the bible does not teach that non-christians will necessarily be condemned

Again, I have to emphasize the fact that all of my quotes are full and from the text. You don't cite any of the text except for the parts I agree with. I don't know why you keep pushing rejection and putting reject in quotes. The word reject isn't in any of the passages you provided...at all. Not once does the word come up. So, clearly it is you who are slanting the text. I draw on the word-for-word interpretation, making my examples infinately more reflective. "Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved; whoever does not believe will be condemned." We agree that the man is neither baptized nor a believer. So, he is then automatically not saved. It specifically states "whoever does not believe will be condemned." The island man does not believe, on this we agree. So, how is he not damned? He fits every aspect of the damned in this passage. "Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light." "But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light" Again, the islander does neither of these. He does not run from the light and does not embrace it either. I thought we covered this two rounds ago. The islander is abstinent from the gospel. The question of the debate is whether or not abstinence is damnable. All of the other parts of every other passage indicate simply and clearly that "whoever does not believe stands condemned already because he has not believed in the name of God's one and only Son". So, has the islander believed in the name of God's son? NO. So, he is condemned. It is literally right in the text word for word. On John 8, my point was that the islander is ignorant. While he may not fit the description in John 8, he matches every other description. All of the passages simply say those who don't believe are damned. In order for you to be correct, there would have to be some mention anywhere of having to know the gospels before being damned. There is no precondition for that knowledge in order to be damned. All that is required is a simple lack of belief, which our islander has. I guess quoting directly from the text is forcing a doctrine now... I am not an avid christian to say the least, but your argument is flawed from a lingual perspective. When the text condemns those who do not believe, the islander is among those. We agree that he does not believe, regardless of his lack of opportunity. Nothing in the text nor in common sense says that I have to reject the gospel to be a non-believer. There are those who reject it and they are damned, but rejection is not a prerequisite. To be damned is to fail to do something (believe). Inaction or abstinence is that failure. In order to be saved you have to believe (straight from the text). The islander does not believe and is therefore damned. While he doesn't commit negative action, his simple static behavior causes him to lack belief. He doesn't need to be evil, just neutral. Common sense says that someone who doesn't believe is a non-believer. I thought that went without saying. Multiple examples from the text specifically say "whoever does not believe is condemned." No where does it indicate rejection. The islander, in all of his ignorance, is a non-believer by definition, rendering him damned.