He used Paul as the instrument to give her the Word. Les applies this same pattern today: no minister or teacher can accomplish anything unless the Lord opens the heart. Believers are instruments God can use when He opens a heart so that somebody can give Him the Word. He also says this kind of salvation without outside input is very, very seldom, and he will not say it cannot happen because he has run across two people who claimed to have found salvation absolutely by themselves, without anyone giving them any outside input.
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Can a person find salvation entirely on their own without anyone giving them any outside input?
It is very seldom that a person claims to have found salvation absolutely by themselves with no outside input; Les says he has run across two such cases, and he will not say it cannot happen.
Can a person get saved by just reading the Bible alone with no one to tell them?
It is rare for a person to come to salvation without any human instrument, though it can happen — as with a young man who was stranded alone in the Canadian wilderness for a whole winter with only a Bible and by spring had come to a knowledge of salvation.
Can a person get saved by reading the Bible alone without anyone telling them?
It is rare but possible for a person to come to salvation with only a Bible and no human teacher, as with a young man who was stranded in the Canadian wilderness for a whole winter with nothing to do but read that Bible and by spring had come to a knowledge of salvation.