No, Romans 2:14-16 explains how God deals with those who never hear the gospel of Jesus Christ in this age.
You conveniently left out the initial part of that, which introduces that idea that you have presented. I reiterate; idea, as in:
your idea.
Romans 2
12 For all who have sinned without the law will also perish without the law, and all that have sinned under the law will be judged by the law.
13 For it is not the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but the
DOERS of the law who will be justified.
This is talking about the law, not about the Gospel. Jesus' story of salvation is
NOT the law.
The passages you are trying to pass off as an explanation as to what happens to those that do not know the gospel are actually referring to the "morality of God" written on their hearts. Not the gospel...... Paul goes on to say that we are all without excuse because we are all witnesses of creation and conscience. Not that the gospel is known by everyone.
Good try though.
They are deemed to be heretics and lunatics at this time in this age because the gospel has gone virtually throughout the world, and has for many, many years. There's little excuse for a person alive today to not formulate a saving knowledge of God based even a little on the knowledge of the gospel God has sent throughout the world in the form of the written Bible.
How can you so boldly claim that the
true Gospel has gone "virtually throughout the world" if most people that I talk to everyday can't communicate the same message from account to account? This means that the message obviously isn't and has never been clear enough to be universal objective knowledge. Why would God send you to "hell" or condemn you to "death" if it is evident that most people are not getting the same message.
I would like to clarify that MOST will agree that the Gospel is a little more than believing that Jesus Died and rose again and conquered sin. My point is that "even the devils believe and tremble." My other point to further reiterate that it is extremely unlikely that you just need to "believe" is the fact that there are many teaching about sin, the consequences, and how important it is to live "holy", or "in a manner pleasing to God". If it was just about believing, I doubt there would have been all of these extra instructions.
In regard to the details of Christianity, yes, that is true. But God has not left himself without witness in the world. And it is sufficient to cause a person who has never heard the name 'Jesus' to repent of his misdeeds and so pass safely through the coming judgment.
Again, see my initial answer.
You are jumping to conclusions too wildly and with pure speculation. You are saying that people have enough witness, even without the bible or a holy spirit filled teacher that what they should do is repent of their misdeeds? How the heck are they even going to know what to repent from if they don't know what they did was wrong?
i.e. A gay village inhabitant in some distant land, secluded and isolated from society. In his culture, homosexuality is no big deal and widely accepted and practiced.
Question, how will he KNOW that his action is sinful and that he must repent from it?
You are misunderstanding a lot of key points and you are jumping to conclusions that only make sense on the surface.
It seems this is no truer than at this present time in church history. But the Bible itself has prophesied that this will be the condition of the church at the end of the age just before Jesus returns to gather his own.
The church has always been in disagreement. Ironically this can be found even in canonized scripture......
