What About Those Who Have Never Heard?

I personally know some very nice Muslims; some wonderful Jews; and some very friendly Hindus. The questions I hear often is, What about these people? Are you telling me just because they have never become a Christian they aren't going to heaven? Is God fair; is He good and is He just if He would allow a person to be eternally separated from Him if they have never even heard about Him?

Our sense of fairness and justice is so different from God's. To begin with, we usually approach these ideas these from man's perspective, as if man is the center. That is humanism; the belief that everything exist for the happiness and good of man. Biblical Christianity teaches that the goal of life and everything that exists is the glory of God. Therefore, fairness and justice is determined not by what we think or feel, but what the Righteous Creator says in relation to His glory.

This Sunday morning we will look at the book of Romans and see what the Scriptures teach about those who have never heard. I am calling it, Without Excuse. Humanists and liberals would hate it. I am praying that God would speak to all of us to motivate the saved to make the gospel known to all peoples, and He would convict the lost and bring them to salvation.

For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead, so that they are without excuse. Romans 1:20