WHAT HAPPENS TO THE UNEVANGELIZED IN THE WORLD, WHEN THEY DIE? HEAVEN OR HELL?
I've been asking this question for years and still the answers always amazes me in how the many people responded, not by giving a biblical foundation to justify their answers, but more of an emotional response.
I'll make the question more simple in scope, to not create any confusion or even division.
There are still 1.8 billion in the world who have never heard the name Jesus or if they did, its not a biblical understanding but an Islamic one, whereas He is merely just another long line of prophets.
And there are still over 200 million people in the unreached and unevangelized world who has not one scripture in their language of understanding, called heart language, or in their mother tongue of understanding.
So what happens to that African woman who is still walking with a water bucket on her head as she walks miles to find a well and is weakened by aids from her now deceased husband when she dies? She has never heard of Jesus. She has never heard that Jesus died for her sins. She has never heard that only through Him she is saved by grace. She has never been told that He died for her sins. She has never been told that Jesus the Christ is her redeemer. She has never been told that she is made righteous through Jesus the Christ. She has never been told that only Jesus the Christ has the power to forgive her sins and throw her sins in the sea of forgetfulness. She has never been told that through repentance only can she come to the cross of Christ. She has never been told that all she has to do is to receive Christ as her Lord and savior and be born again. She has never been told to have faith only in Christ Jesus. She has never been told to accept or to reject Christ and to make a decision. She has never heard one sermon. She has never known hope. She has never been alleviated by her heavy laden of sins. She has never been told that Jesus only gives light burdens. She has never known that Jesus rose on the third day. She has never been told that "Lo I'm with you always". She has never been told that "vengeance is mine sayeth the Lord". She has never been told that the "battle is not yours but the Lords". She has never been told, "To keep the temple of God Holy". She has never been told that Jesus came to preach the Good News to the poor and to set the captives free". She has never been told, "To walk in the spirit not in the flesh". She has never been told, "Greater than He that is in me, than he that is in this world".
She has never been told that "God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten son and He that believeth in Him shall not perish but have everlasting llife"
So if she's never been told, and she dies, what happens to her? Heaven or Hell?
I'll make the question more simple in scope, to not create any confusion or even division.
There are still 1.8 billion in the world who have never heard the name Jesus or if they did, its not a biblical understanding but an Islamic one, whereas He is merely just another long line of prophets.
And there are still over 200 million people in the unreached and unevangelized world who has not one scripture in their language of understanding, called heart language, or in their mother tongue of understanding.
So what happens to that African woman who is still walking with a water bucket on her head as she walks miles to find a well and is weakened by aids from her now deceased husband when she dies? She has never heard of Jesus. She has never heard that Jesus died for her sins. She has never heard that only through Him she is saved by grace. She has never been told that He died for her sins. She has never been told that Jesus the Christ is her redeemer. She has never been told that she is made righteous through Jesus the Christ. She has never been told that only Jesus the Christ has the power to forgive her sins and throw her sins in the sea of forgetfulness. She has never been told that through repentance only can she come to the cross of Christ. She has never been told that all she has to do is to receive Christ as her Lord and savior and be born again. She has never been told to have faith only in Christ Jesus. She has never been told to accept or to reject Christ and to make a decision. She has never heard one sermon. She has never known hope. She has never been alleviated by her heavy laden of sins. She has never been told that Jesus only gives light burdens. She has never known that Jesus rose on the third day. She has never been told that "Lo I'm with you always". She has never been told that "vengeance is mine sayeth the Lord". She has never been told that the "battle is not yours but the Lords". She has never been told, "To keep the temple of God Holy". She has never been told that Jesus came to preach the Good News to the poor and to set the captives free". She has never been told, "To walk in the spirit not in the flesh". She has never been told, "Greater than He that is in me, than he that is in this world".
She has never been told that "God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten son and He that believeth in Him shall not perish but have everlasting llife"
So if she's never been told, and she dies, what happens to her? Heaven or Hell?
Comment
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Comment by E.Bert Todd on April 5, 2009 at 10:49am
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Very interesting Rev Z "Yea, Yea, I know what the bible says..." so dare I ask, since you know what The Bible says, what you believe about said bible, and it's veracity.
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Comment by Scott R. Newman on April 5, 2009 at 10:02am
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RevZ, so are you saying that there is another way or dispensation apart from having faith in Christ they can somehow spend eternity with Christ?
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Comment by RevZ on April 4, 2009 at 4:20pm
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Paul kind of got the heart of what I believe you are asking.
Romans 1:(20) For the invisible things of him since the creation of the world are clearly seen, being perceived through the things that are made, even his everlasting power and divinity; that they may be without excuse:
The things is while there is a more direct path to God it is not the only path to God.
Yea, Yea, I know what the bible says, so don't start beating me over the head with biblical quotations.
A couple of questions:
Can you prove God?
Can you prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that God exists?
If anyone can answer those two questions beyond Heb 11:1 I want to meet them.
For me that is why it is faith. It always comes back to faith. Heb 11:1 sums it up (for me anyway).
As educated, intelligent, gifted with language and so on that I am I can not with or without (especially without) the bible prove God, I can only believe.
Who are you you to act like your God? I do not care what some Hebrew wrote what does God say, and it is in the bible don't just pick the parts you like.
God is open to all of God's creation.
{note I never say He, God has no gender}
So all the above yada, yada, is just that, unless someone can prove God beyond Heb 11:1.
I so do love theology, I have been up over 36 hours, I was sleepy until I read this disscussion.
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