Under the unscriptural doctrine that ignorance of Christ is no excuse we have millions perhaps billions of people who are to be thrown into the Lake of Fire, whose primary sin is they never have heard of the Lord Jesus.

Little boys and girls in third-world countries who have never heard the name of Jesus, who would be happy members of Sunday schools had they heard, are doomed to spend eternity in an unimaginable horror. This is because spiritually lazy, lukewarm American Christians (who to be sure are about to be raptured into air-conditioned comfort in Paradise) never sought Christ fervently enough to find out what they were supposed to do in the Body of Christ.

Can't you imagine? Here stands a young boy in front of God. "My boy, your destiny is to be hurled into the Lake of Fire with the devil and his angels."

"Why"?

"Because you did not accept My Son, Jesus Christ."

"Where is He that I might accept Him?"

"It is too late now. The rules are the rules."

Huge angels pick up the screaming youngster and hurl him into the lake that burns with fire and sulfur.

Then Almighty God says: "You can see in this incident My love and righteousness. There is no name given under Heaven by which a person may be saved. This little boy did not call on the name of Jesus, Therefore, in My righteousness and justice I have thrown him into the Lake of Fire."

At this the holiest of angels cried out, "Just and true are thy judgments, who dwellest between the cherubim."

And many voices in Heaven and upon the earth said "Amen and Amen."

This is the nonsensical doctrine of the Christian churches in the United States of America.

I do not teach that a person can hear the Gospel, reject it, and then be saved by his own righteous behavior. But I most assuredly do teach from the Scriptures that we are judged in terms of the light we have been given, and if we have never heard the Gospel, we certainly will not be judged by the Gospel.

If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not be guilty of sin. Now, however, they have no excuse for their sin. (John 15:22)

If I had not done among them what no one else did, they would not be guilty of sin. But now they have seen these miracles, and yet they have hated both me and my Father. (John 15:24)

God will give to each person according to what he has done.  To those who by persistence in doing good seek glory, honor and immortality, he will give eternal life. (Romans 2:6,7)

Once I was alive apart from law; but when the commandment came, sin sprang to life and I died. (Romans 7:9

To be continued.