What About Those Who Never Heard of Jesus?

Q: What does the Bible say about people who never have a chance to hear about Jesus? Will they go to hell if they dont trust Christ to save them? Why would God create them in the first place, only to doom them to hell, having never heard of Christ?

A: By Pastor Ken Burisek, The Ole Country Church, Medford, Wisconsin
Email: kburisek@taylorelectric.org
Author and Bible scholar A.W. Pink answered this question quite well in his book, The Sovereignty of God. The heathen will not perish because they have not believed in Christ, but because they failed to live up to the light which they did have - the testimony of God in nature and conscience. - p.161. The Bible, in Genesis 18:25b says, Shall not the Judge (GOD) of all the earth do right? That scripture clearly tells us that God will always do what is right and just.
Those who have never heard a presentation of the Gospel message will most likely be judged on different terms than folk who have heard the Gospel and rejected it. God is HOLY and He must judge and punish sin - but He is also fair and just. I believe that we who live in America, where we are saturated with the Gospel through so many means and still reject God, will be judged all the more harshly when we stand before God in Judgment. Romans 1:18-20 tells us this: For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousnessbecause that which may be known of God is manif ...