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From: kiki@isieng.UUCP (Kiki Herbst)
Newsgroups: net.religion.christian,talk.religion.misc
Subject: Re: Salvation questions
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Date: Fri, 3-Oct-86 14:09:09 EDT
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In article <181@slovax.UUCP> michael@slovax.UUCP (Michael Longe) writes:
>> Do tribes or cultures who never hear of the Jesus solution also roast?
>> ... 
>> 		--cosmique muffin (dorothy) 
>
>An oft-asked question (in fact, even my mother once asked it).
>
>Very little info is available in the Bible regarding those who have
>not heard the opportunity to hear the Gospel...
>
>The best I can suggest to deal with questions like this which have no
>for-sure answers (God chose not to give his point of view), is to base
>the *action* of God upon the *character* of God.  If the nature and
>personality of God is one of love, grace, redemption, as the Bible
>states, then it is probable that He has a plan for those people who
>have not heard the Gospel which is in keeping with that nature..

I agree with Michael's point here that God's nature is not such that he
would do something unjust.  He does love man and wants us to come to him.
So he is not going to unfairly punish those who do not hear about Him.
I disagree with the first part of this statement though because God clearly
says in Romans (which I previously quoted) that man who does not hear the
law will not be judged by the law.  It goes on to say that we are not judged
by whether or not we have the opportunity to hear about Jesus or the Bible,
we are individually judged by the way we respond to God in our lives.  For
most of us, we have the opportunity to clearly read about God.  We have
benefits that others do not have.  But still not many people care to find
out about God or to follow the inner stirrings of God in their lives.
>

>Would my employers be surprised to discover I was a Christian?
Would they?  :-)

Kiki