# What about those who haven't heard the message of Christ?

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**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [July 23, 2003, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-about-those-who-havent-heard-the-message-of-christ/190434 "2003-07-23T18:04:28Z")\
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**Author:** ![TVAA](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c57346/32.png) [@TVAA](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TVAA)\
**Post date:** [July 29, 2003, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-about-those-who-havent-heard-the-message-of-christ/190434/81 "2003-07-29T00:22:43Z")

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Of course, there _is_ the greater problem of why an infinitely loving and merciful God would allow “Hell” in the first place…

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**Author:** ![Elyzabeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dfb087/32.png) [@Elyzabeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elyzabeth)\
**Post date:** [July 29, 2003, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-about-those-who-havent-heard-the-message-of-christ/190434/82 "2003-07-29T01:23:31Z")

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Basicly, You can’t have one without the other. If there is to be heaven there has to be hell. Just as there is a positive element there must be an equal negative. Everything balances out in the end.

I still believe through all this discussion, that the soul of every human, whatever they believe will unite together where ever the souls wind up. Call it heaven or what have you. Hell is what you make of life when you are in the physical form. So to go back to the original question, Jesus isn’t going to help that child. No missionary with sweet words from her book of testament, or chanting words from the medicine man as he shakes his juju stick. The child’s soul will be saddened but would have learned, and perhaps if you believe, will come back to another physical form to learns it’s next lesson in life. Let’s just pray it’s a better life.

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**Author:** ![RoundGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/90ced4/32.png) [@RoundGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RoundGuy)\
**Post date:** [July 29, 2003, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-about-those-who-havent-heard-the-message-of-christ/190434/83 "2003-07-29T01:51:58Z")

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NaSultainne,  
I believe TVAA, on at least two occasions, has given us the hint that we’ve taken this hijack too far. I believe he is correct.

If you wish to repost your last message as a new thread, I will answer it point by point. If not, I will humbly allow you the last word. In either case, rest assured that we will continue this discussion at some future date. I’m not going anywhere…

All yours TVAA.

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**Author:** ![tracer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tracer/32/20578_2.png) [@tracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tracer)\
**Post date:** [July 29, 2003, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-about-those-who-havent-heard-the-message-of-christ/190434/84 "2003-07-29T22:40:13Z")

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> \*Originally posted by Elyzabeth \*  
> \*\*The child’s soul will be saddened but would have learned, and perhaps if you believe, will come back to another physical form to learns it’s next lesson in life. Let’s just pray it’s a better life. \*\*

Hrm … I didn’t think Reincarnation was supposed to be part of the standard Christian mythos.

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