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?
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