A question for Christians?

Question

If you lived your life loving people and living a perfect moral life and seeked God,but never saw a Bible or heard of Christ,would you go to hell?

Answer 1

We can't be good enough or moral enough to get into heaven without Christ. The gift of Salvation is a free gift from God. It can't be earned. Since this doesn't apply to any one in this country or even in most countries, I would say you would go to hell. However, God makes Himself known to all so we all get a chance to know Christ.

Answer 2

I think that it is a desire in all of us to seek God. That is something that we cannot push away and it is there for a reason.

We all have different moral standards right? Ones morals could be lower than another right?

We need a set of morals set by God to determine where we will stand.

If you live a just life you will not go to hell but you will whether in this life or the next have to accept the truth of the Gospel.

There will always be that ? in you mind, where do we come from?
What is the point of good and evil?
There are 2 things that are sure we die and there is a God.

It is said in the book of Mormon that those who read and ask God having faith in Christ will recieve a answer through the manifestation of the holy ghost.

Good luck

Answer 3

I don't think any person ever, except Jesus, has lived a perfect moral life.
eg Does anyone really love God with all their heart, soul and mind, the 1st commandment in the Sinai dispensation?

People can have vague inchoate ideas of God, when nothing better is available, or they don't have access to the bible, as is the case in some countries. Perhaps faith towards those vague ideas will mean that just after death, they will be presented with Christ, and will readily believe. I certainly hope so.

However, we christians should be trying to get the gospel message preached everwhere so people can see the full light of God's love, grace and free salvation given through faith. Not that we are of ourselves light. Jesus is the light. He will be rejected by many, but those who believe can become children of God (John 1).

Answer 4

You have to look at the basis of what type of people hell were made for. "Hell" was made for those types of persons that have rejected Christ. If God, and this is a "big" human if, were to not give someone the opportunity to accept or deny Christ, that person could not be judged. Only because they did not get the opportunity to make a decision. If you make a conscious decision to say no to God's way of salvation, then hell becomes your only option. Even though you were good, moral and right....that's not enough to enter heaven. The only way is through Christ. Choose him - Heaven, deny him - hell.

Hope this helps!

Answer 5

No, absolutely not. If said person had no knowledge of the Christ or the bible yet sought a god then he would definitely go to heaven.

See Acts 17:23-31


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For as I walked around looking carefully at your shrines, I even discovered an altar inscribed, 'To an Unknown God.' Whom therefore you unknowingly worship, I proclaim to you.
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The God who made the world and all that is in it, the Lord of heaven and earth, does not dwell in sanctuaries made by human hands,
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nor is he worshipped by human hands, as though he needs anything. Rather it is he who gives to everyone life and breath and everything.
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He made from one the whole human race to dwell on the entire surface of the earth, and he fixed the ordered seasons and the boundaries of their regions,
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so that people might seek God, even perhaps yearn for him and find him, though indeed he is not far from any one of us.
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For 'In him we live and move and have our being,' as even some of your poets have said, 'For we too are his offspring.'
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Since therefore we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the divinity is like an image fashioned from gold, silver, or stone by human art and imagination.
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God has overlooked the times of ignorance, but now he demands that all people everywhere repent
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because he has established a day on which he will 'judge the world with justice' through a man he has appointed, and he has provided confirmation for all by raising him from the dead."

Answer 6

Only God can answer that. But, this might help.

In Romans, you read that man was given the Law from the beginning. Some choose to follow it, and some do not. That's why you have people who never heard of God, but live peaceful, moral and productive lives.

So, God will take into consideration those who live good lives and never heard about Him. How much consideration? We don't know.

BUT, if you have heard about God, and you REJECT Him, then He will reject you.

That is why Jesus said "it is better for man to never hear the Word of God, than a man who has heard and has turned away."

Answer 7

I have never seen anyone who lived a perfect moral life, myself included, so your question can't really be answered.

The only person who lived a perfect moral life on earth was Jesus Christ. Jesus said that He is the only way to God. But God is a loving God who does not want anyone to go to hell.

When a person truly seeks God, God will bring him the revelation of Jesus as seen in the example of Cornelius in Acts 11:13-14: "He told us how he had seen an angel appear in his house and say, ‘Send to Joppa for Simon who is called Peter. He will bring you a message through which you and all your household will be saved.’"

I have heard several stories of Muslim people to whom Jesus revealed Himself in dreams, and they then believed in Him and followed him, despite severe persecution as a result of their faith in Jesus.

Answer 8

There's no such thing as a "perfect moral life" without Christ. He expects perfection of us in order to get into heaven. How do we attain this perfection? By believing in His name, and accepting His atoning sacrifice on the cross.

Apart from this, there is no way to enter heaven.

... But then again, America must be right! What does God know? He only told us these things.

Answer 9

If you truly seek God, the Creator of this world (and not some idol), God would see to it that the Gospel would be presented to you at some time. If this "moral person" then rejected the Gospel, then they would be in danger of Hell.
Abraham never heard the name "Jesus Christ" or heard the Gospel as we know it today, but he obeyed God, and it was "credited to him for righteousness."

Answer 10

Yes, because man is sinful and there is no possible way that a man could life a perfect life. The punishment for sin is death and eternal separation from God. The only one capable of living the life you described is Jesus Christ.