Like Indians before Missionaries got there.
2006-12-01 03:10:47 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Interesting question. People who have NOT heard of Jesus, like the indians that you so name are not necissarly doomed to hell. They will be judged according to the revelations that they have had, those in nature and those moral laws handed down to them.
For instance, it is universal that murder is wrong, etc... Christ died for all sins. THE GOOD WORKS DONE IN FAITH will be credited as BELIEF in Christ. The same as it was credited for Abraham.
I hope that helps.
Try listening to R.C. Sproul www.ligonier.org
2006-12-01 03:16:13 · answer #1 · answered by TK421 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
An excellent question - Using the Bible as authority, I would point you to Romans chapter 1. It talks about how God reveals Himself through the things that are made, so that no one can have an excuse that they didn't know about Him. And He has promised that if anyone will seek Him, they will find Him. Since Jesus is God the Son, joined to the Godhead, He must have a way of communicating Himself to those who genuinely seek Him. I have read of tribes who were already worshipping an unknown God, who had a Son, before Christian missionaries even showed up.
2006-12-01 11:22:46 · answer #2 · answered by John 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God has provided for everyone's salvation. That is why the good news is being preached throughout the whole inhabited earth and there is to be a resurrection of the righteous and the unrighteous (the unrighteous being those who didn't have an opportunity to choose God's way for any reason). Also, a hell of firey torment is NOT a Bible teaching--it is based on a misunderstanding of scripture. Read Jeremiah 7:31.
2006-12-01 11:19:20 · answer #3 · answered by Sparkle1 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The Bible teaches that "God is love". The punishment for sin is death. Romans6:23: "the wages sin pays is death," Romans 6:7 says " He who has died has been acquitted from sin." Roman's 3:23 says: For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God." Since God is love, is eternal torment of the wicked (or those who do not know God) compatible with God's personality?
Jeremiah 7:31 says: "they (apostate Judeans) have built the high places of Topeth, which is in the valley of the son of Himmon, in order to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire, a thing that I had not commanded and that had not come up into my heart." (If it never came into God's heart, surely he does not have and use such a thing on a larger scale.)
Illustration: What would you think of a parent who held his child's hand over a fire to punish the child for wrongdoing? GOD IS LOVE Would he do what no right-minded human parent would do? Certainly not!
The origin of the teaching of hellfire came from ancient Babylonian and Assyrian beliefs;;;"nether world is pictured as a place full of horrors and is presided over by gods and demons of great strength and fierceness."
Early evidence of the fiery aspect of Christiandom's hell is found also in the religion of ancient Egypt. There are other influences as well.
But the real roots of this God-dishonoring doctrine go much deeper. The fiendish concepts associated with a hell of torment slander God and originate with the chief slanderer of God (the Devil, which means "Slanderer"), the one whom Jesus Christ called "the father of the lie" (John 8:44)
2006-12-01 12:00:26 · answer #4 · answered by wannaknow 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Bible says 2 things. Jesus died for ALL sins, everyone. And that the sin you cant be forgiven for, the one that can keep you out of heaven is rejecting Christ. SO.....
Having no knowledge of it, never having a chance to hear the story is not rejection. And since ALL sins of everyman have been paid for, it would stand to reason that people without knowledge would be judged, and could make it into heaven.
2006-12-01 11:15:39 · answer #5 · answered by sweetie_baby 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The word is being preached everywhere. God tells us that He is not coming back until the word has gone out into all nations.
Galatians 3:8
And the Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the gospel beforehand to Abraham, saying, "In you shall all the nations be blessed."
2006-12-01 11:20:29 · answer #6 · answered by Mandolyn Monkey Munch 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No, if someone has never heard of Him or His teachings, God will take care of them. Just like the small children who tragically pass away in accidents and don't fully understand the concept of accepting Jesus as their Lord and Savior. He will take care of them.
2006-12-01 11:22:08 · answer #7 · answered by babiangel 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, there are a few places in the bible that would suggest that they do get doomed to hell and there are other places in the bible that would suggest that they do not. That they get forgiven for there “ignorance”. Interesting how an all know book like that contradicts itself constantly.
2006-12-01 11:16:16 · answer #8 · answered by A 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Nope. The bible speaks of a resurrection of the righteous and the unrighteous. That would mean to include anyone whose never heard of God - they would get a chance to believe.
2006-12-01 11:15:26 · answer #9 · answered by CHRISTINA 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋
no, the message of Christ transcends the physical world. it's a spiritual redemption, one that the soul can realize exigent of material existence
2006-12-01 11:17:04 · answer #10 · answered by Super G 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋