[From a discussion about God punishing people who do not accept the Gospel and how fair that is to the people who never even got a chance to hear the Gospel]
I've never personally known or heard of anyone dying w/o hearing the Gospel. God has given me and other dear friends opportunities to witness to many elderly people (80's and near 100's) who have said, "Thank you, I've never heard that before!" God was gracious,patient and merciful to keep them alive until they heard the Gospel.
Some have said, "Um, okay, no one's ever told me that before and I've been fine so far, so..."
I don't think any of us can say that we have absolute knowledge that anyone who has died and gone to Hell never had the opportunity to hear the Gospel.
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"Because, you see, neither my friends nor I have never left Arkansas, and I figure no other human ever has either."
"I don't think any of us can say that we have absolute knowledge that anyone who has died and gone to Hell never had the opportunity to hear the Gospel."
"I don't think any of us can say that we have absolute knowledge that anyone who has died and gone to Hell never had the opportunity to hear the Gospel ."
There, that's better. Now leave the old folks alone. They have enough aches and pains without you becoming another one.
I don't think any of us can say that we have absolute knowledge that anyone who has died and gone to Hell never had the opportunity to hear the Gospel.
And what of the people in the dozen or so uncontacted tribes dotting the earth? Being uncontacted means that they have not had your gospels(Myths) shoved down their throats. So are they by default damned to hell? what about all the people in Africa, Asia, Australia, the Americas, and hundreds of islands? did they all go ditredtly to hell (Without passing go or collecting $200) in the years before the oh-so-wonderful christian missonaries showed up to convert them?
What kind of just and loving god would condem to hell those which had never the chance to hear his word?
Hæc Credo, A Deo Pio? A Dea Justo? A Deo Scito?
Thank you, I've never heard that before.
The only 80-year-old in the U. S. who could possibly utter this would be one who spent the entirety of his life in a basement. In this country "the word" is a pervasive as the stink downwind from a feedlot.
There's lots you've never heard before and much common knowledge you ignore.
Also, being you're a Ray Comfort fan, you have reality issues more than most
Uh, what about all the people who died before Jesus was even born? What about all the people who lived in Africa, the Americas, China, the Pacific, etc, etc, who had never heard of Christianity until European colonisation began around 1500 years after your book was written?
Poster has never heard of Saudi Arabia, India, China, Indonesia, Pakistan etc. where the gospels have not reached and probably will not reach in the near future.
There are several things which truly terrify me about growing old: incontinence, dementia, amnesia and bodily incapacity are only the start of it. The worst of these, however, would be to lose the ability to maintain a lifetime of rational and compassionate thought and in its stead embrace a senseless, contradictory, hateful religion.
"God has given me and other dear friends opportunities to witness to many elderly people (80's and near 100's) who have said, "Thank you, I've never heard that before!" "
Well, that's alzheimers for you!
Old people. Needing to be saved all over again, every morning.
> God has given me and other dear friends opportunities to witness to many elderly people (80's and near 100's) who have said, "Thank you, I've never heard that before!"
Let's pretend this is actually true of someone in the USA, assuming that's where jesusrulzme is from. If someone was that old before they heard "the Gospel" for the first time, then it would only stand to reason that plenty of people have died, even in modern-day USA, without having "a chance to hear the Gospel".
Let's not even get into all the other countries or time periods, which this person obviously knows nothing about.
> I've never personally known or heard of...
...albinos [or insert anything there], therefore they must not exist.
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"Because, you see, neither my friends nor I have never left Arkansas, and I figure no other human ever has either."
I've said it before, but it bears repeating: 'Americentricism. It should be illegal. '
But then, jesuslulzme (and even ol' Bananaman himself) would regard geography lessons in non-hoemskuling educational establishments, and even "The Times Atlas of the World", to be the work of Satan.
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