In my personal devotions I’m going through the book of Romans. Romans Chapter 4 raises an interesting question for me . . .
Can someone who lives nowadays and has never read The Bible be a christian?
I think the answer is yes and in two ways.
1st) The rather obvious answer is that someone can hear the about God and Jesus and believe. They don’t actually have to read about Him to be a Christian. This is what many Roman Catholics do or just new Christians (even in the New Testament.)
However, I think that when someone asks a question like this they don’t want an answer like #1 what they’re wondering is (for example)
2) Can someone on a deserted island be a Christian?
I would say yes again although I would be careful about this.
Creation points to God, (“The heavenly hosts declare the glory of God [Psalms] . . . ) and someone who only has something like that to look at can believe.
Also, just as Abraham “believed and it was accounted to him as Faith” so someone can come to believe in a living God and trust in him and therefore any promises that he would make to humans (including Jesus) however, the chances of someone actually doing this are very slim.
Personally, I think that God will never turn away someone who honestly wants to be a Christian.
And there’s my two cents worth on the matter! Feel free to disagree and leave a polite but argumentative comment. 
am I free to agree?
’cause I do.
I agree.
oh yes, and in reply back to one of the IM’s you sent me a while back, no, I wasn’t angry at all when you sent out an advertisment for Faith Magazine. 
I agree. I think that if you had just become a Christian though, you would be so excited that you would do anything to get your hands on a Bible!
I agree, however, (I’m not too fimilar with Roman Catholics right now) they don’t realize the importance of readin the Bible themselves . . . the church use to teach them that only “higher” people could understand what it said. They only had their masses in Latin and they never even understood what was being said.