Before Jesus was in the flesh there was no Christianity religion, right?

Question

Did everyone before then, (Jesus' birth), burn in hell on the count of their beliefs because obviously they couldnt except Jesus as their Lord and savior?

Answer 1

Well actually God him self talked to his select people like Moses or Noah. He didn't appear in physical sight but he spoke to them through their mind.

As for the people who died before the coming of Christ are waiting to be judged at the end of the earths days.

Answer 2

No. There was no Christian religion before Christ's birth. The people that lived under the Law had animal sacrifice and the Seder Passover with which to get atonement or forgiveness of sins. The problem was that this atonement was performed only ONCE a year, so that if a person fell back into sin and died before the next Passover, they could POSSIBLY end up in Hell! Even when Jesus was ALIVE, the Law was still in effect, for He was quoted as saying, "I come not to abolish the LAW, but to fulfill it (amend it)." Jesus' teaching and death ushered Christianity into effect and made it possible for people to get salvation on their OWN accord, IF they did so with a GODLY sorrow, not just putting on a show for others! The Bible says that we're not to worship Him "...with LIPSERVICE as MENPLEASERS....." When Christ died and the veil of the Temple was torn from top to bottom, it marked the beginning of man being able to achieve salvation WITHOUT animal sacrifice and that man could walk before the throne of grace BOLDLY as was quoted by the Apostle Paul.

Answer 3

True there were no Christians. But no everyone didn't go to hell, they were saved if they followed Jewish Law. Their sins were covered by the blood of the sacrifices in the old testament. Jesus came to fulfill the Law, and he became the final sacrifice for all sins. God says only blood can pay for sins, that is why Jesus's blood is so precious.

Answer 4

Even After Jesus died there was still no Christianity, it took many years for the Christian religion to become a separate religion from Judaism, at first it was a Jewish group who believed Jesus was the Jewish Messiah, but slowly it changed.
and the Idea of Heaven and hell, as in the Christian religion, is very different from the Jewish concept.

Answer 5

Abraham believed in Jesus, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.

Moses, Noah, Job, David, Elijah, Jeremiah, etc.....had faith in Christ.

Christ was crucified before the foundation of the world. And the coming Messiah was prophesied since the fall of man. All those in the time before the cross, looked forward to the cross. Those who live today, look back to the cross, for there, our redemption was bought.

Answer 6

Are you currently aware that the Lord (not lord) from Genesis-Malachi was the Lord Jesus Christ? (or have you previously been influenced by the addition (roughly 100 year old) to God's word?

Answer 7

There was NO christianity until AFTER the Death of Jesus, everything before then was Jewish


-peace in christ-

Answer 8

We were predesignated that is chosen by God before the world begun. When Christ died, he was the offering for everyone of God's children before his birth and after. He finished the work for us all.

Answer 9

Jesus was a Jew.... They followed a bit more stricter doctrine, but the Heaven-Hell thing was still active.

Answer 10

Wrong,
First of all, Christ birth was not the time that Christ existed. He has always existed, because He is God the Son; He just did not have a flesh and blood body prior to His birth. However, He is the Lamb that was slain from the creation of the world (Rev 13:8). So before His birth, God credited Christ death as an “I owe you.” Just like you write down I owe you to someone, you promise that one day you will pay it. The same is true of God. Before Christ came to the earth, God promised all people that one day He will pay for their debt, and so he counted their debts paid even before Christ died.

So how did He save them without the Holy Spirit regenerating them? Remember, Christ is the wisdom of God (1 Cor 1:24), and His wisdom has been available from the beginning of creation. By wisdom the LORD laid the earth's foundations (Prov 3:19). Jesus is the one who laid the earth’s foundations. Through him all things were made (John 1:3). Jesus, prior to His birth, existed in the form of the wisdom of God. When someone “found Jesus” they found “wisdom.” This wisdom enabled people to live righteous lives, just as the Holy Spirit gives us this ability. People’s noble lives proved that they had touched Christ in some way, or should I say, Christ touched them in some way.

The book of Proverbs is the book of Wisdom. I want you to notice that Solomon wrote nearly all the Proverbs, however, the last two chapters were written by two other men: Agur and King Lemuel. Search Israel’s biblical genealogy and you will notice that these two men are not mentioned in the Bible. A closer look at their names reveals that they were Gentiles and not Jews. How did Gentiles have a part in writing the Old Testament? Simple: wisdom is all inclusive. It belongs to all people who desire it.

Agur wrote: “I have not learned wisdom, nor have I knowledge of the Holy One.” (Prov 30:3) This was his humble way of saying that he did not know God in the same way as the Jews. Then he adds: “Who has established all the ends of the earth? What is his name, and the name of his son?” (Prov 30:4)

He did not know the name of God’s son, yet he had wisdom—enough that God would place his words in the Word of God. This shows you that non-Jews were saved outside of the Jewish system of sacrifices.

When I look in the past before Christ was born, I discover many religious leaders and philosophers that had the wisdom of God, and so I conclude that they were saved by Christ.

Consider Buddha: he lived 500 hundred years before Christ, yet he was enlightened by wisdom. Look at his eight-fold path and you will recognize much of the Sermon on the Mount. How did he get such truth before Christ was born? He received this truth simply because Christ came to him in the form of wisdom. Don’t misunderstand me: Buddha cannot save; only Christ can. I do not believe today's Buddhists are saved; only that if Buddha were alive today, he would be a Christian. The point is that I believe Christ saved Buddha and the evidence of his salvation was his wisdom. (Of course, only the Lord knows each heart, and He is the final Judge.)

We could say this about some philosophers like Aristotle and Plato. They often showed the spark of wisdom that could only come from Christ. In fact the early church fathers used their writings to confirm the truth of the gospel, and that was one way the western world accepted the gospel.

For those who want a clearer scripture to prove that non Jews were saved prior to Christ, then consider the words of our Lord: "The Queen of the South will rise at the judgment with this generation and condemn it; for she came from the ends of the earth to listen to Solomon's wisdom, and now one greater than Solomon is here." (Matt 12:42) Jesus plainly considered the Queen of Sheba to be saved, or else how could she judge the generation of Christ? What was the evidence that she was saved? She came to hear the wisdom of God spoken through Solomon. There is no evidence in Scripture or in history to suggest that the queen ever became a Jew. Her hunger for wisdom confirmed her acceptance of Christ.

In conclusion, people prior to the birth of Christ were saved through Him by His wisdom. They were not saved in the sense of being born again and filled with the Spirit, but they were saved with the meaning of being forgiven by God. They did not enter heaven upon their death, because the way for heaven was not made available until Christ ascension, however they were in paradise (see Luke 16:19-31). During Christ ascension they were then carried into heaven with Him. That is where they are today—in heaven with Christ.