Can one be saved without any knowledge of Christ?

[Fastfredy0]

We're talking about those humans born in last 2000 years and not about people with mental deficiencies, babies, age of accountability, etc.

 

[JLB]

We're talking about those humans born in last 2000 years and not about people with mental deficiencies, babies, age of accountability, etc.

No.

A person is not saved apart from Christ: apart from hearing and believing the Gospel.


Otherwise you are promoting a "Christ-less" salvation; a salvation without Christ.


Paul says it this way --

• And how shall they believe in Him of whom they have not heard?

How then shall they call on Him in whom they have not believed? And how shall they believe in Him of whom they have not heard? And how shall they hear without a preacher? 15 And how shall they preach unless they are sent? As it is written:
“How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the gospel of peace,
Who bring glad tidings of good things!” Romans 10:14-15

 

[Vinny37]

Saved is a very broad term. Without any intellectual knowledge of Christ (who began around 6 BC), can one be saved from…

A mortal enemy?

Economic poverty?

A fatal illness?

Depression?

Hell on Earth?

Ultimate damnation?

Assuming the latter is meant, I’d answer Yes. If you ask, Without any intellectual knowledge of Christ, can one be saved into Christ? I’d answer No. I am an inexclusivist.

 

[Fastfredy0]

Assuming the latter is meant, I’d answer Yes. If you ask, Without any intellectual knowledge of Christ, can one be saved into Christ? I’d answer No. I am an inexclusivist.

I was using "saved" in the sense of spending eternity in heaven; which also means being saved from hell.

You should outline just other gospel whereby you think one can be saved without knowledge of Christ. Maybe it's an easier way.

 

[Vinny37]

I was using "saved" in the sense of spending eternity in heaven; which also means being saved from hell.

You should outline just other gospel whereby you think one can be saved without knowledge of Christ. Maybe it's an easier way.

I had assumed you had meant such a definition, though I pointed out the imprecision which is fairly typical in Evangelical circles.

Before sending me to Galatians, be aware that even Calvin accepted that Cornelius would have been saved - in the ultimate sense of that word - had he died before hearing Peter. John Wesley likewise assumed that folk could be ultimately 'saved' without the ευαγγελιον - he rightly continued to do his job of evangelism.