If you have to be Christian to be saved, then what about all the good people before Jesus' time and before Christianity era? Did God just say "oops" and decide to save them just because? I'm not an atheist, but people who think that following their religion makes them "chosen" or "saved" are ridiculous.
2007-04-12 03:21:38 · 18 answers · asked by Dusk 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
exactly put Riegan. But limbo? Why if they were good? Because they weren't in organized religion? Just disproves the Bible (although I don't disagree with the notion of God, its just not the way christians make it to be).
2007-04-12 03:26:26 · update #1
It's not being a Christian that saves you. it's following after Jesus accepting him as your savior. As far as the people before Jesus' time, they had their own relationship with God. God sent Jesus to make things better for the people to come. There were other ways to be saved before Jesus. I reccomend you read the Old Testement sometime, and I don't mean that in a condesending way. The best way to find out about a religion is to look at the core and the founder of it not by observing the people who claim to practice it. After all we are humans with many flaws.
2007-04-12 03:27:02 · answer #1 · answered by kristonianinstitution 4 · 4⤊ 1⤋
Jesus was just another avatar that the Supreme Being brought into the world. People decided to form an exclusive religion around this avatar and create a notion of hell heaven and being saved.
It's not about being saved. It's about enlightenment and liberation.
2007-04-12 03:39:02 · answer #2 · answered by Jade 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Harvest started after the Word was sown.
__Retro-Harvest Post Crucifixion__
The ones that lived before Christ, how are they harvested? The same manner many will be harvested. First, sow the Word of God.
I Pet.3:18-19 For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the Just for the unjust, that He might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit: 19 By which also He went and preached unto the spirits in prison;
I Pet.4:6 For for this cause was the gospel preached also to them that are dead, that they might be judged according to men in the flesh, but live according to God in the spirit.
Good news the gospel preached to them also, the spirits in prison, those in bondage to sin.
2007-04-12 03:37:17 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Before Jesus, they had the Mosaic laws... they would be judged according to those laws...?...
I think people are saved for not worshipping anything besides God. The Bible states that 'Your God is a jealous God.' We aren't supposed to associate anything with Him, or worship anything in His place.
2007-04-12 03:39:56 · answer #4 · answered by bint_bill 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Before Yeshua came down to earth he was taught about; and faith, or trust was placed in him as messiah. Beginning with ish {adam}and isha{life or eve God spoke and there was no excuse for lack of trust then and there isnt one now.
from the beginning to now, messiah has always been taught; and those who believed {trusted} and looked at the law saw that the law was summed up in two commands.Love the Lord your God and love your neighbor as yourself.
Remember, these so called good people saw the miracles God did,and still rebelled.
They never perished for rebellion but for lack of trust{faith}. and besides,who are these "good people you speak of? ; )
2007-04-12 03:59:55 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
That was the very reason why Jesus went to the spirit world to preach before His resurrection. He then delegated certain priesthood holders to continue in the preaching of His gospel to those spirits never having the opportunity to hear of Jesus Christ while in mortality.
The same spiritual preaching is going on as we communicate this thought.
2007-04-12 03:30:53 · answer #6 · answered by Guitarpicker 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
From the curse of the serpent in the garden till the death of Christ on the cross, all men looked forward to that 'Seed of the Woman' Whose heel would be bruised by the serpent, but Who would, in the process of that bruising, crush the head of the serpent. Men have understood that God would provide, at some point, that Perfect Sacrifice, Whose shed blood would cover and wash our sins away completely.
Believers before Christ looked forward to His coming, and accepted that sacrifice in faith. They were saved by their faith in what God said.
2007-04-12 03:30:41 · answer #7 · answered by ? 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
In the New Testament it says that while Jesus was dead, he descended into the netherworld and preached to the souls imprisoned there. That was why he died...even he himself was bound to have to enter the dead realm by being dead himself. It also says that when He arose / ascended that he led the captive out. I think that is right.
2007-04-12 03:43:43 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
i've heard that those people were waiting in limbo or something until jesus came and then they were given the opportunity to be saved.
but who knows - there are plenty of good people on the earth today that don't know christianity, what happens to them?
2007-04-12 03:25:30 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
People before Christ looked forward to the Lamb of GOD who would die for their sins. They were saved by GOD's grace through their faith (just as we are today.)
The older texts of the Bible (pre-Christ) record the belief of the Hebrews that the Christ would come. Therefore, when Jesus rode into Jerusalem, many met Him and were overjoyed at the arrival of the Christ. They had been waiting for Him for many centuries.
2007-04-12 03:31:00 · answer #10 · answered by Hawk 5 · 1⤊ 2⤋