Because they couldnt accept Jesus since he didnt exist yet?
2007-05-23 22:38:18 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
Read the Book of Romans and find this ......."THOSE WHO DO NOT KNOW THE LAW, AND YET FOLLOW THE LAW, ARE A LAW UNTO THEMSELVES."
This means that even those who did not, or do not today, know of Christ and the law he gave to the Christians, and yet follow this law because they are good people at heart, still have a chance for heaven.....At least that's my interpretation.
After all, Christ only gave us ONE law to follow to be good Christians and that is "Love thy neighbor as thyself." If an American Indian living in 400 AD did that then he would have been 'a law unto himself'.
2007-05-24 06:00:53 · answer #1 · answered by cme2bleve 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Spartans believed in the underworld. They percieved this as a grey, baren place, where shades of men roamed. You had to cross the River Styx to get there and paid the ferryman in two copper coins. It did not matter if you were good, bad, indiferent. You went to Hades.
Western depictions of Hell tend to be horror stories woven by the imaginations of the early Christian church, although Dante had a big impact. The Devils depiction is usually a Pan type figure, while God gets his/her make over directly from Zeuse. So given the Greek influence on our depictions of the Christian afterlife, you could argue that all ancient Greeks went to hell.
From the religiouse stand point, the debate regarding the afterlife of all pre-Christians has been debated. I believe that it only effects those who have been shown the truth and ignored it. So the spread of people joining the ranks of hell could probably be mapped by the failure rates to convert, suffered by various saints and missionaries.
An interesting point is that the Devil is only mentioned twice in the Bible. All other add ons and embelishments come from other sources, like church paintings and writings of people like Dante.
As for the earlier quote about the Persians. Sorry, they were not Muslims. The conflict against Greece preceeded Mohamed by quite a few centuries.
Luck
2007-05-24 00:38:35 · answer #2 · answered by Alice S 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You are correct!
For Spartans and all Greeks there was no Hell, neither paradise nor any of these nonsense!
They were "invented" by Emperor Constantine the Great, in the 4th century to enable him to rule his empire!
2007-05-23 22:42:57 · answer #3 · answered by soubassakis 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
I believe they would have gone to the Underworld and had an appointment with Hades instead. They accepted Hades and Zeus too.
2007-05-23 22:47:23 · answer #4 · answered by WMD 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Only God knows. However I would not want to face God after living in a society that threw little new born babies over the cliff to death because they were under 9 lbs. and thought to be too small for their killing machine army.
2007-05-23 22:54:31 · answer #5 · answered by Kenneth L 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes they went to the underworld (hades)
they may have even entered The Elysian fields, a place in the underworld reserved for the heroic and virtuous
2007-05-24 00:12:40 · answer #6 · answered by Bobuck 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
With Pluto
2007-05-23 23:13:59 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
ok let me tell u this the story in the movie is nufin like the actual events that happened. spartans were defeated by the persians which were muslims. spartans they went to hell
2007-05-23 22:44:03 · answer #8 · answered by t600 1 · 0⤊ 4⤋