Did all those people that lived and died before Christ was placed on earth go to hell?

Question

From what I hear if you don’t believe and accept Christ, you will go to hell. What about the people that lived more than 2000 years ago, what happened to them. As I see it we will all go to heaven because we are in hell now

Answer 1

Like Abraham, everyone living before Christ who had a righteousness from living by faith is in heaven. (their salvation was bought by Christ's death though, too. Their redemption price was paid after the fact, unlike ours which was paid BEFORE we believed.)

It wasn't just the Hebrews who practiced temple sacrifices who were declared righteous either -God rejected their sacrifices if there was not a "broken spirit and a contrite heart" behind them.

We see examples of many Gentiles who exercised faith and were justified by God -Enoch, Noah, Rahab, Ruth.
Not that these were completely converted into Yaweh worshippers, but we also see Nebuchadnezzar and Naaman acknowledging the One True God.

If you think this is hell, you ain't seen nothing like what it is really. But no, God won't force people who hate Him or worship another god or refuse to believe in Him to spend eternity in heaven with Him. Being in His presence, praising and worshipping Him forever would be intolerable, so He'll let them be in a place far, far away from any of that sort of existence. There they'll be, all by themselves away from that awful Deity.

Answer 2

Your query is well.God had despatched many messengers to the arena at distinctive occasions conveying his message.Every country had a messenger despatched to it.If men and women denied it, they had been punished for it. 7:34 And for each country is a [designated] time period. So whilst their time has come, they're going to now not stay in the back of an hour, nor will they precede [it]. :forty two And We have already despatched [messengers] to international locations earlier than you, [O Muhammad]; then We seized them with poverty and trouble that maybe they would humble themselves [to Us]. two:134 "That used to be a country which has handed on. It may have [the result of] what it earned, and you are going to have what you've gotten earned. And you are going to now not be requested approximately what they used to do." two:164 Indeed, within the construction of the heavens and earth, and the alternation of the night time and the day, and the [fine] ships which sail via the ocean with that which advantages men and women, and what Allah has despatched down from the heavens of rain, giving existence thereby to the earth after its lifelessness and dispersing therein each [variety of] relocating creature, and [His] directing of the winds and the clouds managed among the heaven and the earth are indicators for a men and women who use purpose. :104 And permit there be [bobbing up] from you a country inviting to [all that's] well, enjoining what's correct and forbidding what's flawed, and the ones would be the victorious. four:forty one So how [will or not it's] whilst We convey from each country a witness and we convey you, [O Muhammad] towards those [men and women] as a witness? five:forty eight And We have found out to you, [O Muhammad], the Book in fact, confirming that which preceded it of the Scripture and as a criterion over it. So pass judgement on among them by means of what Allah has found out and don't comply with their dispositions clear of what has come to you of the reality. To each and every of you We prescribed a legislation and a procedure. Had Allah willed, He could have made you one country [united in faith], however [He meant] to experiment you in what He has given you; so race to [all that's] well. To Allah is your go back all in combination, and He will [then] tell you regarding that over that you used to range.

Answer 3

Born again Christian here. According to scripture they are not all going to hell, but they will be judged.
Christ made the way for all to have be able to have access to heaven, although not all will take the necessary steps.
As for those who preceded Christ and even law.... we must recall that God's grace is far beyond our comprehension, and He alone is able to judge rightly, those who will be with Him, or not.

Answer 4

No they didn't go to hell.
Instead of accepting jesus christ they made sacrifices (first and best of thier livestock, fruit, etc). Thats how they got into heaven. After jesus was sent down to save us all from our sins however, acceptting him as our lord and saviour became the only way to get into heaven.

Answer 5

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 6

No, because Hell is a concept made up by religious fanatics from the Bronze Age that has no bearing on Reality.

Answer 7

most went to hell but when Jesus died on the cross He went to hell defeated the devil and released the captives.He preached to them and the ones who believed went to heaven

Answer 8

They're in hell, and we're going too, bud. Mindless christians think that everybody is going to hell except them. I guess that leaves over 200 other religions out in the cold. If you ask me, we should embrace hell. All the good rock groups are going to hell...right christians, know-it-alls? Right? I certainly don't want to hear Amy Grant sing...oh, wait, christians say she's going to hell too! They can have her!

Answer 9

that is a very interesting question! i am going to look forward to seeing religious fanantics explain that one. thank you for asking it.

as for me, well i m pagan so i dont believe in the whole heaven-hell theory but i would think that it would be wrong if the christian all mighy powerful compassionate god would eternally damn souls for being oblivious to his existence?

but then again he also "working in mysterious ways" so they'd prob find a way to justify it :)

Answer 10

I have asked this before, what about all those who lived before Christ and never came into contact with the Hebrew? how were they suppose to be saved?

There is no answer to this, god doesn't exist.