What happens to these people after they die?

Question

What happens when these people die:

1) infant child who was never exposed to Christianity

2) Person who grew up in another culture and never had a chance to hear about Jesus - perhaps a tribe member in a jungle of south america or on a remote uncharted island.

3) A Christian, who, at the time of their death, is going through a crisis of faith and is uncertain, despite a lifetime of faithfulness.

Any thoughts on these questions? What would be the fate of their souls? Heaven? Hell? Purgatory? Some other fate?

Answer 1

I think all the above will go to heaven. God judges with his heart. Man is the worst ones to judge...we are suppose to try to get over that..

Answer 2

I tell ya the only one I am uncertain about is the tribal type person who hasn't heard about Jesus. The infant Child is saved for sure. I believe a person has to have a chance to actually realize they need Jesus and the infant child is really not aware of much really. Cognative thought is not there yet. Now the Christian that is uncertain, well that may be a normal emotional process. Many Christians have doubtful periods of their faith. If the person was a geniune Christian they are going to heaven. If the person never was a genuine Christian but merely a religious person then they may not go to Heaven

Answer 3

Good questions...
1) I believe there is an age of accountability. A child who is too young to understand is not held accountable.
2) Everyone will have a chance to know God. All cultures have a need to worship, whether it be nature, themselves, or money... everyone has an idol. With that innate need to find a higher...something, people will search out the truth. God says in Jeremiah 29:11-13 that when we search with all our heart He WILL be found. I had a friend who grew up in Northern Africa. Never met a Christian, but had a pressing need to find something outside of Islam. She started searching and it was revealed to her in dreams until she was so bothered by it that she prayed out to "an unknown god" and through that she found the truth. Of course not everyone will share that same kind of story, but people of all walks of life and in all cultures will have a chance to find the one true God.
3)Once a Christian, always a Christian. Everyone has doubts, it would be unwise to blindly follow without questioning, and being certain. If a person completely denies Christ in the end, he/she most likely never truely new God.

I have never found any reference to purgatory in the scriptures. Jesus turns to the theif next to him on the cross at the very last and says, today you will be in with my in the kingdom. He doesn't say, first you have to go make up for all the bad things you've done in pergutary. Christ sacrafice was a free gift to all, we can do nothing to earn it. All we can do is accept it.

Answer 4

1. Into the arms of Jesus.
2. that is a question, that I have often asked.
3. the answer to #3 is to be with Jesus. his crisis is over.
As for Purgatory, there is no Purgatory, a Christian goes straight to be with Jesus in paridise. Purgatory is a place the catholics have drumed up. It is no mystery where a Christian goes.

Answer 5

Depends what your beliefs are.... You will get some conflicting answers on this one.I was raised a catholic and dont consider myself catholic anymore as i have the right to chose what i believe in.As does everyone. Let me just say this...... Threatening people with a terrible fate and having no place to go when you die if you dont follow a particular religion is absurd to me. I,and all my loved ones will pass over into a place of love when the time comes.. even if you havent had a perfect life. Love and light to you xoxoxoxo

Answer 6

Although there is not direct reference to infants, based upon the whole of Scripture and the character of God revealed in his Word, many in the Reformed churches believe something along these lines: All infants dying in infancy are elect of God. Therefore, though they are guilty of the sin of their father and mother (Adam and Eve) by federal association, they are not guilty of personal transgression of the Law of God, and would be ushered into Heaven.

Someone who has lived, died, never come into contact with the Gospel, would be guilty of sin, both personal and original, and therefore would be condemned to eternal punishment for their willing crimes agains their Creator. There is much to support this view from the Scriptures.

Anyone who has trusted Christ will have high and low times in their lives in their faith. If they are elect of God, they will be brought back to faith and repentance. Christ never turns anyone away who turns to him.

Just a quick note:
There is no such place or dimension as Purgatory. Those who think there is, and that most folks are headed that way, either have to deceive themselves into thinking they're not all that bad, or that it won't take that long to pay for their sins, or that their sins aren't really that bad. They forget that any sin is a sin against the infinite, eternal, and unchangeable God. It is not the size of the sin, it is the rightousness of the One against whom the sin has come. How else did the simple eating of a fruit plunge all of mankind into a world of sin and misery, disease and death? Purgatory is an invention of the Medieval Roman Church to extort money from the people. It is a slap in the face of the sacrifice of Christ, and has no reasonable Scriptural support.

Answer 7

I have asked this many times and got no solid answer. According to the study I have done from the Book there is suposed to be a period after the accuser is sent away. In this period there will be a great raising of those who did not recieve the true message in order that they too may be given the choice. If you ask me this would be the better opt. You get to see all the work that the evil one has done and how bad it is before you decide where to go.

Answer 8

1. The babies are of God because they are innocence and also Christ wants us to be like a child that is innocence in sin “Mat 18:1 At the same time came the disciples unto Jesus, saying, Who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven?
Mat 18:2 And Jesus called a little child unto him, and set him in the midst of them,
Mat 18:3 And said, Verily I say unto you, Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven.
Mat 18:4 Whosoever therefore shall humble himself as this little child, the same is greatest in the kingdom of heaven. “

2. Rom 2:12 For as many as have sinned without law shall also perish without law: and as many as have sinned in the law shall be judged by the law;
Rom 2:13 (For not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified.
Rom 2:14 For when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves:
Rom 2:15 Which shew the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts the mean while accusing or else excusing one another;)
.In this verse it is clear that although the person do not know what it is in the law of God, He has put the law in their heart. In Deut 5:17 it says..” Thou shalt not kill.” Even you don't have knowledge on this verse, you will come to know that killing someone is wrong. Remember the one who will be save is the doers of the law .
The fate of these people who you said that never expose to Christianity is in the hands of God, He is the savior of all men “1Ti 4:10 For therefore we both labour and suffer reproach, because we trust in the living God, who is the Saviour of all men, specially of those that believe. “


3. If this is the scenario I think God will not allow somebody will die with uncertainty in his salvation, because God is justices He will give enough time to everyone to be just or righteous or to be filthy “Rev 22:11 He that is unrighteous, let him do unrighteousness still: and he that is filthy, let him be made filthy still: and he that is righteous, let him do righteousness still: and he that is holy, let him be made holy still” So that, in the judgment time it will give justices to the verdict of God if someone is going to hell or to heaven

Answer 9

1. Everyone goes straight to heaven Ecc 12:7, 2 Cor 5:7-8

2.They will be taught in the millennium. Eze 44:23

3. All return to GOD on death, same vs as in #1.

Hell is the "second death" which is the "lake of Fire". Rev 20:15. It does not exist till the very end of the millennium after the great white throne judgement. Then what is it to be in the lake of fire? Its simply to be turned to ashes from within, never to be anymore.

Satan's death sentence is our example.

Eze 28:18 Thou hast defiled thy sanctuaries by the multitude of thine iniquities, by the iniquity of thy traffick; therefore will I bring forth a fire from the midst of thee, it shall devour thee, and I will bring thee to ashes upon the earth in the sight of all them that behold thee.

Eze 28:19 All they that know thee among the people shall be astonished at thee: thou shalt be a terror, and never shalt thou be any more.

Gone, ashes blotted out of the book of life. Not screaming in pain for a eternity. Thats my idea of heaven listening to somebody screaming forever.

GOD says there be no more tears, Rev 21:4, so those thats blotted out will not even be remembered.

Answer 10

1) Really not clear in the Bible, but is left to the judgment of God.
2) Lost.
3) If was genuinely a Christian then heaven

Answer 11

1) Straight into the arms of Jesus.

2) Purgatory.

3) Purgatory.