Date: 2026-07-15

Before anything below is read. It is up to you to understand and check full context and conclusions based upon Scripture. If there are any references mentioned to Scripture, read the whole chapter, or rather the whole book. 

When we talk about salvation through Jesus Christ, the non-repented - who have not studied the Word of God, always get to a particular question or being judgemental that God is not just. But be aware of that thought, it is sin already. God is Just. The question in particular or the judgemental background is composed like this:

• So everyone born before Christ's ministry goes to hell. 
• Everyone who does not know that Christ ever existed goes to hell.
• The mentally incapabable go to hell, because they do not understand repentance.
• Babies or little children go to hell - as they do not know what sin is yet?

The Great Commandments

The first thing that comes to mind for me is, God is Just, and He created you.. He'd be millions and millions steps ahead of you in any direction. Meaning all the questions you have He already Judged - and God is Just. First and foremost; being evil is a condition of the heart. 

Therefore the Greatest Command of God is, read Matthew 22:34-40: Jesus Replied: "Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind". But then Jesus says:  And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself. All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.”

There is no Law against whom follow both or one of these commandments. So that takes care first two arguments. 

Also read Romans 2:12-16:

¹² All who sin apart from the law will also perish apart from the law, and all who sin under the law will be judged by the law. ¹³ For it is not those who hear the law who are righteous in God’s sight, but it is those who obey the law who will be declared righteous. ¹⁴ (Indeed, when Gentiles, who do not have the law, do by nature things required by the law, they are a law for themselves, even though they do not have the law. ¹⁵ They show that the requirements of the law are written on their hearts, their consciences also bearing witness, and their thoughts sometimes accusing them and at other times even defending them.) ¹⁶ This will take place on the day when God judges people’s secrets through Jesus Christ, as my gospel declares.

Faith is very important to God, because not believing God is sin. Because then you accuse Him of being a liar. While He is Pure and Just. In the Old Testament you see that for instance Abraham was declared righteous by God because Abraham believed Him. 

Do not mistake

For those who do not repent to Christ, they might interpret Romans 2:12-16 as a nice backdoor. "Love they neighbor like you love yourself" - may seem easy in your own selfrighteousness. Most seculars think they are good and worthy for Heaven because of their works. But they forget that this task and interpretation of what that Love is, is not seen through your eyes, but through God's Eyes and that how they are judged. The two kinds of love are guaranteed not the same because His Love is Spiritual and Pure and yours is polluted with worldly thinking. We know God the Father through the Son, and so you will see and understand His Righteousness and what He sees as Love. But if you gamble on your own selfrighteousnes...(I would not recommend it, I'd rather know God!). It is said by Jesus that not many go to Heaven even of those who said to believe in Him because not many will want to follow the Way, let alone a gentile trusting on his selfrighteousness and does not want to know God through Jesus.

The incapable

Well, even with our human minds, thinking about babies, children and the mentally incapable, the answer should be very simple... God is Righteous, how do you think He would judge!

A small note on the mentally incapable just to be clear. I refer to those people who have this condition by birth or accident, not by self-infliction like using drugs. Because the Lord sees that as sin. Also a drunk can be seen as a mentally incapable - but that is also self-inflicted. God is spiritual and if man willfully pollutes his mind, sin is at the door. 

My Conclusion

God's judgement is ultimate and fair. And He is the only one who makes the rules. For Gentiles, for Christians, for Jews, for those who died before Christ and those who died after Christ. And Christ is the Judge of all. Amen.