Would God allow a person to die without a change to receive His gift?
What did Jesus tell the pharisees?
34. They answered and said to him, "You were completely born in sins, and are you teaching us?'' And they cast him out.
35. Jesus heard that they had cast him out; and when He had found him, He said to him, "Do you believe in the Son of God?''
36. He answered and said, "Who is He, Lord, that I may believe in Him?''
37. And Jesus said to him, "You have both seen Him and it is He who is talking with you.''
38. Then he said, "Lord, I believe!'' And he worshiped Him.
39. And Jesus said, "For judgment I have come into this world, that those who do not see may see, and that those who see may be made blind.''
40. Then some of the Pharisees who were with Him heard these words, and said to Him, "Are we blind also?''
41. Jesus said to them, "If you were blind, you would have no sin; but now you say, `We see.' Therefore your sin remains.
I have heard this story told to me as an example;
In the early 1900's there was a man in a tribe in western Africa. As a young man he left his village to go on what he called a "vision quest". As he was on this "quest" to took notice at the trees around him and he knew they worshipped the tree god, as he continued he noticed the clouds and it was the cloud god that created the tree god, and even further in his walk he comtemplated how the sky god had created the cloud god, so in that aspect the sky god had to also create the tree god. As he continued in this he came to the finial thought that there has to be a God that created all these other "gods" and this is the God he chooses to worship. A short time later this man had a dream that one day a white bird would come and help him understand the choise he made that day. Five years later a missionary flew over his village and came and taught him the gospel. He in turn became a missonary to guess where----> the USA
God Bless
Chuck