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Hippy-dippy liberals claim that if you've never heard of Jesus during your life, you will somehow get into Heaven anyway. The Bible proves them wrong.
Scripture teaches us that belief in Jesus is entirely necessary for salvation:
[John 3:16-18 KJV] 16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. 17 For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. 18 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.
It also teaches us that to believe in Jesus, you must have heard the Gospel:
[Romans 10:14-17 KJV] 14 How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher? 15 And how shall they preach, except they be sent? as it is written, How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things! 16 But they have not all obeyed the gospel. For Esaias saith, Lord, who hath believed our report? 17 So then faith [cometh] by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.
As you can see, there is no loophole. Either you hear the Gospel and believe in Jesus, or you burn in hell eternally. These are the only two possible outcomes.
Now this presents a stumbling block to happy-clappy liberal false Christians who want to see all of the mooselimbs and hindaloos from the third world in Heaven. It's not fair, they whine, that never having heard the saving message is a sin worthy of eternal torment.
Well, guess what, bliss ninnies: God doesn't promise us that salvation will be fair, at least not as the fallen world and all of the unsaved liberals in it understand fairness. If God wants a person to be saved, then God, being omnipotent, will find a way for that person to be saved:
[Romans 8:29-30 KJV] 29 For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate [to be] conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren. 30 Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified.
If He never finds a way for a person to be saved, there's a reason:
[Romans 9:19-24 KJV] 19 Thou wilt say then unto me, Why doth he yet find fault? For who hath resisted his will? 20 Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed [it], Why hast thou made me thus? 21 Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour? 22 [What] if God, willing to shew [his] wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction: 23 And that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he had afore prepared unto glory, 24 Even us, whom he hath called, not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles?
That is, if God doesn't find a way for a person to be saved, He must never have wanted that person to be saved. Any suggestion to the contrary raises ridiculous results. For example, it raises the "Then why did you tell me?" problem (unsaved source; proceed with caution). Also, it makes God's plan of salvation contingent on whether human beings can get the saving message to one another in time, as almost-True Christian™ Jack Chick points out in this tract, and thus makes Almighty God utterly dependent on human actors to achieve His will.
Scripture teaches us that belief in Jesus is entirely necessary for salvation:
[John 3:16-18 KJV] 16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. 17 For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. 18 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.
It also teaches us that to believe in Jesus, you must have heard the Gospel:
[Romans 10:14-17 KJV] 14 How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher? 15 And how shall they preach, except they be sent? as it is written, How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things! 16 But they have not all obeyed the gospel. For Esaias saith, Lord, who hath believed our report? 17 So then faith [cometh] by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.
As you can see, there is no loophole. Either you hear the Gospel and believe in Jesus, or you burn in hell eternally. These are the only two possible outcomes.
Now this presents a stumbling block to happy-clappy liberal false Christians who want to see all of the mooselimbs and hindaloos from the third world in Heaven. It's not fair, they whine, that never having heard the saving message is a sin worthy of eternal torment.
Well, guess what, bliss ninnies: God doesn't promise us that salvation will be fair, at least not as the fallen world and all of the unsaved liberals in it understand fairness. If God wants a person to be saved, then God, being omnipotent, will find a way for that person to be saved:
[Romans 8:29-30 KJV] 29 For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate [to be] conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren. 30 Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified.
If He never finds a way for a person to be saved, there's a reason:
[Romans 9:19-24 KJV] 19 Thou wilt say then unto me, Why doth he yet find fault? For who hath resisted his will? 20 Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed [it], Why hast thou made me thus? 21 Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour? 22 [What] if God, willing to shew [his] wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction: 23 And that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he had afore prepared unto glory, 24 Even us, whom he hath called, not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles?
That is, if God doesn't find a way for a person to be saved, He must never have wanted that person to be saved. Any suggestion to the contrary raises ridiculous results. For example, it raises the "Then why did you tell me?" problem (unsaved source; proceed with caution). Also, it makes God's plan of salvation contingent on whether human beings can get the saving message to one another in time, as almost-True Christian™ Jack Chick points out in this tract, and thus makes Almighty God utterly dependent on human actors to achieve His will.
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