The term Fate of the Unlearned describes an eschatological question about the ultimate destiny of people who have not been exposed to a particular theology or doctrine and thus have no opportunity to embrace it. It is sometimes combined with the similar question of the Fate of the Unbeliever. Differing faith traditions have different responses to the question. Albrecht Dürer - Four horsemen of the Apocalypse This article is about the concept of the end of the world. ...

Jewish tradition

Within Judaism is the tradition of the Noahide Covenant, which proposes that non-Jews can have a direct and meaningful relationship with God or at least comply with the minimal requisites of civilization and of divine law. To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... The Seven Noahide Laws (Hebrew: שבע מצוות בני נח, Sheva mitzvot bnei Noach), also called the Brit Noah (Covenant of Noah) mitzvot (commandments) and halakhot (laws) that are morally binding on non-Jews according to Judaism. ...

Catholic tradition

The Catholic Church believes that Christ attained salvation "for all men" by his death on the cross.^[1] It teaches that salvation comes from "God alone," but that the Church is the "mother" and "teacher" of the faithful.^[2] Specifically, it teaches that Christian baptism is generally necessary for salvation.^[3] However, Catholic teaching also allows for the salvation of one with genuine ignorance of Christian teaching, who "seeks the truth and does the will of God in accordance with his understanding of it."^[4] Unbaptized catechumens are saved, in the Catholic view, because the desire to receive the sacrament of baptism, together with sincere repentance for one's sins, assures salvation.^[5] In the case of the righteous unlearned, "It may be supposed that such persons would have desired Baptism explicitly if they had known its necessity" and, by extension, they will attain salvation.^[6] The name Catholic Church can mean a visible organization that refers to itself as Catholic, or the invisible Christian Church, viz. ... Baptism in early Christian art. ... In ecclesiology, a catechumen (from Latin catechumenus, Greek κατηχουμενος , instructed) is one receiving instruction in the principles of the Christian religion with a view to baptism. ...

Protestant tradition

The reformer John Calvin, writing his Institutes of the Christian Religion at the time of the Reformation, wrote "beyond the pale of the Church no forgiveness of sins, no salvation, can be hoped for" [IV.i.iv]. Calvin wrote also that "those to whom he is a Father, the Church must also be a mother," echoing the words of the originator of the Latin phrase himself, Cyprian: "He can no longer have God for his Father who has not the Church for his mother." John Calvin (July 10, 1509 – May 27, 1564) was a French Protestant theologian during the Protestant Reformation and was a central developer of the system of Christian theology called Calvinism. ... Institutes of the Christian Religion is John Calvins seminal work on Protestant theology. ... The Protestant Reformation was a movement which began in the 16th century as a series of attempts to reform the Roman Catholic Church, but ended in division and the establishment of new institutions, most importantly Lutheranism, Reformed churches, and Anabaptists. ... Saint Cyprian (Thascius Caecilius Cyprianus) (died September 14, 258) was bishop of Carthage and an important early Christian writer. ...

The idea is further affirmed in the Puritan Anglican Westminster Confession of Faith o 1647 that "the visible Church . . . is the Kingdom of the Lord Jesus Christ, the house and family of God, out of which there is no ordinary possibility of salvation." Despite this, it is not necessarily a commonly held belief within modern Protestantism, especially Evangelicalism and those denominations which believe in the autonomy of the local church. The dogma is related to the universal Protestant dogma that the church is the body of all believers and debates within Protestantism usually centre on the meaning of "church" (ecclesiam) and "apart" (extra). This article describes a highly specialized aspect of its subject. ... The term Anglican describes those people and churches following the religious traditions of the Church of England, especially following the Reformation. ... The Westminster Confession of Faith is a Reformed confession of faith, in the Calvinist theological tradition. ... // Events March 14 - Thirty Years War: Bavaria, Cologne, France and Sweden sign the Truce of Ulm. ... The word evangelicalism usually refers to religious practices and traditions which are found in conservative, almost always Protestant, Christianity. ...

Latter-day Saint tradition

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints teaches that those who die without knowledge of LDS theology will be taught the gospel in the afterlife, and that they will be able, if they are willing, to accept baptism through an ordinance carried out vicariously by the living. This baptism for the dead is obliquely referenced in Paul's letter to the Corinthians. This is the current Mormon collaboration of the month! Please help improve it to meet the Featured Article standard. ... Baptism in early Christian art. ... Baptism for the dead is an ordinance performed today in temples of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints for those who have died without having been baptized by one having authority. ...

"Else what shall they do which are baptized for the dead, if the dead rise not at all? why are they then baptized for the dead?"  — 1 Corinthians 15:29 (Redirected from 1 Corinthians) See also: Second Epistle to the Corinthians and Third Epistle to the Corinthians The First Epistle to the Corinthians is a book of the Bible in the New Testament. ...

Islamic trandition

See also: Itmam al-hujjah and Hanif

According to Qur'an, the basic criteria for salvation in afterlife is the belief in one God, Last Judgment, and good deeds.^[7] As the Qur'an states: Itmām al-hujjah (Arabic completion of proof, from completion, realization and pretext, proof) is an Islamic term, which is used when the unveiling of truth by a Messenger of God to his addressees occurs to the extent that the addressees have no excuse but stubbornness and enmity to deny... Ħanīf (Arabic حنيف, plural ħunafā حنفاء) is an Arabic term that is a designation believed to refer to people who were neither Jews or christians and rejected polytheism and pantheism. ... For other uses, see Salvation (disambiguation). ... The afterlife (or life after death) is a generic term referring to a continuation of existence, typically spiritual, experiential, or ghost-like, beyond this world, or after death. ... In theology, monotheism (in Greek μόνος = single and θεός = God) is the belief in the existence of one deity or God, or in the oneness of God. ... Last Judgement. ...

Qur'an also asserts that those who reject the Messengers of God with their best knowledge are damned in afterlife^[7] and if they reject in front of the Messenger of God, then they also face dreadful fate in this world and in afterlife (see Itmam al-hujjah). Conversely, if a person discovers monotheism without having been reached by a messenger is called Hanif. Prophets of Islam are human beings who are regarded by Muslims to be prophets. ... Itmām al-hujjah (Arabic completion of proof, from completion, realization and pretext, proof) is an Islamic term, which is used when the unveiling of truth by a Messenger of God to his addressees occurs to the extent that the addressees have no excuse but stubbornness and enmity to deny... Ħanīf (Arabic حنيف, plural ħunafā حنفاء) is an Arabic term that is a designation believed to refer to people who were neither Jews or christians and rejected polytheism and pantheism. ...

References

1. ^ Catechism of the Catholic Church, 2nd ed., para. 1741
2. ^ Ibid, para. 169.
3. ^ Ibid, para. 1257 et seq.
4. ^ Ibid, para. 1260.
5. ^ Ibid, para. 1259
6. ^ Ibid, para. 1260.
7. ^ ^{a b} Moiz Amjad. Will Christians enter Paradise or go to Hell?. Renaissance - Monthly Islamic journal 11(6), June, 2001.

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See also

• Limbo
• Harrowing of Hell