As per Christianity, are cultures who have never and will never be exposed to the religion going to hell?

Answer 1

My thoughts....

Those who live in a region of the world where the name of Jesus Christ is not known, and where the written Word is not available, are not automatically disqualified from salvation. God desperately loves these people and I believe God will judge them based upon the reveled knowledge that He gives to all mankind through nature, conscience, and spirit, apart from scripture. Furthermore, throughout scripture, God also spoke to people who earnestly sought him through dreams and visions as well. Missionaries to un-reached people groups have verified this very fact. Although Christ commissioned us to go unto all the world, and do this we must, God is not limited exclusively by human effort. The work Christ accomplished on the cross was for all mankind. Let me state, and make it unequivocally clear that if these people do enter the kingdom of God (heaven) it is NOT by good works, or through an alternative “door”. Jesus is the only “Door”. The shed blood of Christ is the only way any mans sins are forgiven. Even though they may not ever “hear the gospel”, or even the name of Jesus Christ, it is still possible for them to be “saved” based upon their obedience to reveled knowledge. One thing is clear; 10For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened. The Lord will make a way to reveal Himself to those who humbly and earnestly seek him. And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart (Jeremian 29:13). Just as I would agree an infant who dies will go to be with the Lord, even though he never asked Jesus to forgive his sins, or be his savior, so to is the person with extremely limited revelation (the written Word, and the preaching of the Gospel). This is not to say they are not accountable for their sins, because they are, the Lord will have to judge their heart in His supreme wisdom. My knowledge of God’s character as reveled in the entirety of Scripture will simply not allow me to accept a hermeneutic whereby God would eternally damn someone with out even giving them an opportunity to receive salvation. (Obviously hyper-Calvinists and myself would butt heads). We as believers clearly have an obligation though to do all we can to either attempt to reach these people with the message of the gospel ourselves, or at the very least support (through prayer and financial gifts) those who are actually doing the work. The Scriptures, in a very natural way, combine the doctrines of divine election and human responsibility. We may not be able to understand how both can be true, but Scripture teaches both, so both must be true. Even though we don’t yet fully comprehend how each supports the other, we can rejoice in knowing God is in complete control and His Word is perfect.

Answer 2

God calls on us to bring our Faith to every Culture in the World.

Children 12 and under are guaranteed passage to Heaven regardless of what they believed.

There are some Cultures that seem to believe in 1 God cause of info on God being passed down but such lost contact in Ancient times with all the Teachings which makes me wonder what of those who are worshipping God but had no chance to know all the information.

Ya know what though when one from a Tribal culture learns the word of Christ for the 1st time and accepts it some wind up wondering why the message was not delivered to the Tribe before.

Answer 3

What does religion have to do with it? If you study your Bible, you would have found out that God doesn't like religion at all. Not everyone is going to go to the Lake of Fire with Satan. There are many people around the world that have never heard of God. These peoples are loved by God just the same. All will have the opportunity to accept Jesus Christ as their Saviour either in this Earth Age or during the Millennium. Its all in the volume of the Book.><>

Answer 4

The question should be have they done enough sin to go to hell? There have been very recently reports of Muslims dreaming of Jesus & being saved. Not just in the middle east either but in very remote parts of the world? How many sins does it take to warrant hell? Answer - 1. That is how Holy The God of the Universe is.

Answer 5

having or not having a religion does change the fact that if hell exists or not. Either way hell still exists. It only depends on if the person is a good person or an evil person. If the person is evil, then yeah, although he has a religion or not; - he is going to hell.

Answer 6

No. If God is forgiving, as he supposedly is, he'll understand that there is no way they'd be able to know about him.

I personally believe that if anyone worships anything (other than the devil, I suppose), they'll go to heaven. Because isn't God supposed to be in everything? Isn't he all things? Thus, if you worship the sun, and the grass, and the wind, aren't you just worshipping God and thanking him for all the small things we don't normally notice? Thus, since these type of cultures tend to worship these things, are they not worshipping the small miracles of God?

Answer 7

There is no culture on the face of this planet that will not, at some point, hear the Gospel. That is one of the things that is prophesied in the Bible. Only when every person that is alive on earth has heard the Gospel at least once, will Jesus return.

Answer 8

Some Christians take the hard-line stance and say, "Yes," without reservation. I myself fall into the camp that says, "Not necessarily, though it's unfortunately likely."

The reason why I say "not necessarily" is that I don't think God would judge a person based upon things that person, through no fault of his/her own, couldn't possibly know. It's one thing to live in a Christian nation like America and not know the gospel, considering there's practically a church on every corner here. But native tribes living in a rain forest are another story -- in some cases, people in this situation not only don't know the gospel but have no way of knowing that a gospel even exists to be known. All they know is the world around them and what's in their hearts, and if they respond to this limited knowledge in faith and trust toward the Creator, then I believe the possibility of salvation is open to them.

However, the reason I add "it's unfortunately likely" that people in such a position of ignorance would go to hell is the fact that peoples such as this tend to develop pagan religions for themselves rather than clinging in faith to the limited truth they do know, and pagan religions have the common thread of turning worship and faith away from God and toward created things.

Furthermore, without knowing about what God has done for us in Jesus Christ, there's really very little reason to have faith and act in love, as we would have no concrete evidence that God, in fact, loves us. As the Apostle John writes: "God showed how much he loved us by sending his only Son into the world so that we might have eternal life through him." It is the knowledge that God loves us so much that he sent His only Son to die for our sins that gives Christians the imperative to go out and love in a like fashion.

Could a person act in faith and love without this knowledge? I believe it is possible, and that is why I believe the door of salvation is still open even to people who live utterly separated from any chance of hearing the gospel. However, I also acknowledge the extreme difficulty that ignorance of God's most concrete expression of His love and mercy toward us -- the atoning sacrifice of Jesus Christ -- would cause people, which is why I believe this possibility must never be entertained as an excuse for Christians to avoid fulfilling their Christ-given mission of telling all people everywhere about the love of God demonstrated in Jesus Christ.

Answer 9

If a person doesn't get the opportunity to get to know God then God will judge them, and possibly allow them into Heaven. When a young child dies they go to Heaven, this is because they were too young to understrand. God said everyone gets the chance to know God and if you turn him down then you will spend eternal life in Hell.

Answer 10

Yes.