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What about people of other cultures, ancient Chinese, ancient Australians, Islamic, Hindu, etc?

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No one will be condemned to hell by God because of something that they did not know.

Deuteronomy 4:

19 Beware lest you raise your eyes to heaven, and when you see the sun and the moon and the stars, all the host of heaven, you be drawn away and bow down to them and serve them, things that the LORD your God has allotted to all the peoples under the whole heaven.
These people knew the sun, moon, and stars but not the LORD. God would not send them all to hell wholesale.

Can people who don't have the spiritual knowledge of Jesus be saved?

Yes, Matthew 5:

3“Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
You will be judged based on what you have heard and seen, not on what you do not know, John 9:

41 Jesus said to them, “If you were blind, you would have no guilt; but now that you say, ‘We see,’ your guilt remains.
Satan fools some people, but everyone, every culture everywhere in space and time, knows the golden rule, Matthew 7:

12 in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you, for this sums up the Law and the Prophets.
Paul elaborated on the heart and conscience of Gentiles in Romans 2:

14 For when Gentiles, who do not have the law, by nature do what the law requires, they are a law to themselves, even though they do not have the law. 15 They show that the work of the law is written on their hearts, while their conscience also bears witness, and their conflicting thoughts accuse or even excuse them 16 on that day when, according to my gospel, God judges the secrets of men by Christ Jesus.
Jesus will judge their works according to their own conscience, Revelation 2:

23b I am the One who searches minds and hearts, and I will repay each of you according to your deeds.
The judgment on you depends on how much you know and see. This principle can be applied to the souls of babies, children, and people with mental health issues. You are only responsible for what your conscience can teach you, Matthew 19:

14 Jesus said, “Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these.”
Jeroboam was a bad king. His child was sick. He sent his wife to consult the prophet Ahijah, who said to her in 1 Kings 14:

12Arise therefore, go to your house. When your feet enter the city, the child shall die. 13 And all Israel shall mourn for him and bury him, for he only of Jeroboam shall come to the grave, because in him there is found something pleasing to the LORD, the God of Israel, in the house of Jeroboam.
The child was pleasing to the Lord, but he would die—not his bad father Jeroboam. The child was taken out of the bad environment. He will inherit eternal life.

Ultimately, God has the final say, Romans 9:

15 For he says to Moses, “I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.”
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These people knew the sun, moon, and stars but not the LORD. God would not send them all to hell wholesale.

Can people who don't have the spiritual knowledge of Jesus be saved?
Not sure what you meant by sending them to hell. Hell is the suffering we experience in these earthen bodies of death. Yoked with Christ working in us he makes our burden lighter. We pray gives this day our daily bread.

Its appointed for all men to die once.
 
Can people who don't have the spiritual knowledge of Jesus be saved?

Yes, Matthew 5: 3“Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

Are you saying the "poor in spirit" have no spiritual knowledge of Jesus ?
 

What about people of other cultures, ancient Chinese, ancient Australians, Islamic, Hindu,​


I would think the difference.

The faithless pagan cultures look to the temporal things seen. which is not true faith that comes from hearing of Christ's understanding as a labor of His love that he works with those yoked with Christ. We have no image to bow down to .

It appears the father of lies would say God is a Jewish man. He is no man. Christian's walk by the faith of Christ. If any has not that Spirit of faith, then they do not belong to him

Many even today seek after the pagan foundation. . like the example in 1 Samael 1:1-8

Out of sight out of mind.no belief in an unseen God. The reason God gave over the faithless Jews who in jealousy of the pagan nations demanded a king the abomination of desolation . God revealed to Samuel the prophet\ apostl., It's not you they do not desire to reign over them but myself as the King of kings. The King of heaven gave them over to that which they should not of until the time of reformation (Hebrew 9)

1 Corinthians 2:9 But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.

Acts 4:19-21 King James Version19 But Peter and John answered and said unto them, Whether it be right in the sight of God to hearken unto you more than unto God, judge ye. For we cannot but speak the things which we have seen and heard. So when they had further threatened them, they let them go, finding nothing how they might punish them, because of the people: for all men glorified God for that which was done.

 
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