If Jesus is the savior for Christian, then who will save the people born before Jesus?

Question

A lot many were born I guess.

These people born prior to jesus are not Christians.

If god saves them. Then forget Jesus and believe in the non personal God Brahman. Done!

Answer 1

Let me see... , if I follow your thinking... then... before Newton, what kept things in place ??? No gravity, lol !!

Answer 2

Jesus saves those born before His Incarnation on earth. Think the Trinity... After Jesus died He descended into the Bosom of Abraham to open the gates of Heaven for those prevented from entering through the original sin of Adam and Eve.

Pretty straight forward Christianity. The Trinity existed before all things. God is the First Action of all actions within the history of the universe.

Answer 3

The Bible states that Jesus descended into hell and freed them. Maybe you should read it.

1 Peter 3:18-21
Because Christ also suffered for sins once, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring us to God; being put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit; in which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison, that aforetime were disobedient, when the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls, were saved through water: which also after a true likeness doth now save you, even baptism, not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the interrogation of a good conscience toward God, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ;

Answer 4

The people born before Jesus had the law. Jesus will certainly show grace and mercy to all people before He walked on the earth. Paul the Apostle talks about it it Romans 3...I forget the verse. Read Romans and it will explain God's plan.

For you, you were born after, and have been given the chance to hear the Good News that Jesus took the pain for your sins. By trusting in Him to do that for you, you are washed clean and now a child of God forever. It is really good news cause it is sooo easy to do. By grace God called you...By grace He gives you faith. Yahoo!

Answer 5

From what I understand in talking to Fundamentalists (I live in the midst of them) they think those who were born and died before Jesus are just out of luck. Also all those in the world who never hear about Jesus (which is why they're always proselytizing to other religions, I suppose). This is one reason I'm a Quaker -- we believe everyone is "saved" so get on with living a good life and helping each other like Jesus taught us rather than worrying about whether you're going to hell.

Answer 6

God is the savior to the people who were born before Jesus.

Answer 7

This question has been dealt with in literature, most notably in Dante's Divine Comedy. This is where things get hairy--there were many good people who did kind and wonderful things who couldn't accept Jesus as their savior because he hadn't been born yet. To say such people would end up in hell on what is really a technicality seems unfair. Since this stuff is all made up anyway, I'm sure someone's made up an exception to this rule to allow for this.

Answer 8

Take the passover Sader for example. The whole meal points to how Jesus fulfilled the prophecies of a coming savior. Salvation in the Old Testament is the same as in the new. Faith in the messiah is the only way to be saved. Even in Genesis, after the fall of man, Adam and the woman were told that salvation would come from her seed. It was their faith in this coming messiah that provided their salvation.

Answer 9

Jesus

Answer 10

In addition to the mentioned prophecy in Revelations, the following two Scripture passages refer to the ministry of Jesus while He was in the grave before His resurrection. Those three days (yet timeless to the Lord), Christ ministered to people who came before. This indicates that ones who died prior to His earthly time were given opportunity to know the Salvation plan.

"For Christ also suffered once for sins, the just for the unjust, that He might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive by the Spirit, by Whom also He went and preached to the spirits in prison, who formerly were disobedient, when once the Divine longsuffering waited in the days of Noah..." (1 Peter 3:18 - 20, NKJV)

"Now this, 'he ascended' -- what does it mean but that He also first descended into the lower parts of the earth? He who descended is also the One who ascended far above all the heavens, that He might fill all things." (Ephesians4:9-10)

Note the phrase "that He might fill all things." This emphasizes that Jesus had and has the dead and the living covered!

Answer 11

The people in the Old Testament were looking forward to the promised Messiah- Jesus. In Genesis Abraham is an example of faith- he put his trust in God and it was accounted to Him as righteousness. Abraham's faith is an example in the book of Hebrews 11 (in the NT) and is used an example of true saving faith.

Without getting too complicated in 1 thessalonians Paul describes what will happen at the rapture. The dead in Christ will arise first (meaning those who have died and have placed their faith in God). In the OT those like Abraham who put their faith in God are saved by Christ. Christ fulfilled all the covenants which were originally made in the OT (there are 3 main ones).

People in the OT were saved by putting their faith in the coming Messiah, much like believers who are saved today are looking forward to the 2nd coming of Christ.

i hope that helps... sorry if any of these terms are overly "theological" or hard to understand... You are asking a very deep theological question and i am struggling to find the right terms to describe it- but hope it helps...

be blessed,

nickster