Juidaism 4000 years old, Christianity 2000 years old, Islam 1400 years old. What happened to people 4001 years ago?!?
2007-10-07 11:00:19 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Alright, forgive my ignorance! If Judaism is 6000 years old, how did people get to heaven 6000years & one day ago!!!
2007-10-07 11:15:02 · update #1
Haha good question!
2007-10-08 19:02:02 · answer #1 · answered by xanadu88 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Huzzah! I asked this a while ago! As I'm an agnost (although leaning atheist) it is also fair to ask which "heaven" you're going to. Since there's only one (be it heaven, walahalla, etc etc etc) even if you follow your religion you're surely not gauranteed to get to your heaven, as there's a real chance you've been following the wrong religion anyway. I mean, are all the christians up there at the gates of walahalla thinking they've been led a merry dance?!)
This adds to my theory that good and just people would go to a "better" place (somewhere like the IKEA restuarant where meatballs are only £3.25) and all those who are unjust, get sent to the underworld, probably Croydon immigration centre. Their final place depends not in their religion, but on their humanitarian actions.
2007-10-07 23:20:49 · answer #2 · answered by Steven N 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i'm definetly no longer a pupil of classical examine, yet i be attentive to it is going a minimum of as some distance returned because of the fact the classic Greeks. Thier variations have been the Elysian Fields (heavenish) and Tartarus (hellish) - the two have been element of Hades, the area of the ineffective. I have little doubt comparable myths existed each and every of the some time past to prehistoric guy - there ought to be some style of motivation to stay a stable existence - so the human beings are taught they are going to be rewarded or punished for thier movements in existence.
2016-12-14 10:25:12 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Before the advent of Christianity, people believed that when you're dead you're dead. Sheol was the "unknown" of the grave. Gehinnom was a valley where the downtrodden lived in the open with open fires and smoke.
The Egyptians believed in an afterlife for the pharoahs. All Egyptians were required to help prepare the pharoah for his journey to heaven in the aferlife.
Christianity borrowed heaven and hell from Zoroastrianism.
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2007-10-07 11:07:50 · answer #4 · answered by Hatikvah 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Just the same as they do today (well OK with the slight difference of looking to the future rather than to the past).
Abraham was just like the rest of us, did stuff wrong, didn't deserve heaven. But God promised him that he would have a descendant through whom the entire earth would be blessed. The Bible says that Abraham "believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness".
However many years later Jesus comes to earth as the Messiah promised to the Jewish people, the one who would be bruised by Satan, but who would crush Satan's head. He went willingly to the cross to pay for our sins, and defeated death by rising again. He is now in heaven as our advocate before God the Father.
So basically we get to heaven by trusting in God to get us their, not our own sin stained efforts.
2007-10-08 04:21:06 · answer #5 · answered by trebor88 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Good question!
I can only give you the Islamic viewpoint:
God sent messengers (prophets) to all civilizations at one point or another, who have called them to worship Him alone. Some of these messages have become distorted, but God alone is able to see into everyone´s heart and is able to judge who is pure and who is not (meaning, who has let themselves be led astray from what their heart has told them!).
Hope this helped.
2007-10-07 11:03:33 · answer #6 · answered by jenny 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
When you don't know about an imagined place, then you don't concern your self with it. They believed in different things back then.
It also depends on what part of the world you were from back then to determine your belief system.
2007-10-07 11:20:10 · answer #7 · answered by Wandering_Man 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Great question.
Or... why did god wait 3.5 billion years before he created the first life form on earth, and then wait until 5768 years ago before he created the first human. And then, not tell him the rules for another few thousand years.
the ways in which religion is silly has no bounds.
2007-10-07 11:10:37 · answer #8 · answered by Morey000 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
There's scant evidence that the concept of heaven predates the concept of religion.
2007-10-07 11:08:32 · answer #9 · answered by monsewer icks 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Judaism is 6000 years old, the age of the planet.
2007-10-07 11:12:52 · answer #10 · answered by papadego 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
When Jesus died , he went into Sheol and it was there that he found these people that were good people and he brought them with him to Heaven.
2007-10-07 13:03:03 · answer #11 · answered by Midge 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋