Hence according to the teaching I am reviewing these people will be saved since they are ''sincere. But in the next verse he says they will all be damned, notwithstanding they are sincere. Our venerable brother is sincere. His writing provides opportunity for a clarification of my position. A proposition is one thing, belief of it another thing, and sincerity of motive still another.
Sincerity is honesty of mind or intention.
It is freedom from pretence or hypocrisy. Such an attitude will not necessarily save a person, but lack of it will damn a person. We live in a decadent age of Christianity. Christians have become separated, segregated, and divided from each other. Many are in human parties, or denominations.