Counterpoint: all of the warnings against hell are made to Christians. The NT scriptures are silent about those outside the Church, the people you call "unreached".
Also - while Christ did absolutely provide a means for the forgiveness of sins (plural), the atonement wasn't just about individual wrongdoing, but about the residual taint of Sin (singular) in the world: the corruption that was like a disease. He took away the Sin (singular) of the world. The camp of Israel was a purified place from Sin, maintained by regular blood in the annual atonement, that enabled God to both dwell among the people and be approached by them. The Torah is like a sin-management system.
I think contra the individualistic approach given here, we have to understand the huge undercurrent of people-groups in the NT. The once-for-all atonement purified the world from Sin, which extended that access to God from the Israelites or those who had access to the Temple to all mankind. That's why the great commission doesn't say "teach each person" but "teach all nations".
This doesn't take away from the aspect of salvation which is individual, or the judgment which is individual, but it does give a parallel current that we must pay attention to -- especially when reading St Paul's works, which focus on this aspect in a unique way.
So when we say - "without the faith that God took on flesh and lived a perfect sinless life and was sacrificed as the perfect atonement for our transgressions against Him, there is no salvation" - I think we need to be super careful.
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We deserve hell. Hell is the just punishment for our sins against the perfect holy Creator...Justice is served completely appropriately for every human on earth, and if it were eternal hellfire for every person, there would be no injustice.
Eh, that's not what it says though. it says all have sinned, and all died. The wages of sin are death.
St Paul - when explicitly talking about both Jews and non-Jews - says "God 'will repay each person according to what they have done.' To those who by persistence in doing good seek glory, honor and immortality, he will give eternal life. But for those who are self-seeking and who reject the truth and follow evil, there will be wrath and anger. There will be trouble and distress for every human being who does evil: first for the Jew, then for the non-Jew; but glory, honor and peace for everyone who does good: first for the Jew, then for the non-Jew."
There's no conflict between the mercy and justice of God. His mercy is perfectly just, and His justice is perfectly merciful.
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It is very very hard to come to grips with the fact that many people will receive justice, because in their eyes, they were not afforded the opportunity to receive grace.
This is likewise confused. It isn't about our view about opportunity. It is understanding that everyone receives grace, sufficient for their salvation, which is
why God is both perfectly just and perfectly merciful.