Folks Who Have Never Heard about Jesus

Yesterday, Bob mentioned, groups of people in Africa who had never heard the gospel and how God knew their hearts etc. I don't know if he was being hypothetical for an illustration or not but there are such people at least in South America such as the Nukak tribe, 1,200 isolated Indians who inhabited the forests close to Rio Pure National Park.

 

In 1981, a U.S. evangelical group, traveled into their territory without permission of the Nukak and, with gifts of machetes and axes, enticed some of the families to their camp. This contact convinced other Nukaks to seek similar gifts from the settlers at the edge of their territory. This set in motion a downward spiral leading to the deaths of hundreds of Nukaks from respiratory infections, violent clashes with land grabbers and drug traffickers and dispersal of the survivors.

 

Hundreds were forcibly displaced to the town of San Jose Del Guevara where they are living and dying in terrible conditions. They are fed, receive money from the government, and similar to our Native Americans live in squalor. Assimilation has brought poverty, alcoholism, unemployment or utter dependence on outsiders.

 

This all was done with the intent to save their souls.

 

During their search for people living in the rain forest, groups make daily aerial reconnaissance. One day a team reported that thick drifting clouds made it impossible to get a prolonged view of the rain forest floor. Several structures within an area of about five-square miles were sighted but the dwellings never stayed visible long enough to photograph them. They would see a structure and a cloud would close in quickly. The cloud cover and a storm that sprang up out of nowhere and pushed their airplane around left the team with one conclusion: the tribe had called upon its shamans to send the intruders a message and was making them pay for what they were doing.

 

As Bob mentioned in the bible class yesterday in his story of the flat tire was that Satan or the Holy Spirit?

John Jenkins
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