Really ?
Perhaps you could add that point occasionally, as the thread grows longer.
Even the ignorant will be judged by their conscience.
Since Adam and Eve ate of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, men have had a conscience to determine if their deeds are good or evil.
With the added caveat from this post, the dynamic of the thread has changed.
I agree. I should create another thread for post #121 above. Back to the OP, scripture declares belief in Christ is necessary to be saved, and disbelief condemns:
14 "And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up,
15 "that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life.
16 "For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.
17 "For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved.
18 "He who believes in Him is not condemned; but he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. (Jn. 3:14-18 NKJ)
Therefore if judged by conscience, everyone still is condemned because they fail in one point and therefore are guilty of all.
It is the same for those judged by the Law, failing in even one point makes one guilty of all:
11 For there is no partiality with God.
12 For as many as have sinned without law will also perish without law, and as many as have sinned in the law will be judged by the law
13 (for not the hearers of the law are just in the sight of God, but the doers of the law will be justified;
14 for when Gentiles, who do not have the law, by nature do the things in the law, these, although not having the law, are a law to themselves,
15 who show the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and between themselves their thoughts accusing or else excusing them)
16 in the day when God will judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ, according to my gospel.
(Rom. 2:11-16 NKJ)
For whoever shall keep the whole law, and yet stumble in one point, he is guilty of all. (Jas. 2:10 NKJ)
So one one is saved by their conscience. It may excuse us for many sins, but not all. AND that means no one can be saved by their conscience, "as many as have sinned without law WILL ALSO PERISH without law."
Therefore, there is no other name under the heavens than Jesus to be saved; one cannot be saved "in the name of conscience":
"Nor is there salvation in any other, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved." (Acts 4:12 NKJ)
As that leaves billions of people to perish because they were ignorant of Christ, there must be a way the gospel of Christ is made known to everyone born since the foundation of the world, so they can be judged.
Why? God always does what is right, just, true to His Word. He says belief or non-belief are the only grounds for salvation and condemntion. Therefore, all born since the foundation of the world hear the gospel of Christ, somehow.
That "way" must be revealed in scripture because it is God's Word 100% true.
I revealed how God does it, elegantly true to Scripture, the very scriptures Christians despise....those that show the gospel is preached to everyone who dies, regardless when they die. God inhabits eternity, the life communicated through the Sacrifice of Christ is made through the Eternal Spirit, from the timeless Holy of Holies in heaven. It transcends space-time.
Everything I discussed is revealed in this context:
11 They will not teach every man his fellow citizen,and every man his brother, saying, 'Know the Lord,'for all will know me,from the least of them to the greatest of them.
12 For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness.I will remember their sins and lawless deeds no more."
13 In that he says, "A New Covenant," he has made the first old. But that which is becoming old and grows aged is near to vanishing away.
RPTE Hebrews 9:1 Now indeed even the first covenant had ordinances of divine service, and an earthly sanctuary.
2 For a tabernacle was prepared. In the first part were the lampstand, the table, and the show bread; which is called the Holy Place.
3 After the second veil was the tabernacle which is called the Holy of Holies,
4 having a golden altar of incense, and the ark of the covenant overlaid on all sides with gold, in which was a golden pot holding the manna, Aaron's rod that budded, and the tablets of the covenant;
5 and above it cherubim of glory overshadowing the mercy seat, of which things we cannot speak now in detail.
6 Now these things having been thus prepared, the priests go in continually into the first tabernacle, accomplishing the services,
7 but into the second the high priest alone, once in the year, not without blood, which he offers for himself, and for the errors of the people.
8 The Holy Spirit is indicating this, that the way into the Holy Place was not yet revealed while the first tabernacle was still standing;
9 which is a symbol of the present age, where gifts and sacrifices are offered that are incapable, concerning the conscience, of making the worshipper perfect;
10 being only (with meats and drinks and various washings) fleshly ordinances, imposed until a time of reformation.
11 But Christ having come as a high priest of the good things to come, through the greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this creation,
12 nor yet through the blood of goats and calves, but through his own blood, entered in once for all into the Holy Place, having obtained eternal redemption.
13 For if the blood of goats and bulls, and the ashes of a heifer sprinkling those who have been defiled, sanctify to the cleanness of the flesh:
14 how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
15 For this reason he is the mediator of a New Covenant, since a death has occurred for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first covenant, that those who have been called may receive the promise of the eternal inheritance.
16 For where a last will and testament is, there must of necessity be the death of him who made it.
17 For a will is in force where there has been death, for it is never in force while he who made it lives.
18 Therefore even the first covenant has not been dedicated without blood.
19 For when every commandment had been spoken by Moses to all the people according to the Law, he took the blood of the calves and goats with water and scarlet wool and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book itself and all the people,
20 saying, "This is the blood of the covenant which God has commanded you."
21 Moreover he sprinkled the tabernacle and all the vessels of the ministry in like manner with the blood.
22 According to the Law, nearly everything is cleansed with blood, and apart from shedding of blood there is no remission.
23 It was necessary therefore that the copies of the things in the heavens should be cleansed with these; but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.
24 For Christ hasn't entered into holy places made with hands, which are representations of the true, but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us;
25 nor yet that he should offer himself often, as the high priest enters into the holy place year by year with blood not his own,
26 or else he must have suffered often since the foundation of the world. But now once at the end of the ages, he has been revealed to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.
27 Inasmuch as it is appointed for men to die once, and after this, judgment,
28 so Christ also, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time, without sin, to those who are eagerly waiting for him for salvation.
RPTE Hebrews 10:1 For the Law, having a shadow of the good to come, not the very image of the things, they can never with the same sacrifices year by year, which they offer continually, make perfect those who draw near.
2 Or else would not they have ceased to be offered, because the worshippers, having been once purified, would have had no more consciousness of sins?
3 But in those sacrifices there is yearly reminder of sins.
4 For it is impossible that the blood of bulls and goats should take away sins.
5 Therefore when he comes into the world, he says,"Sacrifice and offering you did not desire,but you prepared a body for me;
6 You had no pleasure in whole burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin.
7 Then I said, 'Behold, I have come (in the scroll of the book it is written of me)to do your will, O God.'"
8 Previously saying, "Sacrifices and offerings and whole burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin you did not desire, neither had pleasure in them" (those which are offered according to the Law),
9 then he has said, "Behold, I have come to do your will, O God." He takes away the first, that he may establish the second,
10 by which will we have been sanctified those through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
11 Every priest indeed stands day by day serving and often offering the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins,
12 but he, when he had offered one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down on the right hand of God; (Heb. 8:11-10:12 RPTE)
