A new subject

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Hello everyone!

I'd like to propose a new subject to discuss since the threads on 
holiness and the sabbath seem to have wound down.  The question is 
this:

**How will God judge people of any culture or age who have not had 
access to the Acts 2:38 message?**

I'm limiting the question to the "Church age" (post-Pentecost).  
Some examples are the pious members of the Protestant reformation 
prior to the restoration of the baptismal formula in 1914.  Another 
example is any tribe of people who haven't heard any portion of the 
gospel message.

There seems to be two obvious answers.  1) Full obedience to Acts 
2:38 is the only legitimate salvation experience.  Therefore, all the 
people in question are necessarily lost.  2) God will judge them 
according to the understanding they had.  Some may have obeyed God to 
the fullest extent they were aware of, and thus may be saved.

The reply "We only know that they are in the hands of a just God" is 
simply a way of saying that we don't know how God will judge them.  
Let's not waste bandwidth.  If we don't know, then we just don't know!

Sincerely,

Lynn Childers
Psa. 119:71, 138:8
For the glory of Christ and the ingathering of His church

lchilder@navajo.astate.edu