Reddit reviews Peace Child: An Unforgettable Story of Primitive Jungle Treachery in the 20th Century

The most famous example of this that I know is Bruchko by Bruce Olson. He strikes off into the jungle as a teenager, totally on his own, and almost dies several times while attempting to make contact with an isolated tribe. Eventually he discovers that all along, the tribe had a prophecy about how someone like him would come to bring them a message of truth (or something along those lines).

There's also the really influential missionary book Peace Child, which introduces the "'redemptive analogy' thesis: the idea that each culture has some story, ritual, or tradition that can be used to illustrate and apply the Christian gospel message." Not quite the same, though, since I don't think he believes these indigenous narratives can be salvific on their own.

The only book I read as a Christian that tells exactly the story you're describing was a kid's fiction book: The Secret of the Desert Stone.

Missionaries commonly find that God has prepared the way for them by planting hints of himself in the beliefs of many cultures, from Paul in Athens (who quoted "in whom we live, and move, and have our being" from a poem about Zeus) to the Algonquin Great Manitou to Peace Child.

Tribes around the world that are essentially in the "Stone Age". Aka, the most advanced tools they have are made with stone. They hunt with bows and arrows or blowdarts or the like. Generally they live in the jungle, as the jungle keeps them isolated from the outside world.

If you're interested in stuff like that, for starters read Peace Child. It's the true story of a missionary who went to live with a stone age tribe of headhunters/cannibals in the 60s. Very well written, gripping, and fascinating. The whole "Someone will come to explain this to you" scenario doesn't happen per se, but there's tons of other great stuff in there.

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Christianity is supposed to be based off 2 main rules, Love the Lord with all your heart, soul, mind and strength (because he created you and loves you and wants to have a relationship with you), and love your neighbor as yourself (Because they are a creation of God and He loves them too). Anything done to Break these rules is sin, which puts a separation between man and God, because God must be perfect and man is imperfect. The only way to fix this is too repent because God wants to forgive our sin so he can be in relationship with us. But an imperfect person cannot repent perfectly be cause he has been corrupted. However a perfect person can repent perfectly, but has no need to do so. So God took the form of a man, lived a perfect sinless life, was killed (paying the price for sin), and rose from the dead (defeating death). Now because a perfect man payed the price of our sin, we can simply accept his sacrifice and be back in the right standing with God and we can have the relationship for which he created us.

And you have obviously never heard the story of the peace child. There was a tribe in the South Asian Islands who were visited by missionaries. They were told the story of the gospel. When they got to the part about Judas talking to the pharisees and accepting silver they listened closer. When they told about the betrayal in the garden, they cheered for judas. When they heard about Judas throwing the silver at the feet of the pharisees, they were confused. And when Judas hung himself they screamed out in protest. You see their culture revered betrayal. Long ago their king had two sons. one betrayed the other and took everything the king had left him, then he had two sons and one betrayed another yet again. and this continued until they believed betrayal to be the only way to succeed. So you would have people sleeping with a knife to ward off those who would kill them in the night for their property. So the missionaries taught them the story of Jesus himself in the context of biblical history. When they heard it they said that it reminded them of their peace child, the son of the chief who was traded for the son of the chief of a related tribe to ensure that they tribes would not attack each other. If one tribe did attack the other they would kill the peace child. The missionaries taught a better way to live, with christian morality. They taught them to trust and not betray each other. Don't you believe that this is better than how the tribe was going about things before? Oh and this is a real story. You can read about it in the book Peace Child.