As a child I was given this question: If you have to accept Jesus to be saved, what about the native in deepest, darkest Africa who is barely aware that there's an outside world much less Jesus. An otherwise good guy, does he go to hell? Is that the act of a mercirciful, loving and just god?
This sidesteps the most important question tho; why does God save ANYONE if He is just? We all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God.
God is a Spirit, infinite, eternal, and unchangeable, in his being, wisdom, power, holiness, justice, goodness, and truth.
Man is by his nature fallen and sinful.
The fact that God would come in human form and sacrifice Himself for ANYONE is amazing.
As He said to Moses, He will have mercy upon whom He will have mercy.
