21st March 2014, 07:59 AM
I have always wanted to debate creationists about God's intentions to those who were born and died before Christ's message reached them. If we accept for the sake of argument that the earth is 6000 years old, and that the Good News only reached the UK a maximum of 2000 years ago, this means that everyone born before this point, some 4000 years of souls, cannot be in heaven. So where are these people? Is god so strict that they're in Hell, and if so did he really create a system where people were born to fail for thousands of years? Or is he all love in which case do good pagans go to heaven? If the latter whats the point of being a Christian if good people go to heaven? Or perhaps Christ's central message, regardless of what the Church has added on, simply to love thy neighbour, is enough? Are there any creationists out there who would care to comment?