So goats(those who reject Christ) are OK [for God] to kill [on the afterlife Day of Judgement] just because they don't believe in Christ?
How will the Day of Judgement go for those
not knowing the true gospel of Christ?
Paul answered exactly this question -- in Romans chapter 2 (and few seem to be aware of this). Let's look:
6 God “will repay each person according to what they have done.”
a 7 To those who by persistence in doing good seek glory, honor and immortality, he will give eternal life.
8 But for those who are self-seeking and who reject the truth and follow evil, there will be wrath and anger.
9 There will be trouble and distress for every human being who does evil: first for the Jew, then for the Gentile;
10 but glory, honor and peace for everyone who does good: first for the Jew, then for the Gentile.
11 For God does not show favoritism.
12 All who sin apart from the law will also perish apart from the law, and all who sin under the law will be judged by the law.
13 For it is not those who hear the law who are righteous in God’s sight, but it is those who obey the law who will be declared righteous.
14 (Indeed, when Gentiles, who do not have the law, do by nature things required by the law, they are a law for themselves, even though they do not have the law.
15 They show that the requirements of the law are written on their hearts, their consciences also bearing witness, and their thoughts sometimes accusing them and at other times even defending them.)
16 This will take place on the day when God judges people’s secrets through Jesus Christ, as my gospel declares."
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So, we see that all who are not aware of the truth of Who Christ is, the gospel, will be judged fairly on the basis of how they have lived, according to the law of God written on their heart/conscience. We cannot assume that means every one of them without ever knowing Christ will all perish -- we are not omniscient, so we do not know whether 1 in a million or more than that or less than that might live righteously even without knowing of Christ -- but, we do know that through faith in Christ, Whom God gave that whosoever believes in Him would not perish but have eternal life, we can be forgiven for all of our wrongs when we come to Christ in faith and repent and are baptized in Him and born anew through Him, and then follow His teachings, as He said we must do.
We do know that Christ is the way, the sure way, to be forgiven entirely and the only sure way to redemption from our sins and to lead us into Life.
"Do not suppose that I(Jesus) have come to bring peace to the earth. I did not come to bring peace, but a sword.
Matthew 10:34
Jesus also said
But those enemies of mine who did not want me to be king over them--bring them here and kill them in front of me.'
Luke 19:27
How is it its said Jesus is love but the above says otherwise?
By always reading fully the
passage where a verse is from -- full paragraphs, entire parables (which are very short stories) -- then you get the real meaning. Just like to understand a sentence in a poem you need that full poem.
Use the NIV translation also (not the difficult ASV used by this site). The first verse is about how His message would divide especially Jewish households, because it was so revolutionary to them, and so unlike what they had become used to; and it will still at times today divide some households, when some believe and some do not! The 2nd verse is about how Jews that rejected Him and His teaching (those who should have known better, knowing scriptures) have become like enemies, and will perish.
