What happens to those who haven't heard the Gospel?

[Lucy-Pevensie]

God is above all, just.
He isn't going to condemn people who haven't had a chance to decide.
People may not have had the Gospel preached to them word for word but they can still cry out to God sincerely in their hearts.
They can also wilfully reject him.

Romans 2
12 All who sin apart from the law will also perish apart from the law, and all who sin under the law will be judged by the law. 13 For it is not those who hear the law who are righteous in God’s sight, but it is those who obey the law who will be declared righteous. 14 (Indeed, when Gentiles, who do not have the law, do by nature things required by the law, they are a law for themselves, even though they do not have the law. 15 They show that the requirements of the law are written on their hearts, their consciences also bearing witness, and their thoughts sometimes accusing them and at other times even defending them.) 16 This will take place on the day when God judges people’s secrets through Jesus Christ, as my gospel declares.

 

[notuptome]

Ever heard of postmortem evangelism theology? I haven't heard many people give this a consideration.

What happened to all of the people around the world who weren't in close enough proximity to Noah to hear that God was going to flood the world? The vast majority of people on the planet died in their sins and had no idea what hit them or why.

What was the response of Jesus to this? He went and preached the gospel to them in prison:

1 Peter 3:19-20
19By which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison;
20Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water.

So there is a precedent established here. Does God preach to spirits in the afterlife who didn't receive the Gospel of Christ?

How can someone believe in the name of the only begotten Son of God if they haven't heard the gospel? Jesus puts it like this:

John 3:18
18He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.

It deserves no consideration. It is pure heresy and error.

It is appointed unto man once to die and then the judgment. There are no afterlife conversions.

Heb 9:27 And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:

Jesus preached to the spirits in prison not to give them opportunity to convert but to demonstrate His victory over sin and death.

For the cause of Christ
Roger

 

[Runningman]

It deserves no consideration. It is pure heresy and error.

It is appointed unto man once to die and then the judgment. There are no afterlife conversions.

Heb 9:27 And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:

Jesus preached to the spirits in prison not to give them opportunity to convert but to demonstrate His victory over sin and death.

For the cause of Christ
Roger

No it's really not as cut-n-dry as you say it is. The Bible is pretty clear they God judges the living and the dead and that the dead get the gospel preached to them. I just showed you scriptural support and I'm barely scratching the surface on what else there is to form this theology.

I'm not even surprised anymore when people reject Biblical truths. Suit yourself, but here's some more scripture.

1 Peter 4:5-6
5Who shall give account to him that is ready to judge the quick and the dead.
6For for this cause was the gospel preached also to them that are dead, that they might be judged according to men in the flesh, but live according to God in the spirit.