Doesn't it seem unfair that God could allow people to go to hell just because they were born into another religion?

Someone I met online asked this question:

Would God say "You! evil being, you loved me and trusted me but you didn't believe the Christians! You didn't believe the stories about Jesus! How dare you!" and cast me down?  

In other words, is the Christian faith the only faith which would not incur God's wrath? Three Godly men, of the same God, who trust and have faith in that God, a Jew, a Christian and a Muslim, come to heaven and God only accepts the Christian? I am genuinely interested.  Only the Christian in only one tradition of Christianity gets through? All the same God... why? 

And please, I would prefer answers which don't rely on Christian doctrine (ie, the bible and Jesus "no-one comes to the Father but by me"). Just spiritually speaking, how does such a God inspire genuine trust? Or could it be, humans have taken the stories and experiences of some just way too far?

Here's my response: It certainly does seem unfair for people to end up in hell just because they were born into the wrong religion. However God promises that if you seek Him with all your heart you will find him (Jeremiah 29:13). In the New Testament Jesus says "seek and you shall find, knock and it shall be open to you" (Matthew 7:7). Many people misunderstand this promise because it's actually a Hebrew idiom to have an obsession for something, and not just something as complacent as knocking on a door. God promises that if you have an obsession to find him, you will find him. And there are many stories in history where folks in other religions sought God with all their heart and Jesus actually appeared to them visibly. Here's one of the many stories:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sadhu_Sundar_Singh

A more recent phenomenon is where thousands of Muslims have reported seeing visions of Jesus and thereby believe in him as the son of God, despite being ostracized by their families and having their lives put to risk:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNcPVNboooQ

There have also been native american tribes that had a revelation of God being triune and characteristics similar to Jehovah.

There's also significant evidence that the ancient Chinese worshiped Jehovah:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-ZWrBosDXA

Regarding why Christianity has the boldness to claim exclusivity as the one true religion, when it comes to apologetics, Ravi Zacharias is one of my favorite people for answering questions like this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWY-6xBA0Pk

Islam cannot be a true religion because the Koran unequivocally insists that Jesus never died, but he ascended straight to heaven. Yet there are many eye witnesses and historians who have recorded his death on the cross, including non-Christian and Jewish sources.

http://answering-islam.org/Silas/crucified.htm

Regarding Judaism, there are 351 prophecies that Jesus fulfilled in the Old Testament. The chances of him doing so are astronomical. Some of these prophecies are so specific that it would have to have involved a one thousand plus year generational conspiracy to make it happen if it were not of God.

http://www.accordingtothescriptures....rophecies.html

Just reading passages like Isaiah 53 in the Old Testament is like reading a New Testament passage which describes Jesus.

Perhaps the most precise prophecy is Jesus' fulfillment of Daniel's 69th of 70 weeks to the exact day:

http://www.khouse.org/articles/2004/552/

In Daniel's 70 weeks which are 70 sets of 7 years, or 490 years which the angel Gabriel gave to Daniel, which is to start after the construction of the second temple, the Messiah is "cut off" during the 69th week and looks like he does nothing; after this event occurs the second temple is destroyed (Daniel 9:26).

Titus and the Roman army already destroyed the second temple in 70AD. According to this prophecy it's too late for "another" messiah to come. Jesus is the Messiah of the Jews, they are just blind to it because they rely on the Talmud to interpret their scriptures.

Even their own top Orthodox Rabbis have admitted Jesus is the Messiah after he appeared to them, a extremely taboo thing to do in Judaism because Yeshua is so hated.

http://www.israeltoday.co.il/NewsIte...7/Default.aspx

Unlike other religious texts, the whole bible itself is filled with prophecies. Actually 1/3 of the bible is prophetic. Around 2000 of these 2500 some prophecies have been fulfilled. The rest are in the process of being fulfilled. 

http://www.reasons.org/articles/articles/fulfilled-prophecy-evidence-for-the-reliability-of-the-bible

Many of these miraculous prophecies relate to Israel. You can read some here:

http://www.therefinersfire.org/jews_..._to_israel.htm

God put these prophecies in the bible so his people could believe in him. Some unbelieving bible scholars in the past have insisted that the prophecies were inserted into the Tanakh after the prophecies were fulfilled because they were so precise. However the discovery of the dead sea scrolls have quenched this speculation.

Our faith in the God of the bible is not blind, but it is built on a foundation of assurance. This is why Paul adds "assurance of the things hoped for" to the definition of faith which provides us the reason for trusting in an invisible God we can't see in Hebrews 11:1.