God offered a choice of life or death.
See, I have set before thee this day life and good, and death and evil; (Deuteronomy 30:15 KJV)
This offer is open to all.
For "everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved." (Romans 10:13 ESV)
But the opportunity to response is limited by the opportunity to hear.
How then will they call on him in whom they have not believed? And how are they to believe in him of whom they have never heard? And how are they to hear without someone preaching? (Romans 10:14 ESV)
It is by the grace of God that the opportunity to hear the Good News is given.
For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast. (Ephesians 2:8-9 ESV)
Those who never heard the Good News will receive God's justice.
When the Gentiles sin, they will be destroyed, even though they never had God's written law. And the Jews, who do have God's law, will be judged by that law when they fail to obey it. (Romans 2:12 NLT)
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