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Answer: God has not left non-Jews without means of receiving
forgiveness of sins. Minimally, non-Jews are to live
by moral and civil rules and establish the proper institutions
necessary to uphold the basic structure of society.
For example, a tone of righteousness and mercy is to
be set in relationships of human to human and human
to animal life in the command to abstain from eating
flesh from a living animal (Genesis 9:4) and in having
responsibility to maintain the sanctity of life, whether
one's own or another person's (Genesis 9:5-6). On a
deeper spiritual level, non-Jews may also establish
a personal relationship with God (2 Kings 5:15-18) and
find remission of sin through sincere repentance (Jonah
3:5-10, Daniel 4:27).
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