I like your comments, especially the last paragraph.

In the last 400 or so years we’ve had the benefit of printed bibles in increasing numbers of languages and even more recently the immediacy of finding bible passages we’re looking for with Google searches, or having Bibles on our computers, phones, whatever.

I think it’s easy for Christians to forget that it’s quite a recent thing that we would even be able to find a bible all in the same place and that we would generally have the ability to read it. For many hundreds of years your best experience of the Bible was (if you were one of the literate in Latin) whatever gospel or epistle you could get to read at a library near you (probably in a monastery somewhere). Or if you were illiterate, what your priest or other religious leader told you it meant.

For most of the Christian era there were no study guides or concordances or evangelistic tracts available to the masses. The Christian people were the Word themselves, and somehow able to convey the message. 

This says to me that there must be quite a lot of tolerance on the part of God and that his drawing people to himself must be at least as important as actually having a Bible to hand, and that “saved” has probably meant different things to different people over the last 2000 years.