Christians can you answer this question about Jesus and native peoples??

Question

What happens to people who have never been taught about Chritianity or Jesus? Do they go to hell because they don't accept Jesus as their savior?

Answer 1

I believe that native people in the jungles who don't hear about the Gospel will go to hell. But don't blame God, blame God's servants. He wants these people to go to heaven, that's why He ordered His followers to go and preach the gospel. But sadly, specially these days, most of God's followers aren't keen to going into the jungle to preach the gospel. They would rather just sit in their pews and make up ideas about an intercessor to make themselves feel good inside about not preaching the gospel.

Think about it... if a native guy who hasn't heard the gospel can be justified and go to heaven, then let's stop preaching the gospel all together. if we go there and preach, there's an off chance that he might not believe, then he'll go to hell. he'd be better off not hearing about God at all.

so, my fellow Christians, the command to preach the gospel is not optional. it's urgent. people are dying without the grace of God out there and if they go to hell, don't blame God. They'll go to hell because of our lazyness and our disobediance. we are the ones responsible. it is our duty to reach these people, and it is our duty to not make God look unfair.

Answer 2

Explicitly rejecting Jesus is the really bad thing, as you are barring yourself from grace, and the offer of grace would seem to only extend, for those people who have heard the gospel, through this earthly life.
It would be unfair for God to judge those who had not been given the opportunity, so He must somehow give them the option before the last judgement. Its not revealed in the New Testament how He does that.

Answer 3

You remember that tunnel near-death folks talk about? And the light they see at its end?

That light is Jesus in all His glory, welcoming the soul and saying, "Come. Follow Me." If they can look at Him in all His glory and majesty and say "No" then they deserve to go far, far away from Him.

I don't expect there's too many folks who've never heard of Him by now and as for those who lived in the times before He came and in the places before word got around, well, they got the same welcome and the same opportunity.

Remember, He said, "I, if I be lifted up (a known euphemism for crucifixion) will lift ALL men unto Me." Now either He's a liar and a con artist, or He's a nut case, or He's the Son of God and what He says, goes.

The only people who won't make it to heaven are the ones who don't WANT to go!

Answer 4

I asked that same question when I first became a Christian. I was told about a man who knew there was a God and prayed to him every day but had never heard of Christians. One day some missionaries came to the area and as they talked to him he realized they were talking about the same God he knew, even to being aware of Jesus. It seems God can make Himself known to those who really want to know Him, especially in areas that have never heard of Jesus. Isn't that just like an all knowing God? Hmmmm

Answer 5

There is nothing in scripture that talks about intercessors or the like. Christ is clear in scripture (John 14:6) "Jesus answered, 'I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." It is unfortunate and tragic to hear that one who hasn't heard the gospel is lost to eternal hell, but we are doomed by our nature of sinfulness. This is all the more reason why Christians need to be ever vigilant to share the good news with everyone who can hear it.

Be careful of answers that are created by man, scripture should be the overwhelming and irrevocable authority of truth to a Christian. It declares itself to be so.

Also remember that God chooses us. That does not negate the need for active witnesses in our world, but... "For by grace you have been saved through faith, not of works, lest anyone should boast. For we are His workmanship created in Christ Jesus to do good works which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them." (Eph 2:8-10)

Answer 6

Your incorrect. Europeans who left large Britian had to flee that form of rule and explanation why u . s . of america is ran the way its ran in freedom of religion. Europeans at that element did not have a large draw close of religion. they did not rigidity the natives and the africans to income, they simply adapt and slowly took it as their own. as properly, i'm not one those Africans, i'm an ancestor of them and that i pick to have self assurance what i prefer. i will hardly ever indentify myself as an African that strongly believes in that simply by fact i've got been born in u . s . of america. If something, could the two race in u . s . of america resign Jesus, that could desire to be the question. i don't have a faith and that i'm not sure if there's a God. yet i be responsive to if I proceed to stay my existence in an excellent and helpful way, i be responsive to i could be ok.

Answer 7

Romans 1:20 says that God will provide a way for everyone to know Him in some capacity. What matters is whether you pursue that knowledge.

Answer 8

Well the way I understand it is that if someone who has never experienced any teachings of God and/or Jesus simply believes that there is a God (the key being ONE God, Creator of all) then they will go to heaven.

Answer 9

No. Our pastor explained this one a long tome ago. At the time of death an intecessor will be brought to them and they will be given the knowledge and the choice at that time to accept Christ before judgement.

Answer 10

There's a place in Romans that says something about those not having heard have a "law' of their own. They indistinctly know right from wrong and will be judged by that.
If you really want to know that passage e-mail and I'll look it up.
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