Salvation of the Gentiles?

[goldenchild17]

Isn't there stuff in Scripture that talks about "the law written on the hearts" of the gentiles by which they could come to know the truth and be saved, even if they couldn't know Christ? Or am I imagining things ?

[Cure of Ars]

Rom 2:14 is the passage that your talking about but I do not know if it means that they can be saved by the ability to know right from wrong. But they sure can be judged.

[phatcatholic]

[quote name='goldenchild17' date='Jul 17 2005, 08:33 PM']Isn't there stuff in Scripture that talks about "the law written on the hearts" of the gentiles by which they could come to know the truth and be saved, even if they couldn't know Christ?  Or am I imagining things ?
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no, ur right, its pretty clear:

[b]Rom 2:9-16[/b]
[b]9 [/b]There will be tribulation and distress for every human being who does evil, the Jew first and also the Greek,
[b]10 [/b]but glory and honor and peace for every one who does good, the Jew first and also the Greek.
[b]11 [/b]For God shows no partiality.
[b]12 [/b]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.
[b]13 [/b]For it is not the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but the doers of the law who will be justified.
[b]14 [/b]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.
[b]15 [/b]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
[b]16 [/b]on that day when, according to my gospel, God judges the secrets of men by Christ Jesus.

[EcceNovaFacioOmni]

Check out the Bible section in my treatment of Feeneyism:
[url="http://www.catholicfiles.com/againstfeeneyism.html"]http://www.catholicfiles.com/againstfeeneyism.html[/url]

I think I've pulled out all the verses where Scripture talks about the law written on the hearts of the Gentiles.