This story reveals that we...
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This story reveals that we find faith in unexpected places, including in Naaman, the army commander of the Gentile nation of Aram. This is not so surprising when we keep in mind famed modern theologian Karl Barth's claim that Christ's light shines everywhere. He spoke of "hidden neighbors outside the church" who are to be the object of the church's mission (Church Dogmatics, Vol. I/2, p. 425). Indeed, the Second Vatican Council of the Roman Catholic Church even taught the possibility that non-Christians might be saved:
"Those who through no fault of their own, do not know the gospel or Christ or his church, but who nevertheless seek God with a sincere heart and are moved by grace, try in their actions to do his will as they know it through the dictates of their own consciences -- those too may achieve eternal salvation" (Lumen Gentium, p. 16).
No one is so far from God to be unreachable.
"Those who through no fault of their own, do not know the gospel or Christ or his church, but who nevertheless seek God with a sincere heart and are moved by grace, try in their actions to do his will as they know it through the dictates of their own consciences -- those too may achieve eternal salvation" (Lumen Gentium, p. 16).
No one is so far from God to be unreachable.
