Example: What happens the native tribes in the jungles who don't even get to hear God's Word? Do they automatically go to Hell?
2007-10-28 00:18:26 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
of course "native tribes " are not damned to hell and non believers get a million times a million chances...everybody does, that is what is so great about God.
God is love!
2007-10-28 00:29:29 · answer #1 · answered by darcymc 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
That I can't answer because I'm not God but Jesus said he will not come until his word is spread from one corner of the Earth to the next. And every person has heard of him.
But in the same respect Hell and Heaven are the persons choice in accepting Christ in their lives.
And unlike some people I believe that even if you are a murder, rapist or whatever and you repent on your last breath you are saved.
I know this doesn't answer your question but it is all I can tell you right now.
But do seek him and no other and he will take care of you.
2007-10-29 05:34:38 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nobody who has not heard Gods word goes to hell automatically, they are judged on a different basis.
All non_believers can repent up to their last breath. If it is a true repentance and not because of fear of the consequences, then they will not automatically go to hell either.
You have to choose down here. That's the real reason you are down here. When you get up there it is simply too late
2007-10-28 01:02:36 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
My priest (back when I was still religious and catholic) said that the church teaches everyone has a chance at salvation so long as they live out a good, moral life and truly subscribe to the beliefs that they can relate to best. While it is a serious sin to "reject Christ completely", people who never have been given his message in its fullest, or people who keep their religion to avoid forsaking their culture, will be judged with mercy and understanding. Those who are of another faith but were baptized in Christ's name and/or still have some Christian morals have as good a chance as any practicing Christian with the same morals.
To reply to another answer...
Martin S, that is the most terrible answer I've ever heard in my life. God chooses who he wants to save? So God picks favorites? And he owes us nothing? He owes us everything. By creating us, he's forced us to gamble for our soul's fate. And what are we to God? Ants in an Ant Farm? God is generally accepted as being all forgiving, despite your conservative Nazi-like beliefs. It sounds like you got beaten as a child. Beaten pretty badly. Someone should've called the Humane Society.
Your God is a giant dick. I see that "Top Contributor" label next to your name and it makes me cringe to imagine what poor people have been corrupted by your merciless message of an uncaring God.
Anyway, I don't believe in God anymore, not because I have some grudge against Christianity like many atheists, but because I just saw no reason to believe in it. My experiences with the Church have been positive and constructive, to say the least.
2007-10-28 00:58:46 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
God is not "all forgiving". He only forgives all of the sins of people who have trusted in the payment that He made for their sins by sending his dear son Jesus to die in their place on a cross.
As to what happens to people who have never heard God's Word that question is a matter of theological debate. Two points that are often made are these.
1. The Bible clearly teaches that God chooses whom He is going to save. If God wants to save someone living in an isolated region of earth then He will give them sufficient revelation of truth along with his Holy Spirit so that they become born again and Heaven bound. How He might do this is just a guessing game. There are many ways for God to reveal truth to a person, one of which is to send missionaries out to preach the gospel.
2. Since ALL have sinned and broken God's laws and deserve to be punished, God is not unjust because He chooses to save some and not others. Humanity has a corrupted sin nature and so each individual in their natural state is not a fit companion to spend the rest of eternity with the Holy God of Heaven. God is sovereign over all of his creation and He owes nothing to any of the beings that He has brought into existence.
As to God giving non-believers "another chance" every person gets a chance every day of their life. At the end of their life their chances come to an end and the decisions that they made during their life time regarding God and their willingness to worship and submit to His will for their life becomes finalized for all eternity.
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2007-10-28 00:38:19 · answer #5 · answered by Martin S 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
the Catechism of the Catholic Church addresses this. It's like being accountable for what you know (I think). The natives who never knew God hopefully lived a life as close to what God would want, which He sees, and from what I know they'd have a chance at heaven.
For those of us who know, believer or non-believer, our time to repent is now. Every waking moment is a chance to come clean and submit to God. Once we die, time is up.
God bless.
2007-10-28 03:01:30 · answer #6 · answered by Danny H 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Christian Scriptures say that non-believers are to be judged by the natural law (Romans 2:12-16), meaning that if they did good in the eyes of God, they will not be condemned. Non-believers who are not against Christianity per se are to be considered as allies (Luke 9:50). If the 3 heavens (2 Cor. 12:1-5) correspond to the 2 astral lifetimes and the final causal body of HInduism, we all got plenty of chances.
2007-10-28 00:34:29 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
According to some people, all unbelievers, for whatever reason, go to hell. This is one of the reasons why there is such a drive to evangelize and convert the world.
However, one of your responders said:
"and all the billions who died before Christ did...
did they get a sneak peak at heaven and hell (or wherever they went at death) before they got to "make a choice"? wouldn't everyone automatically have choosen "saved" if they had experienced death before Christ?"
In my view, if this is true, then the best favor Christians can do for non-Christians is NOT evangelize to them. Leave everyone completely in the dark so that they get a personal preview given to them by God himself. That's much better than asking someone to believe without any proof whatsoever.
2007-10-28 00:32:16 · answer #8 · answered by kriosalysia 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
How do we know that they haven't? Missionaries have been going out for thousands of years spreading the Gospel message, which is believing that He is who He says that He is, repenting, being baptized by immersion in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of our sin, then receiving the HGoly Ghost with the evidence of speaking in an unlearned language that the Bible calls tongues. This is the Good news of Jesus Christ , and this is the way into His Kingdom.
2007-10-28 00:31:19 · answer #9 · answered by michael m 5 · 1⤊ 2⤋
I believe that even if you don't believe in God but you lead a moral and exlemplary life you will go to Heaven. I am a Christian but that doesn't mean I think all Buddhists will go to Hell for not believing in God. They lead beautiful lives and have fantastic morals they live by.
2007-10-28 00:23:44 · answer #10 · answered by dewberry 3 · 2⤊ 2⤋