What about all the people who died before Christ was born?

Question

Are they in heaven?

Answer 1

They are buried in the grave and are still there waiting for the resurrection.

"...The hour is coming in which all those in the memorial tombs will hear his voice  and come out, those who did good things to a resurrection of life, those who practiced vile things to a resurrection of judgment." John 5:28-29

Answer 2

Genesis 3:15 says...

3:15 And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.

How does that apply to people born before christ?

Another christian liar and manipulator caught.

The answer is this: There is no heaven or hell. Heaven is a made up concept that can never be proven or disproven so that you can control the masses by promising eternal reward for living through hell on earth and still be play nicely with each other since you didn't want to lose your 'eternal reward'. It's a fantasy of hope.

All we have is that which is here in the physical plane, so I would rather make the most of it now than hope there's a chance there is something better when I'm dead.

Answer 3

I don't think anyone is in heaven yet; all souls are at rest until the Second Coming of Christ. The people who never knew Christ will be judged by God in a different way, since they never knew the way to salvation. Don't worry; God is a just judge! He will not send anyone away who really loved Him!

Answer 4

They will be judged according to their dispensation. God won't judge them by what he hasn't revealed to them yet. God provided a way back to Him in each dispensation of time. In the New Testament, we are redeemed by obeying what is written in St. John 3:5 and Acts 2:38. We know that we have fulfilled this by experiencing what is written in Acts 2:4, 10:44-46, 19:6 and verified with St. Mark 16:16-17. This is our Salvation Plan as laid out by God. Any other way is impossible.

Answer 5

Once you become a born again believer , when you die your soul immediately goes to heaven.Animal sacrifices ( blood ) were made before Christ for sins, but that was just a temporary payment .There was eternal mercy in Christ blood.

Answer 6

Since the fall of man, the basis of salvation has always been the death of Christ. No one, either prior to the cross or since the cross, would ever be saved without that one pivotal event in the history of the world. Christ's death paid the penalty for past sins of Old Testament saints and future sins of New Testament saints.
The requirement for salvation has always been faith. The object of one's faith for salvation has always been God. The psalmist wrote, "Blessed are all those who put their trust in Him" (Psalm 2:12). Genesis 15:6 tells us that Abraham believed God and that was enough for God to account it to him for righteousness (see also Romans 4:3-8). The Old Testament sacrificial system did not take away sin, as Hebrews 9:1-10:4 clearly teaches. It did, however, point to the day when the Son of God would shed His blood for the sinful human race.
What has changed through the ages is the content of a believer's faith. God's requirement of what must be believed is based on the amount of revelation He has given mankind up to that time. This is called progressive revelation. Adam believed the promise God gave in Genesis 3:15 that the Seed of the woman would conquer Satan. Adam believed Him, demonstrated by the name he gave Eve (v.20) and the Lord indicated His acceptance immediately by covering them with coats of skin (v.21). At that point that is all Adam knew, but he believed it.
Abraham believed God according to the promises and new revelation God gave him in Genesis 12 and 15. Prior to Moses, no Scripture was written, but mankind was responsible for what God had revealed. Throughout the Old Testament, believers came to salvation because they believed that God would someday take care of their sin problem. Today, we look back, believing that He has already taken care of our sins on Calvary (John 3:16; Hebrews 9:28).
What about believers in Christ's day, prior to the cross and resurrection, what did they believe? Did they understand the full picture of Christ dying on a cross for their sins? Late in his ministry, "Jesus began to show to His disciples that He must go to Jerusalem, and suffer many things from the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and be raised the third day" (Matthew 16:21). What was the reaction of His disciples to this message? "Then Peter took Him aside and began to rebuke Him, saying, '‘Far be it from you, Lord; this shall not happen to you!'" (16:22). Peter, and the other disciples, did not know the full truth, yet they were saved because they believed that God would take care of their sin problem. They didn't exactly know how He would accomplish that, any more than Adam, Abraham, Moses, or David knew how, but they believed God.
Today, we have more revelation than did people living before the resurrection of Christ, we know the full picture. "God, who at various times and in various ways spoke in time past to the fathers by the prophets, has in these last days spoken to us by His Son" (Hebrews 1:1-2). Our salvation is still based on the death of Christ, our faith is still the requirement for salvation, and the object of our faith is still God. Today for us the content of our faith is that Christ died for our sins, that He was buried, and that He rose the third day (1 Corinthians 15:3-4).

Answer 7

Maybe through the wisdom of Christ.

Answer 8

they were in paradise b4 and when christ died His blood/life released them to enter heaven and he closed the door on paradise. no one goes to paradise any longer which is the gulf between heaven and hell. today everyone either goes to heaven or hell. purgatory does not exist. this is your purgatory now in a sense to accept christ to attone for your sin.

Answer 9

They are exactly like people today, who don't understand why Jesus went to the cross. He loved us, more than he loved his own life. When you get to heaven, that's who you'll spend eternity with. People who love you. Not war heroes, CEOs, scientists, or even preachers. And my dog.

Answer 10

all the way back to adam and eve-saved by faith believing in the forgiveness of the coming Messiah-till he came-Genesis 3:15

from a Jew that repented and let Jesus into my heart to forgive my sins and be my best friend=John 3