Christians please explain...?

Question

I have read numerous post from christians that if you don't accept Jesus then you will go to hell and be dammed for eternity. How do christians reconcile this with the fact that the majority of the human race is not christian.. are they all doomed?
Additionally how do you reconcile the fact that until the 17th the 18th century the vast majority of the world had no way of even knowing of christianity. Even today there are tribes in Amazonia that have almost no contact with the outside world. Are you saying that the innocent children raised in those societies are doomed??? How can you be so crass and self-serving????

Answer 1

Well, to put it in short, if you don't accept Jesus as your personal Savior, you will not be saved.

As for the 2nd part. Our God is a fair God. He says that everyone will have a chance to hear of Him while on earth, and if after they die they've never heard of Him, they'll still have a chance.

Hope that answered your question.
God bless you.

Answer 2

trouthunter,
I am so glad that you asked this question! It is a good question. It exposes the attiude that is commonly out there and I wish tooffer a different way to percieve it.

"I have read numerous post from christians that if you don't accept Jesus then you will go to hell and be dammed for eternity."
If you do accept Jesus, you will spend an eternity blameless and with Him. Why focus on the negative when there is so much positive to be seen? I think that it is because you have no intention of accepting. But that's just my opinion.

"How do christians reconcile this with the fact that the majority of the human race is not christian.. are they all doomed?"
Yes. There is a Causality, those that do not trust the One God are doomed, born with the cards stacked against them. We all are doomed, but we have heard. You have heard and chose to hold out become someone else hasn't? Once again, you focus on the negative and won't take such a valuable gift. All because someone else has not heard.

Tell me, if you were sitting and waiting for a bus, and a guy drove up to you and said, "I want to give you this. It's a Lotto Ticket worth $40 million dollars. I am rich and do not need the money. You take it."

Would you say, " No thanks. Because the people on the bus aren't here, and it wouldn't be fair because they won't recieve the same gift." Is that what you would do?

"Additionally how do you reconcile the fact that until the 17th the 18th century the vast majority of the world had no way of even knowing of christianity."
It might have happened sooner if it wasn't for all the persecution that Chirstians went through before that. Even here the resistance is common. After all, there are people who have been exposed to the Gospel, who reject it because someone else hasn't heard it.

"Are you saying that the innocent children raised in those societies are doomed??? How can you be so crass and self-serving????"
It is not something that I wrote, but it is a revelation of God. He owns it all. It's His planet, His universe. I didn't tell Him what to do with it. He makes His own decisions.

It has always been common thought with Judaism and Christianity -- most people that have ever lived will not trust Jesus. Most. Why? Ask yourself why.

Answer 3

Don't have to reconcile anything. I never heard any Christian say that innocent children are going to Hell. Its not true and its not biblical. You need to get your theology straight before you make claims to knowing what logic is. Right now the only one I can see as doomed is yourself and your not looking too innocent are you? If you took the time to know Christ you would see the provision that God has made to ensure that justice and mercy are a part of His plan. If I were in "Amazonia" and never heard of Christ but God revealed to me before I died that He was the one that created the world and I put my trust in Him to care for my soul do you not see the revelation of Christ in that? It was by Him and through Him that the worlds were fashioned and although many may not know Jesus by name I am quite certain that in essence God the Father reveals the Son to all that respond to the light within the soul. Your total lack of spiritual understanding is amazing. How can you be so crass and self-serving????

Answer 4

If a person has heard the gospel of Christ and rejected it, they will go to hell. We are all born on our way to hell, but Jesus through His grace provided a way to heaven if we will just believe and accept Him. Jesus is not sending anyone to hell. Our own sinful nature does that. He provided an escape from it. The people of the Old Testament are also saved by His grace because the cross stood in the midst of time. Those before were saved by believing the grace of the cross as a future event and we are saved by believing it as a past event. All must look to the cross. Almost all Christians believe that children are not held accountable for their sins until they are old enough to distinquish what is sin. Consequently, the children of the societies you mentioned, would not be doomed until they were old enough to understand right from wrong. If we all came from Adam & Eve and from Noah, who were believers of God, then every society that does not worship God turned away from Him at some time in the past. Moral of the story; Be careful what you do, because it effects more people than just you.

Answer 5

Not all of us say everyone is going to Hell if they don't do this or that. Some of us have actually read the Bible, and know that it says the word will be printed on the hearts and minds of all. Therefore even if someone doesn't know about God or Jesus, or our religion, and even if someone doesn't believe they still have a chance to go to Heaven (if it exists) because what is written in our hearts and minds is what is right and wrong, good and bad. Anyone can pick between the two. Although you may not find this cute, I have to add it, "Jesus loves the HELL out of you"

Answer 6

How is it self-serving to admit a truth that you have no control over? I didn't create the universe or write the rules--like you, I'm just living under them. If I were to say, Driving fast increases your risk of a fatal crash, would you say I'm crass and judgemental? If someone in Amazonia didn't know that smoking would hurt their lungs would it be unkind to tell them, or wrong to believe it just because they didn't know? Or would the compassionate thing be to tell them? Look at it this way: the blood of Christ is totally enough for everybody's sins. But not everybody is willing to admit they need that, so they won't accept the gift. As for Amazonians, I don't know what God will do with them, but I know it will be just. The Bible does say that creation reveals God, so those that reject him are without excuse. Everybody gets a chance.

Answer 7

Crass and self-serving? We don't make the rules ya know. I have my own theories, but they're simply theories. I do know that children under the age of being able to make their own decisions are not condemned. The tribes of the Amazon have been contacted, you're a few years behind times. I personally think, not fact, just my own opinion, that those who had no knowledge of God or Jesus will have a chance before judgment. It's the ones who did know, and purposely rejected Him who He will reject, as is only fair. As for Hitler, the possibility that he actually repented exists, but remember, repenting has to be done truthfully and honestly, not just out of fear of hell. No one on earth knows if he did that, but what we do know is leaders who lead their people astray will suffer more after judgment than those who rejected Him without hurting others. They will all suffer, but not the same. Of course, if you're not a christian, what do you care?

Answer 8

Yeah, even though Christianity is the world's largest practiced religion, still loads of people don't practice it. I used to be a very spiritual christian, but recently I've been "slipping" so-to-speak. Yet not everyone is doomed, because "heathens" (people who are NOT ackowledged of Christians' god), are not to be punished, but not to be rewarded as well (if I can remember...it's been a few years.) And also, children, as it states in the bible, automatically recieve entrance into heaven because they cannot intillectually make a life decision until a coming of age...a relize-ation I suppose, so those innocent Amazonian heathens, I suspect, will not be doomed.

Answer 9

I f you read the Orthodox replies carefully you would see that there is no "doom" for disbelievers

You answered your own question

People who live outside the knowledge of Jesus have no reason to even think of Jesus.. Someone has to tell them about Him.. Until then they can believe to whatever they like.. but the only difference is that they won't be with God after Death...

they will just be separated from God or according to their believes even have the right to be with God.. If there religion teaches Love and forgiveness and self-sacrifice they will surely live at a better place.

The whole human non-christian race will only be separated from God after death if only they Know about Jesus and do not accept him.

It is very simple.. Before Christ there was no pathway to God.. The punishment for sin was death ( separation from God ). This is the greatest of pain. "Hell". Jesus felt in on the cross but he had to die in order to restore the Law.. taking the Sins of the world would clean it from them., giving a chance to people to choose if they wanted to be with God.

The Jews sacrificed a goat to cleanse israel from its sins.. that passover though jesus took that place for the whole world.. There is nothing supernatural about it..

This is the pathway, free will.. . Knowing Jesus is the pathway there is no other excuse when dealing with this "doom" matter

Answer 10

If you have he opportunity to accept Jesus but refuse that chance, you will be doomed to Hell. But on the other hand, if you have never heard of Jesus but you have lived your life living up to what you know to be right and good, it would have to be a very sadistic God that would condemn them to Hell. No, as He says, at this ignorance, He winks at but when they do learn of it and then still reject it, that is when they will not have a chance any more at Heaven. The bible predicts that there will be more that do not accept Jesus than will. Wide is the path that leads to destruction and many there will be that find it, but narrow is the path that leads to righteousness and few there be that find it.

Answer 11

If someone has never had the opportunity to hear about Christ, they aren't doomed. When a baby dies, it goes to heaven. It has never had the opportunity, obviously to learn about Jesus Christ and to accept Him as Lord and Savior. Same goes for those Amazonian tribes you mentioned. If they've never heard of Christ, how can they accept Him? It's the people who have heard the Word and refuse to believe who need to worry. Do a google search on the subject. You will find plenty of explanations that are better than I could do in a few lines on Yahoo Answers.