How is it right that people who never even hear of Christianity (such as those in tribes) will go to hell?

Question

I mean if they never hear of god and Jesus then isn't that like God automatically sending people to hell.

Answer 1

God is slow to anger and is plentiful in mercies. He will never condemn ignorant people for not knowing Him but rather this is why He created the Day of the Lord, on this day people who hadn't the chance to accept His free gift of eternal life will get the chance to make a free will decision on which side to take, Jesus or devil. When you choose Him, all will be forgiven but if not, you'll be judged based on your works on earth.

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Answer 2

I don't know who started this rumour but they are very mistaken.Every single person created by God is entitled to have the reward promised by God as long as they lead a good life.That's why He created them. Being a non Christian does not automatically send you to Hell. God even said that pagans now have the right to get to Heaven.

EDIT......For those Christians who say there is no Hell ,or Hell is not a place of torment.Consider this ....

When the Blessed Virgin appeared to the three children at Fatima in 1916,she showed them a vision of Hell which they said was the most horrible place they could ever imagine..If you don't believe in Mary's apparitions then you don't believe in God.You have to have faith for both of them.Besides there are too many well respected and documented apparitions to dismiss as fantasy or misguided spiritual fervour.

I hope you don't think Mary was lying about this, do you?

Answer 3

The innocent such as infants, little children and even adults who never knew the truth shall be saved without repentence or baptism. Sin is the breaking of the commandments of God and the innocent or ignorant cannot break anything they never heard.

Some believe infants must be baptized, yet how many infants have died before being baptized? Would a just and merciful God send a baby to hell just because it was not baptized?
This belief is a solemn mockery to the grace and justice of God and those who believe such way are in danger of hell themselves.

It is only the accountable who willfully rebel against the commandments of God and die in thier sins who will be sent to hell.

Answer 4

Its people who have heard the gospel and reject it who are going to miss out on grace, for sure.

One of the letters in the New Testament says that Jesus preached the gospel to some sinners from past ages (after resurrection) so saving them since there was no real salvation message when they lived, and also that He took the Old Testament 'faithful' back to heaven with Him. So I think we can be sure He will be thoroughly fair with people who have not had a chance to hear the message.

As for those who have been given distorted perceptions of the gospel, and so have had their minds poisoned so they avoid it, I cannot say. God alone knows when a person is culpable or not. But we should all strive to get right with God, since we don't have an infinite time to investigate and respond.

Answer 5

There is no hell; the Bible describes only of a state of unconsciousness between physical death and a time of rebirth in to a newly refurbished world. All that waffle about hell is a myth promoted by Christians who plainly have never read or learned the Bible and listen, instead, to uneducated clerics.

As for those who died before the arrival of Jesus and the proliferation of the word of God, the Bible explains about circumcision of the heart. In essence, a scriptual demonstration of a concept most people understand by nature. Those who have met truly decent people who are not Christians will understand how it works; just as a great many atheists manage to live by standards which would probably meet with the approval of God, so those who lived and died before the knowledge of God became available will get their chance to live in the post-armageddon new order.

At least according to the Bible :o)

Answer 6

Well I don't have a source of my info on hand but if you are a christian, then you know that you are called to spread the good news of salvation to all the ends of the earth. All christians are comissioned to do so, but not all christians are perfect. If a tribe has not been told the truth of of salvation, it is not God who is at fault, but it is the christian servant of God who has not gone to that tribe and pull them out of that fire of which you speak of, "HELL". It says in the bible that God wishes that no one shall perish but have everlasting life. He doesn't want that tribe to perish, what He wants is that someone has enough love in there heart that they would go to those tribes and tell them about Jesus so that they have the chance to accept Him for there salvation. ANY VOLUNTEERS???

Answer 7

There is nothing anywhere that says that will happen. In fact if you look in Romans in the NT, Paul writes of people who do not know the Law, but follow the Law as it is written in their hearts, and are " a law unto themselves". In other words, people who haven't heard of Jesus, the Ten Commandments, etc., won't automatically go to hell. If they lead a good upright life according to what they know to be right, that will be taken into account by God in the end.

Answer 8

Well, that's with the assumption that they won't hear about Christ after they die.
The Greek Codex D translation (one of the very oldest) of the Bible we have today, does not say "Eternal Hell", but says "EON" of hell. which means an elastic time.
and our vibration of our spirit with lift us or lower us according to the manner we think and are while on earth.
If we follow Christ in our lives, we will be reaching to the highest level of vibration of absolute love (like Mother Theresa). If we fail at this love lesson, then we may enter another incarnation one or more times as a human until we pass that test.
Christ said John the Baptist was the incarnation of Elijah, which would mean re-incarnation. Christianity is the most spiritistic of all religions, not relying on philosophy, but on words spoken by God Himself (a Spirit) or His angels (spirits).
Some things have gotten lost in translation of the Bible, but following Gods immutable laws of Love in that Bible are the best way to live above all ways .

Answer 9

Yes -- this is what the churches teach.

Remember, Christianity is a religion of Love, imposed by the most brutal methods acceptable at a particular time. And so the tribes have had to be evangelised: brutally.

Those who escape the morbid missionaries are condemned -- after all, Saul/Paul said that all are guilty; none deserve salvation (except through Christ).

And you are correct -- there is no Right about this -- there is no Right about Christianity at any level: it is totally evil, and those who are deluded into it are culpable in its utter corruption.

Good question -- your inference is spot-on!

Answer 10

What is hell?
The majority of people appear to have a rather twisted idea about the word hell.

The word 'hell' is an old english translation of three different words - Sheol, Hades, and Gehenna.
The word itself actually means - ''a hole in the ground''.

We are all going to end up there one way or another!!