what if a person throughout his life never hear about God?

Question

ok imagine a situation where in a far off island that hasn't been discovered yet,there live a colony of people.they don't know ANYthing about ANY of the world religions...so they have never heard of the concept of "God".they lead good lifestyles and don't harm one another.but they don't believe in God.it's not that they have heard of him and rejected the idea,the just haven't heard about him.u cannot say for sure either that IF they had heard about Him,they would've believed.it's a 50-50 sort of situation.they MAY have believed or they may not.

(1)will they end up in hell ?

(2)why didn't God ever give them an opportunity to learn? since no one was there to teach them (assume that they were incapable of coming up with that idea themselves)?

Answer 1

one if that was a case like that i can grantee it would be a race for every religion to send missionary's over there. id leave them in peace with there happy life's live and let be, it would prove you don't need religion to be happy and live peacefully.(atheists have proved that already)it would probably do more harm bringing religion in to them then not.

Answer 2

1) Yes and no and kind of. Depends on the religion. I prefer the Mormon's take here which is: if they never got a chance to know God he wouldn't punish them, instead they would be rewarded with the best of people when entered into heaven because they were forced to pass their tests on earth without any faith in Him. Other religions place these 'savages' in hell or purgatory or old-timey 'limbo.'
2) Good question! The explanation I would use (if I believed in God) would be: that God probably did send them a sign and they developed it into a slightly different incarnation of Him but he still accepts their tribute. For example: God wants them to know that he exists so he has a man come back from the dead with stories of heaven. Well, if contemporary religion is correct these people wouldn't have the basis of knowledge to understand what heaven really "is." So they would probably give everything a different name and meaning. But God would still be happy every time they sacrificed an opossum as long as their intentions were good. Every society has some sort of 'naturally evolved' religion when they are encountered by other cultures. Who's to say that, even though they're sometimes very different, they don't have the same root source.

Answer 3

Religions come from people representing
God. Creation comes by God's hand and is
open to all.
We truly reap what we sow. The only hell we will
ever know is the one we make.

Space travel is just around the bend. It will
require quantum leaps and that will require
moving people through time and space in
the blink of an eye.

These new technical procedures will drastically
change the way we see God, the universe and
ourselves.

Space will no longer be infinite. Time will be
exposed as just an illusion. And birth and death
will be the front and back ends of a quantum leap.

Answer 4

People that do wrong should be punished (and usually are eventually). When God puts us in a place where we can stop someone from doing evil we should. This person's punishment will be the same, however, whether you hang on to these feelings or not. You won't go to hell for feeling this way but your life on earth may be easier if you can find a way to give this anger to God. If you like a good book, try The Shack. It is complete fiction, but revolves around a main character who feels the way you do.

Answer 5

i read in a book once (a book with Christian explanations) that EVERYONE will have an opportunity to hear the word of God at some point in their life - you just may not recognize it or CHOSE to accept it. For people who live in secluded areas of the world, God's creation speaks for itself. In the book I read, some missionaries went to a very secluded part of Africa to preach the Word for the first time. The people there didn't know what was happening, all they knew was that these people were there to answer their questions. They gathered in FLOCKS, people travelled for DAYS to reach the missionaries. When they gathered all the people together, all the tribes wanted to know was more about God. The missionaries were confused, because no one had ever approached these people about God before. The tribes knew there was a higher power, they believed in God's creation - they had what we like to call 'faith' - Hebrews 11:1 (NIV) - Now faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see. That's what the tribal people had, was faith....all people have an opportunity - God gives everyone an equal opportunity to join Him in His kingdom in heaven - its our decision whether or not to let Him in. Salvation isn't something that is given to select people - God sent Jesus to die for EVERYONE so that everyone no matter what, would have an opportunity to be saved. Hope this helps - if you need more help with this, email me :)

Answer 6

As Christians we are told that we have to preach the gospel to every nation, tongue and people. But in the situation you are imaging, We must consider the Character of God. The Bible tells us that God is Love. And I believe that to be true and because of this God wants none of the children that he created to be lost. Every one of us at birth comes with a sense of morality. And if we never heard of God or the Bible we never really rejected God, Therefore God will judges us based on our morality. Because in every culture or nation people know the difference from good or bad. Even pagan religions have a sense of morality. God is doing all he can so that none of us is lost. That is part of the reason he sent His son to die for us. But above all remember God has no pleasure in the destruction of the wicked.

Answer 7

I don't believe that your experiment is valid.

1). Religion is ubiquitous. I may as well philosophize about how men would respond if the sky were pink with three moons orbiting. It's nice, and it's fun, but it's not real.

2). The knowledge of God arises internally. We have it hardwired into us (granted it's stronger in some than others), and we've found biological evidence for this by examining the brains of people.

With those two things, your entire scenario presupposes a different kind of human than the one we have in the real world, so I can't answer for that one.

However, in our world, I won't specify what happens to someone who never hears about my God. Christ said the Kingdom of God is within us, and so is Hell. What happens is beyond me, but whatever it is, it involves that person's heart, not some simple prayer or affirmation (or lack thereof).

Answer 8

Matthew 24:14 speaks of this: " And this good news of the kingdom will be preached in all the inhabited earth for a witness to all the nations; and then the end will come."

Everyone will get a chance to hear and respond to the good news of God's Kingdom, which Jesus preached and thus so should his followers in order to get a witness to "all the nations".

Answer 9

If a person never hears anything about God then he will look at their entire lives and their hearts and judge that. He is too kind and too good to send someone to hell who didn't know any better. It is true that Jesus is the only way to God but remember that Jesus is Love itself. If we love other people and don't know anything about God, I'm positive he will accept that person into Heaven.

Answer 10

They still would not have an excuse to discount a Creator God no one has, we all have the blue print of Gods hand in all of nature and the inbuilt need to yearn for Him, later we have the revelation of the Holy Scriptures.

Answer 11

The bible tells us that everyone will have a chance to hear about God before Christ returns. God doesn't want any to perish, everyone will have the chance to accept Him. This is why we have missionaries, to go out and preach to all the nations just as we are told to do. No one will be able to claim lack of knowledge.