I'll discuss things with Agnostics, Atheists, Muslims, Buddhists, whoever.
IMO, when Christ came it was to open up the way to God for the entire world.....not just for the few believers within the 31% for whom Christianity is their 'native' religion.
I believe that there will be multitudes who will stand before God in his New Jerusalem, redeemed by the Blood of Christ on the basis of faith in such as God reveals to them and requires of them, yet who will never have seen a Bible or heard what we call the Gospel Message.
Few can stretch their faith to that extent.....yet they can't tell me on what other basis those multitudes will either perish or inherit eternal life.
(I tend towards Annihilationism rather than Universal Restoration.....but anything rather than Eternal Hellfire for other than the Devil, the Beast, and the False Prophet)
IMO, when Christ came it was to open up the way to God for the entire world.....not just for the few believers within the 31% for whom Christianity is their 'native' religion.
I believe that there will be multitudes who will stand before God in his New Jerusalem, redeemed by the Blood of Christ on the basis of faith in such as God reveals to them and requires of them, yet who will never have seen a Bible or heard what we call the Gospel Message.
Few can stretch their faith to that extent.....yet they can't tell me on what other basis those multitudes will either perish or inherit eternal life.
(I tend towards Annihilationism rather than Universal Restoration.....but anything rather than Eternal Hellfire for other than the Devil, the Beast, and the False Prophet)