What sends people to Hell?

[Iconoclast]

That is my claim. Other wise God and scripture are a liar.

This is not true at all.......Romans 10 says how shall they hear without a preacher.......you say they can....you are wrong.

 

[Van]

I have a really good friend who preaches that the only sin that sends someone to hell is unbelief. I think scripture teaches differently. I know that he and probably you would answer the objection but some people are not guilty of active "unbelief"... like those who live and die never hearing about Jesus much less the gospel.

The verse you cite does not exactly say that "unbelief" is the sin that condemns. The second phrase of John 3:18 says that man is condemned already... iow's prior to his unbelief and remains condemned because of unbelief.

Rebellion and sin against God is what condemned Adam's race. All are guilty of that and those who have not had the scriptures have the conscience that God gave them (Romans 2).

Not sure when your time zone "prior to unbelief" occurs, but at conception we do not believe, and thus are condemned at conception.

Also, I do not make an "active" unbelief" distinction, so a person never exposed to the gospel would be in a state of unbelief, and therefore condemned.

 

[Iconoclast]

Not sure when your time zone "prior to unbelief" occurs, but at conception we do not believe, and thus are condemned at conception.

Also, I do not make an "active" unbelief" distinction, so a person never exposed to the gospel would be in a state of unbelief, and therefore condemned.

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