(June 12, 2014 at 12:26 pm)Lek Wrote: God wouldn't require people who have never had the chance to know Christ to believe in him. They would only be responsible for responding to the light which he had given them, which would have been revealed to them through creation.
So christian evangelism really puts our souls in danger? How perverse!
"Eskimo: "If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?"
Priest: "No, not if you did not know."
Eskimo: "Then why did you tell me?"
--Anne Dillard
Mary McCarthy recalls worrying about the same problem in her autobiography Memories of a Catholic Girlhood . She didn't want her protestant grandfather to hear the good catholic news for fear he would not believe and therefore go to hell. In ignorance, he was safe.
If there is a god, I want to believe that there is a god. If there is not a god, I want to believe that there is no god.
