Their blood is on our hands

"But GOD shows His anger from Heaven against all sinful, wicked people who push the truth away from themselves. For the truth about GOD is known to them instinceively. GOD has put this knowledge in their hearths. From teh time the world was created people have seen the earth adn sky adn all that GOD made. They can clearly see His invisible quealities-His eternal power and divine nature. So that have no excuse whatsoever for not knowing GOD." Romans 1-18-20

Being an Intercultural Studies major, this is certainly a topic that has been on my mind quite a bit throughout my life. What about those who have never heard? Do they just automatically go to Hell? How can GOD really be all loving and merciful as well as just if He sends people who don't know any better to eternal punsishment. Is that any different than children? Paul addresses this problem in Romans in a passage that is often glossed over by teh more "let's jsut feel good" sects of Christianity. Honestly, we have no excuse. Think about it for one moment. Would it really make any sense for those who haven't heard to automatically go to Heaven? If someone was a Christian by default because they had never heard, what would be the worst thing you could do for them? Tell them about JESUS! Then they would have a choice and would no longer have a get out of Hell free card. In that instance, they could live however they wanted but have no consequences. It makes no sense. Paul saw that it would make no sense, but in a different way. When we see a watch, we know there must be a watchmaker. When we see a building we know there must be an architect, builders, contractors, etc. So how can we look at creation and not know there is a creator? We are, as Paul said, without excuse. So we better get going to tell the people who have never heard or the blood from their eternal seperation from GOD is on our hands.