What about people who never heard about Jesus?

The answer to this question is deeply entrenched in the father-heart of God

 God.

“⁴Who wishes all men to be saved and [increasingly] to perceive and recognise and discern and know precisely and correctly the [divine] Truth. ⁵For there [is only] one God, and [only] one Mediator between God and men, the Man Christ Jesus, ⁶Who gave Himself as a ransom for all [people, a fact that was] attested to at the right and proper time.”

1 Timothy 2:4-6

The father-heart of God is that everybody must be saved. He loves us the same, and Jesus died for everybody, once and for all. 

“For ever since the creation of the world His invisible nature and attributes, that is, His eternal power and divinity, have been made intelligible and clearly discernible in and through the things that have been made (His handiworks). So [men] are without excuse [altogether without any defence or justification]…”

Romans 1:20

“¹⁴When Gentiles who have not the [divine] Law do instinctively what the Law requires, they are a law to themselves, since they do not have the Law. ¹⁵They show that the essential requirements of the Law are written in their hearts and are operating there, with which their consciences (sense of right and wrong) also bear witness; and their [moral] decisions (their arguments of reason, their condemning or approving thoughts) will accuse or perhaps defend and excuse [them].”

Romans 2:14-15

From this we can see that each person will have a fair chance to experience God. We only need to look at nature around us to see His works. God is fair and will see that each person will receive a fair chance at salvation. Each person knows what is right and wrong and is accused or acquitted by his conscience. 

It does remain each person’s choice what he will do with his conscience – what is right and wrong according to his faith and how he maintains it. God will judge a person fairly. 

In Acts 10 we read about Cornelius, the Roman officer. He honoured God, and one could see this in his actions and how he lived. Because of that, the Holy Spirit led Peter to bring the message of Jesus to Cornelius and his whole family. Everybody was saved that day and was baptised. That is how God is. That is His heart for every person

Conclusion

From this we can deduce that even those who had never heard the message of salvation in the way we had, will still be judged fairly by God. 

Then while it is [still] called Today, if you would hear His voice and when you hear it, do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion [in the desert, when the people provoked and irritated and embittered God against them].

Hebrews 3:15 

In Hebrews 3:7 and 8 we see almost the identical words – a repeat within a few verses. We need to take note! 

All scripture references are from the Amplified Bible Classic Edition unless otherwise stated.