What's Going to Happen to Those People Who Have Never Heard About Jesus Christ?
Rick Warren Answers Your Questions
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What's going to happen to those people in the world
who've never heard about Jesus Christ?
~ You may have heard this question put this way: "What about the person living in the jungle somewhere who's never heard the good news about Jesus Christ? Are you christians saying that a person won't go to heaven based solely on where he lives?" No, we're not saying that. The Bible tells us that God doesn’t work that way. We understand that God is perfect in His love and perfect in His holiness and He's perfectly just and fair. Therefore, it's against God's nature to be unfair. It's against God's nature to hide the ball on salvation or to condemn somebody who's ignorant of his truth. In fact the scripture, the bible declares that God is loving and patient and not willing that anybody should perish. But He wants everybody to come to repentance, to come to know Him.
So if God is a perfectly loving and righteous God, then He will figure out ways to help people understand Him. He somehow reveals the simple truth of the gospel to people throughout the world. You know, I've talked to people who were missionaries in Africa who've told me that Jesus has revealed Himself through nature. When you look at nature you learn that God is organized, that God is creative, that God likes variety. But it's when we look at Jesus Christ we realize that God is loving.
And as Christians we are called to tell the good news to other people. It's God's decision to decide what happens to people who haven't heard about Him. But it is our decision to take that news to as many people as possible. And the bible says we will be held more responsible because we have heard and we have known that God is love, that God wants a relationship to us and that God will forgive us if we give our lives to Jesus Christ.
So, what do we do about those who haven't heard? We tell them. First we accept God's good news and then we tell them and we leave the result in the hands of a fair, loving and just God.
Would you like to know how to tell someone about Jesus Christ? Just send this URL to them. http://www.secretsofsuccess.com/simple/article/secret1.html
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