- Dec 26, 2007
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To be honest, I'm not sure how any of the above addresses that to which it was responding.How can followers of other faiths respond to God's love, shown in Christ, if they have never heard of him, or the Gospel or been given the opportunity to respond?
Hell is knowing who God is, because you've seen him face to face, knowing that the Gospel you heard an rejected is true after all, knowing that Jesus could have forgiven your sins, but you chose to reject him.
Without Jesus a sinner cannot be reconciled to the Father; Jesus is the one who saves, John 14:6, Acts 4:12. If someone doesn't come to Jesus, they will not receive eternal life - and so suffer the wages of sin, which is death, Romans 6:23. Jesus said that whoever turned to him would have eternal life.
How much people of other religions - or children, or people with learning disabilities - understand, and whether they are able to turn to God, is not for us to judge.
But the solution to being without God for eternity, is to turn to him, trust in him and receive his forgiveness and eternal life.
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