in the christian view, what is the meaning of life for the billions and billions of people who....?

Question

are born and live in countries/cultures where christianity is marginalized or non-existent?
most ALL of these people will never be introduced to cristianity in any sort of meaning ful way.

for the sake of being objective, you have to put yourself in someone elses shoes here.
you know that the idea that your religion is false and theirs(Islam, for instance) is true is an absolute absurdity to you.
You will never take another person attempt to convert you into their faith serious.
and the reason why you would never take their testimony of their faith seriously is because you feel that you know for CERTAIN, certain that all the jesus stuff is true.
you might say you have had an experience where you "felt" the spirit.

You have to understand that people of other faiths feel the same way about the justification of the truthfulness of their respective faiths.
Muslims are a very religious people. They think that they feel spiritual experiences with their god too. Buddhists are the same way. They truly and earnestly believe that when they meditate and such they are tied in to the oneness of the cosmos.

certainly god is not punishing these billions of people with eternal punishment for not accepting a foreign ideology.

what is the whole point for it all, life and meaning, for the people?
Is it the whole point of this earthly existence for christ’s followers to convert these billions of ideologically unapproachable people?

Answer 1

An Inuit hunter asked the local missionary priest: "If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?" 

"No," said the priest, "not if you did not know."

"Then why," asked the Inuit earnestly, "did you tell me?"

~ Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
.

Answer 2

I don't think that God will ever send a good person to hell. Even the Bible says
For all who have sinned without the Law will also perish without the Law, and all who have sinned under the Law will be judged by the Law; 13 for it is not the hearers of the Law who are just before God, but the doers of the Law will be justified. 14 For when Gentiles who do not have the Law do instinctively the things of the Law, these, not having the Law, are a law to themselves, 15 in that they show the work of the Law written in their hearts, their conscience bearing witness and their thoughts alternately accusing or else defending them

Answer 3

Yes. We are to go into all the world and preach the gospel. Satellites are in the world and the USA has only one job and that is to get the gospel out to all the world. The vinyard that was rejected and that the owner's son was killed was taken away from them and leased to another, but the years are up and the vinyard will be returned to the original people.

Jesus said, ""Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation; and a house divided against a house falleth."
Luke 11:17

Islam will fall. The tribes fight one against another.

A nation divided cannot stand and that even goes for the USA. If Islam divides us, we will not stand either. God's Word is not mocked.

Answer 4

First of all I think "billions and billions is way, way exaggerated. None the less God said that every single person that is of the age of understanding will receive his word before the end comes. Who knows if all these so called billions of people you speak of have or have not received the word of God. Maybe there interpretation of the word we don't understand. If they believe there is one God and that God sent his son to die for our sins and was resurrected three days later to return to God and sit at his right side regardless of how they show it then they will be saved. There are also people that die all the time because there society believes that Christianity is evil. So there are people that believe in Christian beliefs but choose not to show it for there own safety or maybe they have other work for God that needs to be done first. Regardless everyone will know of the Christian God, If you "choose" to be separated from him on earth then you "choose" to be separated from him in death. GOD BLESS!!

Answer 5

The purpose of life for the billions and billions of people is to accept that all people have been condemned to death through sin. That God loves people so much that He took it upon himself to pay the death penalty for us by sacrificing His only son Jesus so that through His death the death penalty we were condemned to was paid. If a person acknowledges that he is sinful and thereby condemned to eternal death and accepts Jesus Christ's personal sacrifice to pay that penalty for him then he is saved from punishment. The rest of it is not really for us to know until we see Christ again and all questions are answered. If it ends up being true that all the people who never heard about Jesus and his sacrifice are condemned to death then it is not for us to question. I don't know the answer to that and I wont presume to judge them. You have to understand that God is sovereign. That means he is the Deity, THE king and ruler, the creator and owner of all things. As such He makes the rules, even the ones that don't make sense.

I personally would never say that I believe "all the Jesus stuff" because of a feeling or a "spiritual" experience. I believe in Jesus because of the historical fact of his life, his ministry and his death. There are very few scholars who would say that Jesus didn't live and preach and die the way the Bible says he did. What remains then is to believe what Christ said about himself. He said that he IS God. That Jesus and the Father are one. The Bible says that Jesus rose from the dead and still lives and will come back to Earth some day.

The evidence we have here is historical evidence, not scientific. It cannot be proven scientifically but historically through the eye witness testimony of the people who lived and walked and died with Jesus. Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, Paul. These are some of the witnesses who went to their (horrible) deaths believing what they claimed to see, that is, Christ resurrected. Paul sought out Christians to murder them and imprison them, he was the most ardent anti-Christian of his time but something happened to him. Paul claimed that Jesus came to him in flesh and showed him the truth of His death and resurrection. From that point forward Paul became one of the most ardent PRO-Christians who ever lived. He was tortured and imprisoned and eventually murdered for his belief that he saw what he says he saw. He never ever recanted his testimony, even to the point of death. Pick up the Bible and read about him.

Don't ever ever believe someone who says you must have "a burning in your bosom" or have a spiritual experience or FEEL that it is true. Feelings do not drive the facts. They can be manipulated and misunderstood. Only facts stand. Fact: Jesus lived and preached and died on the cross. Fact: His followers saw Jesus in the flesh after he had been murdered. Fact: Paul turned from being a murderer of Christians into the most prolific evangelist of all time.

Because of the consequences involved you must MUST deal with what Jesus said about himself and determine for yourself if he was a liar, a lunatic or if Jesus truly was Lord and Savior. Don't dismiss it as fantasy. There are too many facts that are not disputed for you to walk away from it without discovering for yourself if it is true or not.

Answer 6

That is why Jesus gave us the command to go into all the nations and preach the Gospel...many will hear it and not believe but that is their choice. Our duty is not to force them to believe but to give them the message and leave it up to the Holy Spirit to change their hearts if possible. The only way to gain eternal salvation and life in heaven is by believing in Jesus as your Savior...many people will not hear that message and many also will hear and not believe...it's because of the Devil trying to thwart God's wished for all to be saved...he causes doubts in people's minds and leads them astray of the truth. Jesus already paid the price for all our sins so it's only up to us to believe.

Answer 7

You already know. To live for their god. To do what their god says so they can be in heaven praising their god for all eternity.

Sounds like slavery to me.

Answer 8

You have to understand that they can't put themselves in others shoes. Most of them are too closed minded to think about people who are different! Insted they mock them and tell them they're going to Hell! How loving!

Answer 9

Because they are "brainwashed" and narrow minded.
Their "god" their "Jesus"

They can't think beyond that and don't want to.