https://youtu.be/HORwhXSgelQ?si=IOHuKsHTFm9JcsXW
My reaction:
At the end of the last video, this is noted:
"That there is a more serious objection to Christian particularism: 'the problem of those who have never heard of Christ. If Jesus is the only way to God, then what is the fate of those who never hear of Jesus?'"
Back again then to these guys...
"Imagine hypothetically three Christian missionaries set out to save the souls of three different native tribes..."
...noted above.
Thus...
"Early Christians proclaimed that Jesus was the only way to salvation, the only way to forgiveness, and eternal life, the only way to God."
Nowadays however others object and find this "deeply offensive".
"Why? Isn't it possible that Jesus is THE ONLY WAY?", asks the narrator.
But the objectors note that if Jesus is the only way, what of those who go from the cradle to the grave and never heard of Him? Or those who as children are indoctrinated to believe in an entirely different God?
"They don't have a chance to be saved...but they do. The Bible says that God wants all persons to be saved. Those who never heard of Christ will not be judged by what they DON'T know, they'll be judged on the basis of what they DO know."
And, in fact, there are two truths that everyone knows because the Christian God revealed them to everyone:
1] "He exists. And we all know this by observing the natural world around us".
In other words, the beastly, savage survival of the fittest slaughterhouse that nature itself is? Or the existence of these...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_earthquakes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_l ... _eruptions
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_t ... l_cyclones
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tsunamis
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_landslides
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fires
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_epidemics
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_deadliest_floods
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_t ... ore_deaths
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_diseases
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_extinction_events
..."acts of God"?
Besides, many of these folks...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_r ... traditions
...agree that God does exist. But if it's morality, immortality and salvation you're after, it's not Christianity that will save your soul. It's their God. And, no doubt, they have similar arguments regarding those who have never heard of their God.
2] "And, second, there is a moral law. We all know this by experiencing our conscience within us. Everyone one of us has a moral sense of right and wrong."
Again, and again and again: Okay, but how is this not rooted existentially -- historically, culturally, personally -- in the individual lives that we live. Thus explaining all of these...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_r ... traditions
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_p ... ideologies
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_s ... philosophy
...One True Paths to Enlightenment. And then for each religious denomination, their own spirituality, their own God, their own moral Commandments and Judgment Day.
No problem. "Somehow" the Christian God will "just know" who is to be saved and who is to be damned.
But what about those from the second tribe above? The Christian missionaries tried to convert them but failed. So, were their souls safe as long as their belief in a God/the God excluded contact with the Christians? But once Christ was revealed to them and they "freely" rejected Him, they are Hell bound? Even the babies and the infants and the children?
Do some folks just experience the "bad luck" of having been born at the wrong time and place before Christ Himself was even around?
Then [of course] back to the Bible:
"According to the Bible, the times and the places that people are born is not the result of an accident...rather GOD DECIDES where and when each person will live. So, it's possible that God has so ordered the world that anyone who would believe in Christ if he heard about Him is created at a time and place in history where he DOES hear about Him?"
Sure, if you can convince yourself that this actually makes sense given, say, the real world that we actually live in, fine, whatever works to sustain your spiritual comfort and consolation.
In other words, it's "possible" that the Christian God so ordered the world this way, but how on Earth is that the same as actually demonstrating that it is in fact true. Especially with all the others out there making the same claims for their God, Gods and/or religious paths?
The narrator then notes that, "our eternal destiny truly lies in our own hands. How about you?"
Yeah, how about you? In particular, those among us who, even though the Christian God gave them all they needed in order to accept Jesus Christ as their personal savior, they chose another God or No God instead?
Instead [of course] back to the Christian Bible...
"God made every nation of men that they should inhabit the whole Earth and He marked out their APPOINTED TIMES IN HISTORY and the boundaries of their lands. God did this so that they would SEEK Him and perhaps REACH OUT for Him and FIND Him, though He is not far from any of us". Acts 17: 26-27
And that's proof enough, right?