Eternal Destiny of People who Never Hear the Gospel
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INTRODUCTION
What happens to people who never hear the gospel of Jesus Christ? First one must answer the question, "What is the gospel of Jesus Christ?" The most simplified answer would be that the gospel of Jesus Christ is the message of good news proclaimed by Christ Jesus. Jesus told his followers to go and proclaim this good news to the entire world. The problem with this directive is the same now two thousand years later. The church's first Apostle's Peter and Paul disagreed at times as to the full meaning of what the gospel entailed. Today people spend decades of their lives trying to decipher the exact meaning and message of Jesus Christ. Although many true Christians will disagree, this paper will attempt to prove that this good news contains the possibility for people who have never heard the gospel of Jesus Christ from the beginning of the world to enter into the presence and comfort of the one and only Almighty God in the present world and the age to come.
Romans 2:12-16 like all other Biblical passages has been analyzed for two thousand years which has amounted to only a certain amount of success. The scholar of the Word Bible Commentary concludes that Paul does not deny the possibility that there are among the unevangelized Gentiles "doers of the law" who shall be acquitted from God's judgment...