Originally posted by oxmixmudd
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I chose not to dwell on that because there isn't anything I can do about it other than tell the people I interact with about Christ. But I can trust that God is good. That the God who would chose to go to the extreme event of becoming a man and living a human life and dying on the cross is NOT going to let anyone go to Hell that doesn't deserve to. If God sends them to Hell, then somehow that is the right thing. If He doesn't then that also is the right thing. What I do know is that we can't find eternity with God by trying to be good. Not because those good deeds are not good. But because they can't compensate for who we are without Christ.
I understand it like this. Without the work that Christ does in a person, that which is in them is like a non-converging arithmetic series. In eternity they will ultimately become truly evil. But with the change that Christ works into a person, In eternity they ultimately become like Christ, and the evil that was part of them is limited and of limited impact and can be covered by Christ's work.
The apparent injustice comes in that not everyone can know about Christ - or so it seems to us. I understand that. I struggle with that too. But in the end I believe God is just and good and merciful.
Consider: Most scientists think there is likely a multiverse, perhaps an infinitude of parallel universes where all possible events do occur. And across this inconceivably large number of universes their are perfect copies of all of us, living out all possible lives as us. If that is true, then somewhere, if there is any set of conditions that will convince you God is real, you have been convinced. And somewhere that fellow in deepest darkest africa that never heard the Gospel in our universe heard it in another one.
If that is reality, then God knows it is reality. And he is NOT then unfair to make things the way they are at all. Because somewhere in the multiverse every person who has ever lived has heard the Gospel, and not only that, has heard it under all possible conditions so that if anywhere the conditions are right for them to accept Christ, they have.
Now to be clear, I am not claiming that is true or the solution to the dilemma presented by the person who never hears the Gospel. What I'm saying is that there are things we simply don't know and can't know about the universe and the God who made it. And somewhere in those things we don't know is the answer to how things can be as they are and God also be Good, and Loving, and Merciful.
If that is reality, then God knows it is reality. And he is NOT then unfair to make things the way they are at all. Because somewhere in the multiverse every person who has ever lived has heard the Gospel, and not only that, has heard it under all possible conditions so that if anywhere the conditions are right for them to accept Christ, they have.
Now to be clear, I am not claiming that is true or the solution to the dilemma presented by the person who never hears the Gospel. What I'm saying is that there are things we simply don't know and can't know about the universe and the God who made it. And somewhere in those things we don't know is the answer to how things can be as they are and God also be Good, and Loving, and Merciful.
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