So a tribe member somewhere in the amazon who’s never heard of Jesus goes to hell??
ROFL
Please tell me that’s not what you meant.
Because that would be terrifying that a person could think that way.
Are they supposed to GUESS there’s a Jesus and GUESS what his entire life was about?
Just wow
It’s hard to die and not believe you’re dead.
“ So a tribe member somewhere in the amazon who’s never heard of Jesus goes to hell??”
Did you read it? No
This thread was brought in so people here have an excuse to hate on the Catholic Church. A regular form of recreation here
It’s one paragraph. Could people at least read it before bashing? Otherwise your bigotry is showing up loud
Read Romans 1:20 through the end of the chapter. It will answer the question
So a tribe member somewhere in the amazon who’s never heard of Jesus goes to hell??
ROFL
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You may roll on the floor laughing but it does not change scripture. The scriptures imply pretty strongly actually that those who do not confess Jesus The Christ will not enjoy the blessings of Heaven.
I personally hope and believe that ignorance is bliss, or that if you haven’t accepted Christ through no fault of your own that you will not be punished until you have had a chance to accept Him but The Holy Bible does not teach that.
There are many wonderfully kind and good people in the world who are not Christian. Will goodness and kindness get you to Heaven to live with The Christ? I think not. But I also believe there are some provisions made for those non-believers who have never known the name of Jesus The Christ. They just aren’t pointed out in the Holy Bible.
Our Mormon friends preach that there is a way but there is only very little support for their doctrine in the Holy Bible. When I asked a Roman Catholic Priest about this doctrine and spoke about Jesus visiting Hell while He was between mortality and the resurrection, he said that Christ went to visit Hell just to punish those that were there but Mormons believe he preached to them because they might be redeemed.
I think that it is important to tell everyone we can of Jesus Christ so that they will have the opportunity to accept Him. I am afraid that we will be held accountable for those we could have taught about Christ but were too lazy to do so.
—> So a tribe member somewhere in the amazon who’s never heard of Jesus goes to hell??
Nice to see you concerned about the theoretical tribesman.
We know things about all humanity:
1. They all have creation as natural revelation that there is a God.
2. They are born to a fallen and sinful race.
3. God responds to those who seek Him.
I’m sorry you don’t understand the Scriptures. The answers are all there.
There is a huge difference between knowing and understanding.
It is not a laughing matter, and your reaction indicates superficial knowledge. For while no one is condemned for not believing what they never knew, they are judged according to what they knew, and relative to that degree. And as even those which have not the law (which entails all of Scripture) may do by nature things contained in the law, (Romans 2:14)
and as through the Son of God/the Word of God were all things created and provided,(Jn. 1:103) and who, as the true Light lighteth every man that cometh into the world, (John 1:9)
then if one disobeys the Divine light they have, then in essence they are rejecting the Source of that Truth. If one continues on that path, then they will end up in Outer Darkness with its everlasting punishment. In contrast, if one honestly seeks Divine Truth and obeys the degree of Light that he/she has, then such will be provided with more Truth, leading them to The Way, The Truth, and The Life.
Which applied to mankind from the beginning, as those who honestly wanted to obey God, and were honest with themselves and thus abandoned hope of salvation on their own merit, and cast themselves on the mercy of God akin to the publican (Luke 18:13) were essentially looking forward to the coming Messiah/scapegoat/atonement, as was the ignorant criminal on the cross next to the crucified Lord.
This life is a test as to what men seek and will choose. There is far more depth of meaning in conversion and rejection than simply not believing.
He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God. (John 3:18-21)
The people answered him, We have heard out of the law that Christ abideth for ever: and how sayest thou, The Son of man must be lifted up? who is this Son of man? Then Jesus said unto them, Yet a little while is the light with you. Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you: for he that walketh in darkness knoweth not whither he goeth. While ye have light, believe in the light, that ye may be the children of light. These things spake Jesus, and departed, and did hide himself from them. (John 12:34-36)
Seeking prepares the heart for effectual and appreciative finding.
I will rise now, and go about the city in the streets, and in the broad ways I will seek him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not. The watchmen that go about the city found me: to whom I said, Saw ye him whom my soul loveth? It was but a little that I passed from them, but I found him whom my soul loveth: I held him, and would not let him go, until I had brought him into my mother’s house, and into the chamber of her that conceived me. (Song of Solomon 3:2-4)But continued rejection can bring judicial blindness. (John 12:39
Therefore they could not believe, because that Esaias said again, He hath blinded their eyes, and hardened their heart; that they should not see with their eyes, nor understand with their heart, and be converted, and I should heal them. These things said Esaias, when he saw his glory, and spake of him. Nevertheless among the chief rulers also many believed on him; but because of the Pharisees they did not confess him, lest they should be put out of the synagogue: For they loved the praise of men more than the praise of God.
Jesus cried and said, He that believeth on me, believeth not on me, but on him that sent me. And he that seeth me seeth him that sent me. I am come a light into the world, that whosoever believeth on me should not abide in darkness. And if any man hear my words, and believe not, I judge him not: for I came not to judge the world, but to save the world. He that rejecteth me, and receiveth not my words, hath one that judgeth him: the word that I have spoken, the same shall judge him in the last day. (John 12:39-48)
It’s even worse… wise men from the tribe after being told they now know about Christ, etc… “Why did you tell us?!”