Why Gentiles Go to Hell: The Gospel is the power of God for salvation, but what does it mean to be saved? In Romans 1:18, Paul begins the basis for the need for the salvation God provides in the Gospel. The passage begins with a focus on gentile guilt. So, today, using Romans 1:18-23, Dr. Randy White asks why gentiles go to hell. God has revealed His righteousness as well as His wrath, and thus the gentiles are responsible to the revelation they have been given.