John 4:23 But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him.
1 John 2:23 Whoever denies the Son does not have the Father either; he who acknowledges the Son has the Father also.
HankD
You also have to take into account Romans 2: 14-15 where Scripture says that if the Gentiles (which also refers to pagan nations) do what the law, that is written on their heart, requires they may or may not be excused on their day of judgment.
ἔθνος éthnos, eth'-nos; probably from
G1486; a race (as of the same habit), i.e. a tribe; specially, a foreign (non-Jewish) one (usually, by implication, pagan):—Gentile, heathen, nation, people.
Someone who through no fault of their own does not know Christ or has a distorted understanding of who He is can also be saved. That is God's call. God is not a moral monster who will condemn the innocent.
This is why private interpretation of Scripture is not biblical. Scripture alone is a false teaching. It is the mark of a cult who think they can pick up an infallible book inspired by God and come to an infallible interpretation apart from the very Church that Christ Himself established for that purpose, so that we would not be like children tossed to and fro by every wind of doctrine brought forth by men.
