Born again Christians-- Will all people have the chance to accept Christ?

Question

Honestly, can you tell me that every single person the world will have the chance to accpet Christ? Think about the countries in the middle east where Christ's name can't be mentioned. Or the communist countries where Christianity has never been preached, and they do exist. You actually claim that everyone will be able to hear and understand who Christ is? If this is possible please explain. Also, even if you claim everyone in our time period will, what about all the people through the 18th and 19th century when your Christianity hadn't even touched the East, thousands of people were dying. Did the Word reach all of them? If so, how? Please give actual docrtine not just opinions.

Interesting answers. I would have enjoyed a bit more doctrine instead of personal opinion. I just wonder how many of the Christian were born into Christianity, and if they had not been would they have accepted it? Who's to say, I beleive that Christ is just and I think the Peter in his general epistle wrote some about Christ preaching the people that inhabited the world in Noah's day.

Answer 1

I was never given the chance to accept Christ, because salvation does not work that way. Faith is given, not taken, or authorized, or claimed as something that we have a right to. God alone has that prerogative, to choose his own from before the foundations of the world, no part of salvation depends on us. We simply respond to God's effectual call.

Answer 2

I believe all people will have a chance to accept Jesus. The gospel will have to be preached to all the world before Jesus comes again. Mark 16:15, commands the Christians to go out into all the world and preach the gospel. The real believers are doing such, there are missionaries risking their own lives to take the gospel to others, and those who may not been able to get reached, I believe the Lord would send angels out to send the good news. There is nothing too difficult for the Lord....God himself appeared to Paul, and Paul was guilty of persecuting Christians, but got saved by the Lord's mighty grace.

Answer 3

There are very few places on earth that Christianity hasn't been preached. I believe that almost all people at some point in their life will be told about the gospel of JEsus. Even in atheist countries, there are missionaries that are willing to risk their life in order to preach the gospel.

As for aboriginal people that may have never have contact with someone to teach them about Jesus, it is possible that Jesus will go to them in some way or another.

My husband was telling me about a Buddhist that had never heard of Jesus at all. Jesus came to him in a vision. From this experience, not someone telling him, he went out and found a Bible and became a CHristian.

Answer 4

I'm sure missionaries are trying to spread the message of Jesus. I was speaking to members of frontiers some time ago. They told me they are going into Afghanistan, surrounded by the Taliban, to speak about Jesus and their people are at the borders of Sudan. Bande Ache before the Tsunami did not allow Christians inside but now the door has opened for them to help and tell them about Jesus. The same thing happened in Bam. If I wasn't standing with my both feet on the ground I'd call this miracles.

Answer 5

We read in John 3:16 that Christ died for all people. Knowing that, he would not have died to cover the sins of those who could not accept him. Therefore, salvation is offered freely to all.

But, as you say, how can this be if they do not know the name of Jesus? Imagine that having the entire Bible and a very holy person there to help you understand it. This would be like standing in the bright sunlight. You could see very clearly, if you accepted it. But what if you only saw by the moonlight? You might be able to make out some things and get where you were trying to go, but it would be more difficult.

Finding God without knowing his name is very difficult, and it is impossible without God's grace. Thank goodness he gives his grace to all people and wants everyone to know him! If an ancient Aztec who started to wonder about their religion of human sacrifice started to think that was wrong... and started to think that there could only be one God by his own reason... and started to love that God that he did not know the name... He would be praying to the good Lord Jesus Christ, and he could be saved. Even the Greeks before Jesus came to realize that God had to be one, perfect, holy, and genderless- even though their culture taught them differently [Republic, Plato].

And, you know how the Bible says you have to be baptized to be saved? In theology, there is more than one baptism, too. The baptism of water is the normal kind, but there is also a baptism of desire. Say the Aztec king wanted to be born again and have his sins washed away- but he had no idea about the water. If he prayed for the same effects of a baptism, he could be baptized by his desire! Same goes for the thief on the cross next to Jesus, who couldn't exactly come down from the cross to get baptized. There is also another baptism, called the baptism of blood, where people who truly loved God and could not be baptized gain salvation by their martyrdom, like in the Roman Arena.

The requirements, though, for someone to have had the baptism of desire is that they must have been really worshiping the true God, just without his name, and they must have been righteous in their life, and they must have not rejected water baptism when it was offered to them.

Answer 6

What actually happens to those who have not heard the gospel depends upon several factors.
It depends first of all (but not finally) on how they have responded to God's general revelation. In the case of those who have neglected or rejected such general revelation (no doubt the case with the vast majority of those who have never heard of Christ), they're lost, condemned to a real hell. But note--they are not condemned for what they haven't heard. They are judged for what they have heard and rejected. In this sense, as R.C. Sproul rightly states, "there are no innocent people in the world."
In the case, however, of the one who has never heard of Christ, yet sincerely worships God as he knows Him, and lives consistently with law. as he understands it, we do have some grounds to believe that God may be pleased to grant a further special revelation involving the Gospel of Christ Himself, which one would then, in turn, either accept or reject. Exactly how or when would God arrange for such a further revelation? Might somehow correlate with bible here? The Scripture allows many such details to remain hidden, while being unequivocal about the fact that God will judge with perfect justice . Could this be what is happening today?
Does all this detail somehow seem trivial to you? Be certain that it is not! In fact, this subject in all of its related subtlety is absolutely critical. Among other things, for instance, correct Biblical exegesis on this subject provides an unequaled incentive for the continued Christian mission of proclaiming the gospel of jesus to the ends of the earth. As the bible says,
"How then shall they call upon Him in whom they have not believed? And how shall they believe in Him whom they have not heard? And how shall they hear without a preacher?"

Answer 7

All people will, alive or passed on, during Christ reign on Earth for 1000 years...then there's no excuse....smile

Rev..20:6 Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection: on such the second death hath no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years.
20:7 And when the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison,
20:8 And shall go out to deceive the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to battle: the number of whom is as the sand of the sea.

Those that STILL follow satan, deserve to walk in the Lake of Fire..after seeing Christ, DE-FACTO.

Answer 8

It is also important to think about they way some people are exposed to the name and teachings of Christ. If some so-called Christians invade your country, make atrocities there and then they tell you that their religion is the way, obviously you will be (the least to say) uninterested.

Answer 9

well missionaries can go and tell them about christ. and in the East and on the communists parts their are missionaries there giving their life so those people can be saved well people from the east had to know about it cause it all started around there in Israel.

Answer 10

God has made a way for every human ever born, miscarried or aborted. No person will be able to stand at judgment and say they were not given a chance. God is fair-but He is also just.