Anyone seeking God in truth will find Him and be accepted by Him. The heathen of any land – even ours – will seek his Creator only if God has already moved in his heart to do so. If God is moving in that person’s heart, nothing will keep him from the content of the Gospel necessary to complete his work of faith.
However, this isn't the real issue for you and me. When each of us faces God, there will be no discussion about the heathen who never heard. Instead, the question will be: What about those who have heard? What about you and I? Did we bend the knee and ask Jesus to forgive us?
God does not condemn us for rejecting a Jesus of whom we've never heard. We are held accountable for our own moral crimes against God, and for rejecting the Father, whose voice is heard everywhere.1
Stand firm in Christ,
Chase
Footnotes:
1. Koukl, Greg. Worshipping the Unknown God: The Heathen and Salvation. Clear Thinking. Vol. 1 No. 2. Page 14.
However, this isn't the real issue for you and me. When each of us faces God, there will be no discussion about the heathen who never heard. Instead, the question will be: What about those who have heard? What about you and I? Did we bend the knee and ask Jesus to forgive us?
God does not condemn us for rejecting a Jesus of whom we've never heard. We are held accountable for our own moral crimes against God, and for rejecting the Father, whose voice is heard everywhere.1
Stand firm in Christ,
Chase
Footnotes:
1. Koukl, Greg. Worshipping the Unknown God: The Heathen and Salvation. Clear Thinking. Vol. 1 No. 2. Page 14.
Comments
I am truely sorry for the loss of your son. As a father of a two year old son, I can only begin to understand the pain you feel and quickly find myself unwilling to entertain thoughts of my son's death in my mind and heart. God's understanding of your pain infinitely surpassess mine as He did lose a Son to death and was willing to lose Him. And the Son was willing to die. All for the purpose of redeeming mankind to the triune God out of the love He has for us. It is for this reason that I, and the others involved with this blog, bow the knee to Jesus. Not out of fear, but out of love, respect, and awe that He would die for ones so undeserving. Amplified all the more by His resurrection from the dead. For this reason, we look to Jesus and what He said regarding eternity and our relationship with Him. We point you to Him as well for He alone holds the words of eternal life (John 6:68) and is aquainted with sorrow and suffering (Isaiah 53:3-4).
Respectfully.
If this is the same anonymous, and also if it is not, I meant no disrespect as I was not comparing the lose of your, or their, son to God's lose of His Son. I was pointing you, or them, to the triune God revealed through Christ as His understanding of your, or their, pain infinitely surpasses my own.
Respectfully.