Lets try this question again..... People who have never even literally heard the name jesus christ?

Question

Do they go to hell? I nkow you christians are small minded but even you have to realize that out of several billion people that SOMEWHERE on the planet there are people that go their whole lives without literally ever hearing about christianity or the name jesus christ, granted they are in remote areas but none the less. Do they go to hell?

Answer 1

Depends on your particular branch of Christianity. The Seventh Day Adventists don't believe that to be true while other sects think that everyone has the opportunity to accept Jesus and will be judged based on that.

Answer 2

Not being a Christian, this is a bit of an outsider's answer but --
There are Christian writings that talk about Jesus going into Hell to retrieve the righteous people who had come before (Abraham, Moses.. .etc.) - its called "The Harrowing of Hell"
If these writings are representative, a person who did not know the good word would go to Hell but could be rescued from there.

Answer 3

Not to mention all the people who died before us who had never heard of Jesus Christ. It's got to be in the trillions.

Do they go to hell? No, not according to Mormon belief.
We believe that those who would have believed if they had known will attain a place in Heaven. It's only those who believed, and know the truth, then rejected it that will not gain some sort of heavenly reward. We are taught that even that number will be very small. As all who died without knowing the true Gospel of Jesus Christ and having the opportunity to accept or reject it, will have the opportunity to hear it after death but before ressurection. We are taught that most will accept it.
I believe it. I think that most people are good people even the atheists. Yet there will be people who call out "Lord, Lord" and yet their relationship is not strong enough with Christ for him to recognize them. Longevity does not equal strength.

Answer 4

Jesus did stay, He rose back from the ineffective on Easter Sunday. He nevertheless lives today, because of the fact the Resurrected Lord of our lives, in case you will enable Him be. Jesus is the Son of God who's the Trinity, God the father,. God the Son & God the Holy Spirit. examine John 19:7 to the top. examine it slowly and meditate upon it. If, after examining it and additionally you're perplexed, please seek for the education of a Minister who will answer your questions. God's love & advantages to you. another element, reader, it took me an fairly long term to realize that there is a great distinction in believing in Jesus' call yet something fairly very diverse as quickly as I invited Him into my lifestyles and had a private relationship with Him. attempt vacationing in touch Ministries on line. The Pastor is magnificent. I hear to him each and every possibility i'm getting. There you will locate magnificent Scriptures and solutions (quite worry-free to comprehend) by potential of the Pastor of in touch. he's a all the way down to earth guy and that i think of you will actually locate what you're finding for. I, for one, am no longer ashamed of the Gospel and that i for my section wish that I even have helped you, regardless of if somewhat.

Answer 5

I'm a Mormon, and we believe that everybody will have a fair chance to accept Christ or not if not in life then in the life to come. CS Lewis' description of judgement day in Narnia is one example of another sort of Christian who believes the same.

I do think it's hilarious that you expose your own bigotry ("I nkow you christians are small minded but even you ...") while simultaneously trying to label all Christians as 'small-minded.' What is that but prejudice? You have no need to look farther than the mirror to discover a narrow minded individual.

Answer 6

I think I answered this yesterday--question probably got deleted, like so many others! With millions of Christians, you're could get lots of variations on this, but I don't believe so. I think God will judge such people by what knowledge of the divine they had, and whether they rebelled against that knowledge or tried to live by it as best they could.

Edit--as for those who say there are missionaries in every part of the world, that's true, but they aren't going to get to every single person. I've worked for missionary sending agencies and they acknowledge that from a purely logistical standpoint.

Answer 7

I have now!!!

the bad thing is Christians still do not read the Good Book for them selves except the passages they like If they read the whole thing & understood it then if I had not read this & I never heard of the Jesus Christ person I would go to heaven when I died.
Jesus said so him self!

Answer 8

You were given a perfectly adequate answer on your previous quest to get this answer so I d/k why you're posting yet again. Christ is not relevant...how you had lived is relevant and therefore the penance...asking forgiveness in Jesus name stuff is CRAP. Even some Christians are finally realizing that Jesus is false and that God (assuming there is one) needs no intermediary to be reached/attained.

Answer 9

This is a good question one of my friends keeps asking me this. Most of the time when we find people that have never heard of the Jesus or any religion, we find that they have or worship some kind of god. People can see that their is God by observing nature. If they will seek him, he will show himself to them.

Rom 1:19 Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath shewed [it] unto them.
Rom 1:20 For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, [even] his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:
Rom 1:21 Because that, when they knew God, they glorified [him] not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.
Rom 1:22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,

Answer 10

Now you KNOW that you're going to be told that everyone WILL hear the name. Why will you be told this? Because if everyone doesn't hear the name, it means that Jesus's death on the cross was incomplete.

OR, another possibility that you may hear is that Jesus DIDN'T actually die for everyone, that God pre-ordained who will be saved and who won't, and that those who never hear about Jesus are some of the ones that God pre-ordained aren't to be saved.

There are all kinds of twists and turns Christians come up with to cover this question you've asked, and it's always interesting to watch.