If your God says that people who haven't heard about Him are off the hook, then in the knowledge that some if not most would reject the news were you to tell them, why tell them?
Please think about this.
According to your beliefs, by proseletyzing you are putting innocent people in to a position where they are in danger of going to Hell.
If Christians never told another person about their beliefs, within a few generations, nobody would know about them, and no one would be accountable, so everyone would go to heaven!!!
So shut up and save souls!
2007-08-19 13:02:58 · 27 answers · asked by The Dog Abides 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Sometimes.
Sometimes the people who heard it over and over, and rejected it over and over, get punished worse.
Just a little something to thing about before I shut up.
2007-08-19 13:09:51 · answer #1 · answered by Notfooled 4 · 1⤊ 3⤋
That is not so.
God never said in the scriptures that those who never hear about him are exempt from judgment. That would compromise God's perfect justice system.
Every man, woman, child *must* be judged by a righteous, holy God. All sins every committed in history must be judged and punished accordingly and balance scales of justice must reach equilibrium.
The reason why Christians are exempt from judgment is because Jesus paid for their sins in full by suffering God's wrath on their behalf as their perfect substitute.
To sum things up, no sin ever committed in this world goes unpunished even if one never heard about God's redemption plan.
2007-08-19 13:20:04 · answer #2 · answered by Archangel 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Hypothetically, that's how it works. Unfortunately, no one has been able to prove the existence of this particular god, so my guess is they can talk all they want to, no body is going to hell regardless of whether or not they reject Jesus or this god character.
Oh, don't mind the mindless that keep telling you they're charged with spreading the word, obviously the logic is lost on them.
2007-08-19 13:37:51 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
"If your God says that people who haven't heard about Him are off the hook"
I don't find that idea in the Bible. What I do find in the Bible is the notion that if someone rejects Jesus after hearing about Him and how He worked miracles and rose from the dead then they might be facing a worse judgment than if they never heard of Him.
Matthew 11:21 "Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! Because if the miracles which were done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes. 22 Nevertheless I say to you, it will be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon in the day of judgment than for you. 23 And you, Capernaum, the one having been exalted to heaven, you will be brought down to Hades; because if the miracles which were done in you had been done in Sodom, it would have remained to this day. 24 But I say to you that it will be more tolerable for the land of Sodom in the day of judgment than for you."
Matthew 12:38 Then some of the scribes and Pharisees answered, saying, "Teacher, we wish to see a sign from You." 39 But He answered and said to them, "An evil and adulterous generation seeks after a sign, and no sign will be given to it except the sign of the prophet Jonah. 40 For just as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the great fish, so will the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth. 41 The men of Nineveh shall stand up in the judgment with this generation and shall condemn it, because they repented at the preaching of Jonah; and behold, a greater than Jonah is here. 42 The queen of the South shall rise up in the judgment with this generation and she shall condemn it, because she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and behold, a greater than Solomon is here.
Jesus is the way, the truth, and the life. Instead of being like a person trapped on the 5th floor of a burning building who wants to argue with the fireman on the ladder at the window who is telling them that he represents the only safe way out, why don't you just take the way before it's too late?
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2007-08-19 13:16:12 · answer #4 · answered by Martin S 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Do you really think christians give a flip about anyone's neck aside from their own? They not only do not care, but seem to take a perverse delight in pointing the finger at the infidel and pronouncing the sentence to hell. You cannot talk sense to people who believe in a sky daddy, heaven, hell, and all the rest of that nonsense. You are trying to be rational with irrational people.
AEN
2007-08-19 13:16:37 · answer #5 · answered by Grendel's Father 6 · 2⤊ 2⤋
God doesn't say that people who don't know are off the hook. Rather, they are judged by what they did, not what they know. Sin is dealt with at the Judgment Seat, and people are punished.
No one will have an excuse. If they do know about Jesus, and have rejected Him, and the gift He bought with His blood on the cross, they will have even less of an excuse.
This is what Paul says about it: "Indeed, when Gentiles, who do not have the law, do by nature things required by the law, they are a law for themselves, even though they do not have the law, since they show that the requirements of the law are written on their hearts, their consciences also bearing witness, and their thoughts now accusing, now even defending them." (Romans 2:14-15)
2007-08-19 13:12:10 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 3⤋
Jesus said if no one spoke, then the stones would cry out. God will make sure that people hear the good news some how. You have to be given the option and make a choise.
Also there is no hell. Only death with the possibility of resurection or without.
2007-08-19 13:13:47 · answer #7 · answered by Booster Gold 5 · 0⤊ 4⤋
Everyone is born in sin and is in danger of eternal damnation, whether they know it or not. Christ will delay his coming until all the world has heard the gospel. God never said that people who don't know about him are off the hook. Where did you get an idea like that?
2007-08-19 13:11:13 · answer #8 · answered by Karen O 2 · 1⤊ 3⤋
If we didn't proclaim the truth then the rocks would cry out to the glory of God.
The gospel cannot be stopped. It is the Word of the Creator of everything that is.
2007-08-19 13:23:25 · answer #9 · answered by hisgloryisgreat 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Dont be absurd. People will be held accountable for what they did with Jesus Christ whether or not they heard it from YOU, or me. God says we are all without excuse.
People are BORN going to hell. It is what they do with the information about the Cross that gives them the alternative to hell, by the GIFT offered by God thru faith in the finished work of Christ.
All you have to do to go to hell is NOTHING.
SO, I will keep tellin people til the day I die. Im not responsible for what they decide to do with the information, but I am responsible to be faithful to God with HIS message of reconciliation. We who know Him are HIS AMBASSADORS, telling folks to "be reconciled to God"
2007-08-19 13:11:23 · answer #10 · answered by goinupru 6 · 1⤊ 3⤋
I find it quite interesting that even when offered religious beliefs that do not have an equivalent of Hell, or have reincarnations, Christians cling to their Hell.
2007-08-19 13:14:04 · answer #11 · answered by Terry 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋