In a recent Ethnos 360 magazine [1] on a page asking for donations, the advertiser gives the following statistics. They state there are about 6,900 languages in the world. Only 531 have the complete Bible and fewer than 2,000 languages have the New Testament. Yet 87% of Americans think everyone in the world has the Bible.
So if a majority of the world’s population does not have access to the Bible, they most likely do not know about Jesus and his death for our sins. The Christian faith teaches this knowledge and acceptance of this fact is essential for our sins to be forgiven and for us to go to heaven. The question that is immediately raised is: How can God condemn to hell all these people who have no knowledge of Jesus and his death for our sins? Why would God construct our existence so that a majority of the world’s population would not have knowledge of Jesus? There has to be an answer and we have proposed one in my book and blog.
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[1] Ethnos360 advertisement, Ethnos 360, Volume 82, Issue 1, 2019, p. 13.
