Would God Send You To Hell Because You Haven't Heard Of Jesus?

At first, this may seem like the common question of the unevangelized, which asks, what happens to those who have never heard of Jesus? What is their fate? However, this question actually takes a side, that they go to hell, and it is because of their absence of knowing about Jesus that they are going to hell for.

However, that second assumption is completely unjustified. God does not send you to hell because you have never heard of Jesus, rather, God sends you to hell because you have sinned. That’s a very basic concept of Biblical Christianity, and I can see why one might lose hold of that idea when posed with this question, because it has rhetorical force.

The rhetoric is supposed to make it seem unfair that some people go to heaven and the rest don’t. However, we must keep in mind that all have sinned and the wages of sin are death, so we all deserve death. With this sober reminder, we see that if this is unfair to anybody, this is unfair to those who are going to heaven, not to hell. Why? Because those who are forgiven don’t deserve the forgiveness. Anybody who doesn’t accept this forgiveness is getting their just desserts.

Imagine two inmates in jail. One gets a pardon from the President and is released, while the other, who doesn’t get the pardon, remains in jail. Does the inmates who remains in jail have a legitimate complaint if he says that it is unfair to him that he wasn’t released, even though he did the crime? I think not. It’s unfair to the inmate who was released because he didn’t deserve the pardon. He deserved to stay in jail.

So the point this rhetorical question is trying to make not only false, but it turns out the very opposite is true.

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