Johnny Skeptic

If the spread of the Gospel message is a good thing, why did God allow hundreds of millions of people to die without telling them about it? In addition, why should any Christian make it a priority to tell people about the Gospel message since that is obviously not a top priority for God or he would do much more to help people know about it than he has?

Starlock

Potential Rebuttle 1: everyone is already aware and has knowledge of God's existence, but some choose to be ignorant of the truth. Thus nobody died without having the word of God available to them.

Potential Rebuttle 2: who says that everyone has to know the Gospel in the first place? Just because it is a good thing doesn't mean everyone absolutely must know it before they die.

Potential Rebuttle 3: God works through human beings to spread His message. Thus if people do not spread the message, than nobody will have knowledge of God (this one is incompatible with Rebuttle 1)

Johnny Skeptic

But everyone is not aware of God's SPECIFIC existence and will, and if the Great Commission was about anything, it was about letting as many people as possible know about the specific existence and will of the God of the Bible. Hebrews 8:6 says "But now hath he obtained a more excellent ministry, by how much also he is the mediator of a better covenant, which was established upon better promises." Surely the writer meant that telling as many people as possible about the more excellent covenant would be a good thing.

I never said that everyone has to know the Gospel. My topic title says 'Is the spread of the Gospel message a good thing?" Do you not assume that to a loving God the spread of his message would not only be a good thing, but a very good thing, especially if he gave up something of great price to achieve it?

If that is true, then it is sufficient reason for people to reject God because of his apathy. It is my position that if God is loving, he would be more involved in spreading the Gospel message.

Do you adhere to any of the arguments that you used? What is your world view? What is your purpose here at the Secular Web?

Truth_Seeker

Actually, fundamentalist churches make this very point all the time. They beg for more money to spend on foreign missions because so many of these people have never heard the "good news", and are dying and going to hell. I agree! I mean, if hell is real then someone needs to do something to stop this mass exodus to hell. Apparently God doesn't care.....else he would do more to get his message to everyone.