Spiritual questioning?

Question

if Jesus died for our sins, and there were people before Christ, then what happened to those people before Him that sinned? did they all go to hell?

Answer 1

accodding to the bible in Acts 24:15 "and I have hope toward God, which hope these [men] themselves also entertain, that there is going to be a resurrection of both the righteous and the unrighteous2

WHEN Jesus rules the earth (Revelation 5:10) he will resurrect people who hadn´t the oportunity to hear about him.

Answer 2

The people who died before Jesus were in a sleep state those who had not already gone to judgment.
When Jesus was resurrected into heaven after taking away the sins of the world, he took all those who were asleep with him to judgment. Jesus made it possible to get into Heaven for judgement.
As he said to the thief on the cross beside him, today you shall see Paradise.
You still will open your book of life and be accountable for your thoughts, words and deeds. By Jesus dying, you are able to stand in the Hall of records and see your book of records. Those who were asleep were washed clean before the could get into heaven by the grace of God and the sacrifice of Jesus for humanity. He bought humanity time.
Rev. TomCat

Answer 3

I think Jesus died to forgive the sins of all people for all time. Christ is not limited by time and space. I think Jesus sacrifice was good for all time.,

Answer 4

Jesus went to Hell and preached to those who had perished before his time had came

..1 Peter 3:18-19 For Christ died for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you to God. He was put to death in the body but made alive by the Spirit, through whom also he went and preached to the spirits in prison who disobeyed long ago.

Answer 5

God Bless you...

No, not all sinners went to hell just because they didn't have a chance to know Jesus...Remember, the Bible teaches us that all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God (Romans 3:23). But Abraham was credited with righteousness because of his belief and trust in God...I agree with the previous writer who said that those who trusted God, did not worship idols, and who served God with all they had were justified.

Jesus died to pay for all sin--past, present, and future--for those who believe in Him. And since we believe in the Trinity, belief in Christ is belief in God, and that all of history is the story of God's redemptive plan for man, then it is not a stretch at all to say that those who died before Christ who believed in God and lived like they believed, they will be saved...

Answer 6

Remember that Abraham was saved through faith, hundreds of years before Jesus. So, Jesus sacrifice can also be applied for people who lived before him; Jesus existed even before he came to earth! So, people who lived before Christ may be saved. See Heb.11, for instance, for a list of people before Christ who had saving faith, according to the Bible. Another example is Job.
But what we should care more is what are WE who live now do about Jesus!

a possible explanation (short):
http://www.rbc.org/bible_study/answers_to_tough_questions/answers/30845.aspx

another one (very long, but very well based explanation, imho):
http://www.christian-thinktank.com/hnohear.html

Hope this helps

Answer 7

Those that lived and died before Christ were in the spirit world, waiting for Him to preach to them and teach them the Gospel. They did not all go to hell.

Answer 8

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 9

No, Abraham lived before Jesus came to this earth yet his belief in God was counted as righteousness in Gods eyes.

So according to the Bible, everyone who knew of God and believed in him and didn't worship false idols or false gods were saved from hell. King David, Daniel etc...

Answer 10

NO. They walked in the covenant that God made with Abraham. They went to the bosom of Abraham when they died. When Jesus died on the cross He went to where they were and took them to heaven with Him.