Ancient people who lived and died before Jesus?

Question

What is your doctrine concerning the salvation of the ancient Israelites and other ancient civilizations predating Christianity? How will they be saved given that in their mortal lifetime they never could have relied on the saving grace of Christ's Atonement. Will those ancients be saved by the Law of Moses if they kept it? Even if they were faithful and kept the Law, could they keep it perfectly enough? And what about those other ancient civilizations in Africa and Asia and the Americas who never even had contact with ancient Israel, and who predated the earliest Christian missionaries by thousands of years? Do you believe God has made any provisions for their salvation?

Answer 1

When Jesus died He went to Hell for three days, in that time He overcame death and the grave and set a host of captives free. I believe that the dead had the gospel preached to them and those who accepted were brought with Him to paradise. God is just and fair, you don't have to wonder if He was fair, just how that fairness came about.

Answer 2

Yes, provisions have been made.

GAL. 2:16. Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified.

Read Romans chapt. 4 and Gal chapt. 3 it explains how the keeping of the law did not save Abraham any more than keeping the law will save us. Our salvation is all based on faith. through the ages there is nothing else required. No amount of "works" can save us.

The following verses tellus about the ones that have never had "missionaries" to tell then about God......
Rom 2:
11. For there is no respect of persons with God.
12. For as many as have sinned without law shall also perish without law: and as many as have sinned in the law shall be judged by the law;
13. (For not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified.
14. For when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these, having not the law, ARE A LAW UNTO THEMSELVES:
15. Which shew the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts the mean while accusing or else excusing one another;)
16. In the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ according to my gospel.

Answer 3

The Bible teaches that those who did not have the law will be judged apart from the law. Even without the 10 commandments and the other laws, people are smart enough to know that they "sin", meaning do think they shouldn't. If they turn to God, seeking his forgiveness and his cleansing of those things, they will receive it. Even Christians do not go to heaven because they are perfect. They go because they are forgiven and cleansed. If they never heard the name of Jesus, then they can not believe in him. But they can believe in God. (Since Jesus is God, then belief in Jesus is Belief in God, and belief in God is belief in God, Same end results).

The ancient Jews fall under the same idea. They did not know the name of Jesus, but they knew the law and they needed forgiveness. For them, they had the sacrifices and rituals to prepare them to recognize Jesus when he came. But they are forgiven by faith, just like Christians. They came to God for forgiveness and cleansing. They just added a ritual or sacrifice when they came.

The Bible tells us that in between his death and his ressurrection that Jesus went and preached to those who were in paradise (which is not heaven, but the place where all the dead went before Jesus' ressurrection). All those who had sought him and his forgiveness during their lifetime were able to receive him at that point and were taken with him into heaven. So his salvation was proclaimed to all people in the whole world who lived before his ressurrection, and they were all given the opportunity to be saved. All those who had sought in faith God during their lifetimes accepted.

Answer 4

Romans chapter 1 says basically that those who never had the chance to hear about God know instinctively right from wrong because God created them. They will be judged on how well they did with what they knew.

Answer 5

i'm uncertain. yet i found this : the respond is easy once you realize the Jewish thought of the universe. They believed in 3 heavens. the 1st became the ambience the place the timber, clouds, and birds are. the 2d is the area of the celebrities, planets, solar, and moon. And the 0.33 heaven became the very living place of God. interior the previous testomony in Genesis 5 and a pair of Kings 2 above, they weren't taken into the very living place of God, yet into the heavens; it is, they have been taken up into the sky. precisely the place is in debate. it fairly is not until after the crucifixion and resurrection of Christ have been people who had died in the previous, in faith, taken into the optimal heaven. Ephesians 4:8 is as a rule noted as a helping scripture for this perception. It says, "whilst He ascended on severe, He led captive a variety of of captives, and He gave presents to adult males." in addition to, whilst Paul mentioned he became caught as much as the 0.33 heaven (2 Cor. 12:2), he became bearing on the very living place of God

Answer 6

I will make this answer relatively brief; The Lord mentioned from Genesis-Malachi was the Lord; the :Lord Jesus Christ. So if those people completely obeyed him; they are saved.

Answer 7

He will judge their hearts. They have no cares of this world. there will be a time of learning.

Answer 8

yes because they never knew christ they r safe from hell.

Answer 9

Maybe you should ask God.