Because the good news then becomes a literal living hell. If there is no hope for those who haven't heard of Christ or accepted Christ period, then why were they even made? Why would God create people that He would full well know die without knowing Him or His Son?
Throughout the Old Testament, God would always punish His people, but then promise that there was hope at the end of that punishment. Punishment was meant as a means to correct and teach the people a lesson, it wasn't just for the sake of destroying those rebelling against Him. Why would God continue to be with Israel if He didn't want them to learn? Punishment without hope of reprieve is just misery. Its a hell that this world indulges in far too much, far too often.
It crushes me to see so many of my fellow brothers and sisters in Christ looking down upon those "out" as going to place to burn forever. It crushes me to know that God's purpose for us is ultimately pointless if so many people are born only to die. It crushes me that the church, as in the whole body of believers, Jesus built is so divided and even hateful towards one another for not believing certain things.
Maybe I'm just too soft hearted, or maybe I'm just an idiot or a fool, but I believe there is still hope for even those who did not accept Christ. Revelations speaks of death and the dead in it being tossed into a lake of fire, which is the second death. However, Paul speaks of people being judged according to our works. God will test our works through fire. Those whose works are still standing will be rewarded, while those whose works are burned down still be saved though their losses will be great, as someone escaping from flames.
Revelations also speaks of heaven as never having its gates shut. It may be that the gates are never shut simply because there is no more evil, but it may also be for those who have lost everything eventually coming to God, as the prodigal son did after he blew all the riches his father had given him.
I'm simply asking what Abraham did. Would you not spare this town for even ten people in this city? Would you not spare this world for they know not what they do? Though Sodom and Gomorrah were destroyed, God promised in Ezekiel to restore even those cities. But life cannot come unless death takes place. We cannot live without consuming that which was once living. So too will the new earth and the new heaven be. They cannot be without the old ones passing away.
I can't say with certainty as to which is the case, but perhaps that's why its such good news. There's hope. I simply don't know what God will do, but there's still hope. At times, its the only thing that carries me on pursuing God. I want to believe He really is making ALL things new again.
The idea that we are created when we are born is the reason for so
many misunderstandings,even sins in the religions of christianity.
I hope I can say this in the unorthodox section,that we were not
created when we were born this time, but have had many opportunities
to know God/jesus,and have more and more every day.
The problem is that most religion like politics has denied the more
advanced souls,and
their wisdom, for a pragmatic, organised one.
There have been often good reasons for this ,but since the Age
of Reason,the God as Scientist,the original scientist ,should have
become central to christian study.Since it [relgion] has not been
proactive in this sphere,not always for the good reason ,it has spawned
many atheists.
When people are thrown out of a church for daring to ask any questions,
without being able to get the spiritual support they need
they go where they are welcomed,and that is among' rational' atheists
instead of' rational' christians,of whom there are very few indeed.
God's time is not able to be understood totally by questing scientific
types,but is not understood AT ALL by the basic christian who have not evolved
since Jesus / John Paul recognised that there are differerent
levels of conciousness,and I would ask ,Why ?
In my opinion many of those in HELL will have been unthinking,unloving
christians,Christian by habit ,by tradition only.
And some of those frowned on,
will be at least in purgatory,because
they were not bad souls,but rejected ones.