And yet, though the Bible is full of foreigners and pagans and members of other religions who came to God, it was always on God's terms and not their own (or the terms of the cultures and religions they came from). They still had to come through the "narrow gate", as it were. It's not as though God made two ways of salvation, one for people who grew up hearing about Christ and one for people who didn't. So I don't think that the hypothetical person in the deepest darkest jungle who can't read, has never heard of the Bible and knows nothing about Christ is going to be saved by virtue of his ignorance; rather I think that if he really wants to know God then God will lead him out of that ignorance in some fashion, even in ways that might seem to us exceedingly unlikely or indeed miraculous. (If that makes any sense.)

You might find the Mormon belief interesting on this one. We believe that everyone gets at least one chance to hear the gospel and accept Christ. For those who never get that opportunity in this life (like those in the deepest darkest jungle), that opportunity will be given to them in the next life. They still have to accept, and repent, and do things the way Christ would do them, but they *can*. No one is doomed to hell through the mere misfortune of their birth.

Of course, we can't know who has truly had the opportunity to accept the gospel here or not; it is not in our power to judge. So we'll keep trying, because *this* life is the time to prepare to meet God, not the next. But I think it's a very comforting thought that those who die without ever knowing Christ are not eternally lost, unless they choose to be.