People with cancer die unless they get a doctor. He’s the only one capable of dealing with it. The problem itself is what condemns people to hell, and if He doesn’t solve the problem then the problem doesn’t get solved.
It’s because belief in Jesus solved a problem. They’ve not been careful to communicate what’s going on here and why belief in Jesus is the pivotal factor. The reason people raise this question is because Christians have not been careful in how they’ve explained their faith. But according to Christian theology, that’s the way it would be.) It just seems absurd that someone like Hitler, as evil as he was, could be admitted into God’s holy heaven, and unconscionable that someone like Mother Teresa could be condemned to hell.
(Apparently she does and apparently he didn’t, so this is hypothetical. The more bleak way of saying it is, if a Hitler believes in Jesus, then he goes to heaven, and if a Mother Teresa doesn’t believe in Jesus, then she goes to hell. The notion of forgiveness is collapsed into another kind of statement that I think Christians are guilty of saying by itself, and it creates confusion as a result. Often times when this issue comes up, the question of forgiveness isn’t discussed too much. The Christian theology is that anyone can get forgiven if they believe in Jesus, but if they don’t believe in Jesus they’re not forgiven at all. The important thing is that Charles raised an objection based on the observation of an absurd circumstance it seems could obtain if Christian theology about forgiveness is actually true. Some people have the symptoms of the disease more obviously or in a greater manner than others. Jesus is an antidote to a deadly disease.
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