Before Jesus EVERYONE went to Hell?

Question

That just really doesnt sound fair to me..... I'm a beleive in Christ, but I don't get it... I know that God doesnt send a newborn baby to hell, because theyve never sinned, well what about the people who didnt know any better, they didnt know anything about Christianity?????????

Answer 1

Actually they went to dust and were eaten by worms. After the resurrection of Jesus, everyone else would be able too.

Answer 2

forgive me for my confusion. some say Jesus is the son of God. Others say that Jesus is God. Since little, i've always wonder how Jesus can be the son of God and the God at the same time. If Jesus is God, then God was baby who was born with blood all over him, need to be feed, and have to learn. And later, the great God was murdered by some weak human? God should be better than that. And now some people say that he have child. So, that baby would be like the grandchild of God and also the child of God? So much confusion. Who have the final say then? God-father, Jesus-God or baby-Jesus God? lets have some critical thinking about that. i'm going to convert to religion with only one God. life should be simple. simple is good, but not any simpler.

Answer 3

Perhaps it will help you feel better to know that the Bible hell is simply the common grave of mankind. It is the place people go when they die. Acts 2:30-32 plainly reports that Jesus himself went to hell (Hades) when he died.

Since the Bible reports that there is no consciousness in death (Ecclesiastes 9:5), there can be no suffering in death. Death is not the opposite of life. Death is the absence of life.

All sinners go to the Bible hell at death. And since the Bible teaches that all persons sin (even babies), babies go to the Bible hell as well.

But since there is no suffering or torment in hell, since it is the common grave of mankind, they are simply sleeping and awaiting a resurrection. Think of Jesus' friend Lazarus. Where was Lazarus before Jesus resurrected him? Why, he was nowhere. He did not exist. But Jesus restored him to life. Don't you think if he went to heaven, he would have spoken about it? Or if he went to a place of torment, he would have mentioned that as well?

Rest assured, please, hell (the Greek Hades) is not a place of torment or agonizing torture. Indeed, there is no consciousness whatsoever because it is simply the common grave.

Incidentally, the place that Jesus went to when he "preached to the spirits" is not the same as hell. These are two totally different Greek words. Jesus preached to them in Tartarus - a prison-like, abased condition into which the disobedient angels were cast in Noah's day. This was clearly a message of condemnation - these disobedient angels will be destroyed. What would be the point in preaching to people who were supposedly in an agony of torment and torture in hell? If, as some teach, hell is a place of torment to punish the unrepentant people, why go preach to them?

Hannah J Paul

Answer 4

God made 'Time" for man. There is no linear time as we know it in heaven. That's why:
1. God can be at all places at once.
2. He is, always has been, and always will be.
They are all time related. That means that everyone who died before, now and in the future, will be in heaven or hell all at once without waiting. Because God invented Time only for Flesh & Blood man. So when Jesus died, he did it for all soals in all times, because our soals are timeless.
Don't think about it too much, you'll get a headache like I have right now.

Answer 5

The right monotheistic faith before Jesus Christ was born was Judaism. It was revealed to the prophet Moses in the book of Torah. After so many years, People did not follow Moses's doctrine properly and changed it, so God send Jesus Christ to them because they needed him to correct their faiths at that time.

Answer 6

that is not true.
where did you get that hogwash?
there were many men (and women) of God in the Old Testament whose souls awaited the coming of Jesus Christ, so He could take them to Heaven.
In fact, God, on at least one occasion, took a human directly to Heaven before he died.
If you believe in Jesus Christ, then you ought to believe that God is a fair and just God.....
for Jesus is God Himself!
It is not your place nor mine to apply human values and feelings to God and question His purposes. We are not mentally equipped to do that for we know little of the entire picture and the spiritual world.
I think you owe God an apology for doubting Him.
Next time you hear that hogwash, head for your Bible.
God will show you His Truth there.

Answer 7

Hell means the grave. There are three classifiactions of Hell: sheol, Gehenna and the everlasting Hell reserved for Satan, the false prophet and their followers. Revelation 20. You need a Concordance to find the meanings of the three.

Answer 8

Well Gods people would make sacrifices to clear themselves of sin, and children who are innocent did not go to hell, only those who did not make sacrifices to God or listen to Him, went to hell. if someone has NEVER had the chance to learn about Jesus then God has mercy on them.

Answer 9

Before Jesus, there still had to be a blood sacrifice of a pure unblemished animal to atone for sin.

Jesus was the last, ultimate blood sacrifice.

Answer 10

jesus died for all mankind's sin: Past, present, future.

True followers of God that made sacrifices (old blood covenant) are saved, true followers of God that accepted the gift of sacrifice from Jesus (new blood covenant) are saved.