I believe it is possible for a person who has never heard the message of salvation in Christ to have a saving relationship with God. Divine revelation is a topic that has interested and bothered me ever since I was a little boy. I would always ask my parents questions about kids in other parts of the world and people of other religions that have never been given the chance to ask Jesus in to their heart. My argument pretty much parallels the argument for natural theology. As Erickson puts it: Creation is the natural and valid revelation of God to all persons, at all times and in all places. All persons possess the rational capacity to comprehend and understand God’s natural revelation in creation. Therefore, natural revelation is an adequate means by which people may know and experience a personal and saving relationship with the eternal God.
I think that people have the ability to be touched by God through nature and the Holy Spirit without necessarily hearing about Jesus. Psalm 19 says “The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands. Maybe someone in the hills of Fiji was touched by the Holy Spirit or healed by a miracle and they decided to dedicate their l
God’s grace is said many times in scripture and I would encourage anyone that has a very narrow mind set about this to think about our great God. Can he not be the same daddy he is to us to a little boy in Fiji who has never heard of Jesus but believes in God? Isn’t his power and love larger than any of us can fathom? I am not saying that we should not try to spread the word of Jesus because I think everything that is said about him in the Bible is true. I am only saying that there may be other ways in which people who have never heard the name Jesus, can still be our brothers and sisters in heaven.
The critics of the argument of Natural Theology would say that Jesus is the only means for making personal salvation available to sinful people. All persons are sinners and therefore only through Jesus Christ can sinful people be saved from the wrath to come. They also argue that people can not use the cosmological or teleological theories to derive the existence of God. Because these arguments do not actually prove that Jesus Christ is the only way, then they are not a good enough means for a person to know God. I think that people have good enough reason to think there is a God without us telling them. Yet I do believe that
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