Before Christ: There were ~50 billion people who were born and died before Christ. And of the roughly 200 million people alive at the time of Christ, half lived in either East Asia (Han China) or the Indian subcontinent, and another 20 M in Africa, having no exposure to Jesus. Then we have those children who die before reaching an age that allows them to commit to our Lord (~35 billion according to a calculation from ChatGPT). Then we have the uncontacted tribes of approximately 200,000 (Amazon, for example), and isolated communities in deep forests, high mountains or islands, totaling about 2.5 million. So by most measures, there are, or have been, ~90 billion people who could not have committed to Christ.
My Question: What do various faiths tell us about how to think about those people being candidates for God’s salvation?