not the cause, for its rays
can be variegated to produce pleasing colors.

[5] Third: _That only those who have been born in the church are saved is
an insane heresy._ Those born outside the church are human beings equally
with those born within it; they have the same heavenly origin, and like
them they are living and immortal souls. They also have some religion by
virtue of which they acknowledge God's existence and that they should
live aright. One who acknowledges God and lives aright becomes spiritual
in his measure and is saved, as we showed above. It may be protested that
they have not been baptized, but baptism does not save any who are not
washed spiritually, that is, regenerated, of which baptism is a sign and
reminder.

[6] It is also objected that the Lord is not known to them and that there
is no salvation without Him. But salvation does not come to a person
because the Lord is known to him, but because he lives according to the
Lord's precepts. Moreover, the Lord is known to everyone who acknowledges
God, for He is God of heaven and earth, as He Himself teaches (Mt 28:18
and elsewhere). Furthermore, those outside the church have a clearer idea
about God as Man than Christians have, and those who have a concept of
God as Man and live rightly are accepted by the Lord. They also
acknowledge God as one in person and essence, differently from
Christians. They also give thought to God in their lives, for they regard
evils as sins against God, and those who do this regard God in their
lives. Christians have precepts of religion from the Word, but few draw
precepts of life from it.

[7] Roman Catholics do not read the Word, and the Reformed who are in
faith apart from charity do not attend to those utterances in it which
concern life, only to those which concern faith, and yet the Word as a
whole is nothing else than a doctrine of life. Christianity obtains only
in Europe; Mohammedanism and Gentilism are found in Asia, the Indies,
Africa and America, and the people in these parts of the globe are ten
times more numerous than those in the Christian part, and in this part
few put religion in life. What then is more mad than to believe that only
these latter are saved and the former condemned, and that a man has
heaven on the strength of his birth and not on the strength of his life?
So the Lord says:

I say to you, many will come from the east and the west, and recline with
Abraham, Isaac and Jacob in the kingdo