On Non-belief

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I see you avoided the question FTR.

I presume you were talking about your god's justice. If so, then no, I didn't avoid the question.

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The Tibetan monk won't ever come across Delusion 11, nor will an Eskimo, or exotic tribes hidden in rain forests. All these will burn to a crisp for something they were completely unaware of.

FtR, I really do believe you are objecting to something very very few people actually believe, i.e. that people are condemned because they do not intellectually know Jesus Christ by name. It is well understood that OT people had saving faith (goodwill from a belief in God) long before the first advent. People unaware of the gospel because of their remoteness in space will be treated no differently than those who were remote in time.

"By faith Abel offered God a better sacrifice than Cain did. By faith he was commended as a righteous man, when God spoke well of his offerings. ...By faith Enoch was taken from this life, so that he did not experience death...before he was taken, he was commended as one who pleased God...without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him...By faith Noah, ...in holy fear built an ark to save his family...and became heir of the righteousness that comes by faith...by faith Abraham, when called to go to a place he would later receive as his inheritance, obeyed and went, even though he did not know where he was going...All these people were still living by faith when they died. They did not receive the things promised; they only saw them and welcomed them from a distance." Hebrews 11:4-19

Firstly, I don't see how these verses say anything other than "these people knew of God. They had faith in God. They were saved"... the problem hasn't been solved here. Monks -> hell. Eskimos -> hell. Australian Aboriginals -> hell. None of them are aware of your god's existence, and if they are, then it isn't clear to them like it isn't clear to me that the claims of the Bible are true.

Secondly, while it might be true that Christians disagree on the nature of salvation (surprise surprise...) I guess I'm approaching it from what I know, and what I know is that in my every day life, the Christians I know act and talk like it's about knowing and believing in Jesus. I unfortunately had to live through the hardship of losing a friend to suicide, and when I told a leader at youth group that he was a Buddhist, he started sobbing. Pretty evident that even my entire church believes that there's a bunch of propositions that need to be confessed with one's mouth in order to get to the pearly gates.