Sentences with phrase «never heard the gospel»

What if someone never heard the gospel or was too young to understand it?

He does not have enough knowledge to take him to heaven, but he does have enough sin to send him to hell — the person who never hears of the name of Jesus doesn't go to hell because he has never heard the gospel, he goes to hell because he is a sinner, he is a monster of iniquity, willingly disobedient to his own conscience that screams to him whenever he does wrong (Romans 2:12 - 16)-- and he loves it so...

Paul recognized that he had an opportunity to preach to some men who would probably never hear the Gospel in any other way, and these men had areas of influence and power that most people in the Roman Empire didn't have.

Left unanswered is how this could come to be for those who have never heard the gospel.

While I agree with the first statement, I have reservations about the second, and prefer instead to hold an agnostic yet optimistic view concerning those who have never heard the gospel or who subscribe to other religions.

The obvious question is the age - old dilemma, «What about those who have never heard the Gospel?»

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Weigh in below with your own perspective on what happens to people who have never heard the Gospel.

I think that as people respond to the revelation they have received, God obligates Himself to provide more revelation to them, so that they receive enough revelation from God to either accept the offer of eternal life by faith alone, or to reject such an offer (See What About Those Who Have Never Heard the Gospel?).

The bottom line is this: We don't know for sure exactly what happens to those who have never heard the Gospel.

As for the matter of whether anyone who has never heard the gospel, or has heard it inadequately, can be saved... I leave that up to God — the God who treats all justly and fairly, and who wills that all be reconciled to him.

Even the Old Testament saints, who never heard the gospel as we have, will enjoy eternity with God because of what Jesus did for sinners.

An age - old question is, «What about those who have never heard the gospel?»

I believe that, if my conscience tells me it is unjust for someone who never heard the gospel to suffer eternal torture for being born at the wrong place at the wrong time, I should listen to that conscience.

I personally don't believe that those who have never heard the gospel wind up in hell.

Many postconservatives abandon exclusivism and opt for a new inclusivist view of salvation, believing it is possible for many who never hear the gospel message to be saved.

Best of all, this book closed with several chapters on pertinent theological questions for today, such as how to reconcile the Bible and science, how to understand the violence of God in the Old Testament, and how to make sense of what the Bible teaches about women, homosexuality, and the fate of those who have never heard the gospel.

Many Christians think this passage shows that those who never hear the gospel will be judged by their conscience.

I was not brought up in a Christian home and never heard the gospel preached.

I confess: When I was young, I was a Catholic and was a churchgoer, but have never heard the gospel in the Roman Catholic Church.

Raised in dead denominational Catholic conversos (Jews whose families had escaped the inqusition 1500's) in the SW USA I never heard the gospel of grace or scripture.

ES: So will that person in Borneo — with the right heart who's never heard the gospel — be in eternity with Christ in heaven?

He reminds us that Vatican II does indeed teach us that God offers the possibility of salvation to people who have never heard the gospel, but he then reminds us of the important qualifications that the Council makes, and that many appear to have forgotten.

Depending on your destination, those around you may have never heard the gospel before.

Saturday night found him m a region of the Cumberland Mountains, «where there was no gospel minister for many miles around, and where, as I learned, many of the scattered population had never heard a gospel sermon in all their lives, and where the inhabitants knew no Sabbath only to hunt, and visit, drink and dance.»

Not exact matches

My opinion is that if someone has never heard of Jesus, or heard the gospel, then God would look at them the same way he does an innocent child.

Evidently, you have never heard of John Newton — the former slave trader gave up that vocation upon coming to understand the Gospel of Jesus Christ, became a clergyman, and wrote the words of the great hymn «Amazing Grace» to celebrate and glorify God's unfathomable ability to FORGIVE — which hymn then became an anthem of the Christian anti-slavery movements in both Britain and the United States.

So I ask, because I have never heard someone (you were around GES much more than I) who claimed that this statement under consideration, and this statement alone is the gospel.

But on the other hand if the person hearing the Gospel is religious, hmm then maybe some doctrine is mentioned but the doctrine is to me never associated with a church or denomination, it is the doctrine of Gods Words as it relates to today in say like our dispensation which I never mention that word either.

Finding candidates for the gospel who have never heard the name of Jesus Christ, but who are so ready for the whole Christian message that they simply fall at our feet — this never happens.

@jf well your information about the New Testament is about as accurate as your Old Testament knowledge, The prophecies of the Old testament concerning Christ could not have been written after the fact because we now have the Dead Sea Scrolls, with an almost complete Old Testament dated 100 - 200 years before the birth of Christ, Your interpretation of God at His worst shows a complete lack of understanding as to what was being communicated.We don't know what the original texts of the New Testament were written in as to date there are no original copies available.Greek was the common language of the day.Most of the gospels were reported written somewhere in the 30 year after Christs resurrection time frame, not the unspecified «long after «you reference and three of the authors knew Jesus personally in His earthly ministry, the other Knew Jesus as his savior and was in the company of many who also knew Jesus.You keep referencing changes, «gazillion «was the word used but you never referenced one change, so it is assumed we are to take your word for it.What may we ask are your credentials?Try reading Job your own self, particularly the section were Job says «My ears had heard of you but now my eyes have seen you.Therefore I despise myself and repent in dust and ashes»

I had never heard of Malcolm Guite before I saw this video, but when I heard what he says about art and people and the Gospel and everyone living in the light of Jesus, I discovered that I love him.

My evangelical brothers are in the habit of numbering the lost and those who have never heard of the gospel.

Those who have never heard His name will not be left unsaved, it's those that have heard the gospels and have chosen to reject the gospels the will not have eternal life.

The American missionary who can barely utter one sentence in Russian, and who acts as if the Russians had never heard of the gospel before his own arrival, has been all too common.

Also, you repeatedly failed to see that I am in agreement with you, that there will be many people who will die without hearing the gospel, and thereby, feeling that I never answered your logic scenario.

Sorry, I should say, I recognize that 1 Corinthians 15 isn't the entire «Crusade Evangelism Gospel» (something I had never heard of, until you mentioned it.)

I found the speech to be very moving.I also liked what the president said about Billy Graham.There was a time when this country seemed more at peace within.Billy Graham seemed to command respect from most quarters, and he had the role of a patriarchal leader, in his own way.I'm sure he has political views, but I have never heard him say things that are polarizing, unlike too many ministers today.This country needs another Billy Graham, who will stand for the gospel, and his convictions; but who doesn't major in alienating others.

They have stressed obedience to the Lord's command «Go, and teach all nations» but have been shy of stating the conviction of Scripture and Tradition, up to and including Vatican II, that unless they hear the Gospel and enter the Church, many will remain slaves of the devil, the flesh and the world, and may never attain the eternal life Christ won for them upon the Cross.

I heard one pastor last year on the radio say that he never shares the gospel with a child until they are 12 or 13, because he said they can't understand it until then.

Until some statements by Jeremy, I have never heard any evangelical ever who would deny that indeed the term «the gospel» does have such a technical usage.

Looking back on the experience, he said that he had never «heard» the Gospel of grace until that day.

Yet, many people in our culture claim to be Christians but have never heard a comprehensive gospel message.

We have never heard of a mission field that was gospel - centered, faming the name of Jesus prior to the missionary arriving.

Never take what you hear in critique groups or workshops as gospel.