It’s a question every Christian is asked to consider at one time or another: Is God fair to punish those who have never heard of Jesus Christ? There are many ways to consider the issue and many ways to answer. Here is just one of them.
Lying behind the question is almost always an erroneous assumption—that people are condemned only (or primarily) for rejecting Christ. If this is the case, those who explicitly reject Christ have knowingly turned their backs on him and invited God’s wrath, but those who have neither known nor rejected Christ are in a state of innocence toward God.
This is where we need to turn to the first several chapters of Romans where Paul tells us, beyond any doubt, that all men are under the just wrath of God. It is not their rejection of God’s special revelation of Jesus Christ that is at the heart of their condemnation, but their rejection of God himself, even despite his natural revelation. General revelation communicates truth to everyone— truth that ought to lead each of us to turn to God. And yet nowhere in the Bible is there record of
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