Dr. John Bergsma

Okay, clear, if you don't confess,

and believe specifically in Jesus, you're going to hell, and a number of things.

So all of that, I am the way, the truth, and the life.

No one comes to the Father but by me.

There is no other name under heaven by which you must be saved than that of Jesus Christ.

Okay, that was from Acts, and that's from John 14, in reverse order there.

Okay, so all of these passages that like Jesus is the only way.

You have to have the sacraments.

You have to do this.

You have to do that.

No other option.

And then Paul in Romans 2 says, beginning in verse 12, all who have sinned without the law will also perish without the law.

And all who have sinned under the law will be judged by the law.

I'm going to jump down to verse 14.

"...when Gentiles who have not the law do by nature what the law requires, they are a law to themselves, even though they do not have the law.

They show that what the law requires is written on their hearts, while their conscience also bears witness, and their conflicting thoughts accuse or perhaps excuse them."

On that day when, according to my gospel, God judges the secrets of men by Christ Jesus, there St.

Paul makes it sound as though those who have not the law, these would be pagans who live and die apart from the Israelite tradition through which God's revelation has been passed down.

So these are, you know, tribes people in Europe in the context of St.

Paul's day, maybe, okay?