Will the people born before Jesus will go to hell, cuz they didn't (or couldn't) had any faith on him?

Question

Given the fact that human race exist on earth from million of years, right from the cave man days. How come God send the King just 2000 years before? I see its unfair for those people, for missing so much.

Answer 1

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).

Answer 2

if you pray about it and ask the lord for the truth if that's what you seek you will find i did and found the truth but be prepared it wont be what you thought and it will require a lot of work and time the true religion has Always been corrupted since Adam and eve so if you look at all religion as having some truth from the beginning you will find there is only one religion that combines what is True from all and make sense the oldest religion was parsis or known as Zoroastrianism the the Jewish then Christianity Muslim Hindu Buddha cause why would god just talk to one group oof people it wouldnt be fair and in the bible it never says that others didnt have the gospel it said the jews were the chosen yes history has and physics has shown that it could happen in about 1810 there was an earthquake and the missippi river flowed upstream

Answer 3

The people born before the time of the fictional Jesus have already gone to hell.

The word hell was not used in any Biblical text prior to its being translated to Goth. Sheol is the Hebrew word and it simply means the grave or the pit into which a body is placed when they are dead.

Greek translations introduce Hades, also a grave, and Gehenna. Gehenna is a specific place, a ravine or pit into which trash was thrown and later burned. Sometimes human corpses were tossed into the burning pit instead of being buried. To tell someone that their dead corpse would be tossed into the burning pit was a severe insult.

The word Hades was also used for pits that sometimes served as a holding cell to punish people. The most severe form of punishment was to toss someone into one of these pits and leave them there until they died.

The modern Christian concept of Hell corresponds with Old Norse traditions of a cavernous underworld that was always dark. A Pagan concept linked to the day/night, dark/light tradition do darkness always being evil and scary.

Don't loose any sleep over the whole issue, Jesus is a myth and so is Heaven and Hell.

Answer 4

Well, that's no problem for Christians, because they don't believe in cavemen. God created Adam and Eve. BOOM! They know who god is, and he does random things and talks to random people throughout the old testament in spirit form. People know about him through word of mouth.

New Testament, Jesus gets here, blah, blah, blah...everyone knows how that ended, and now we're in 2007.

THAT is history in a nutshell for Christians. Not for me.

Answer 5

I must say this is a very profound question! Thank you very much! I am Muslim therefore the doctrine on which you speak of is not the one i know of! Wow very deep! I shall pay attention to learn with the Christians believers shall teach - not only you but many!

Answer 6

Kaka,
We will each be Judged by CHRIST from the Book that was around when we lived. We all have different times and circumstances that we lived under. HE will take everything into HIS Judgment I imagine. Have a wonderful evening.
Thanks,
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Answer 7

People that lived for the one true God of Israel in the Old testament were saved

Answer 8

No. They were born under the Mosaic Law and will be judged accordingly. Christ fulfilled the Mosaic Law and gave us a New Covenant.

Answer 9

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 unrighteous."

Will the
Dead
Live Again?

http://www.watchtower.org/library/w/2005/5/1/article_02.htm

Answer 10

There were reincarnated till Jesus was here then there souls were taken to heaven the same time
Jesus went.