Respectfully, you just don't understand Christian doctrine. Consider this: Would a person who has never heard of gravity be spared if he stepped off a ten-story building?
"Respectfully, you just don't understand Christian doctrine. Consider this: Would a person who has never heard of gravity be spared if he stepped off a ten-story building?"
Bad analogy - God is not an unfeeling force of nature.
So you are actually saying *with certainty* that people who died without ever hearing the gospel message are in hell?
On what or whose authority is that claim based?
BTW, I am a Christian. Whatever "Christian doctrine" you are referring to could be anything you and I happen to disagree on.
From tripping over a couple steps days, months or years before the possibility of that event even occurring...the person would understand gravity before he or she knew what gravity was. [I like it to how my 1 yr old carefully gets down onto the floor, after he propped himself up to stand. He only had to be careless a couple of times (with someone there to catch him of course) to understand balance and the force of gravity.] That experience alone would render the possibility of stepping off a 10 story building highly unlikely.