if jesus told everyone about god......?

Question

yeh, if jesus told everyone about god and those that didnt believe in god went to hell, did everyone that died before jesus was born go to hell?

Answer 1

No.....................before the law - everyone went to heaven including those who were in the flood. (1 Peter)

After the law, those who looked forward in faith to Christ.

Now...........the blood of Christ......He became sin for us.

Answer 2

Wow. Well, Ill work it backwards. Who killed the thousands of others that were crucified in the first century? Specifically the Romans, to crush the Maccabean Revolt (see the book of Maccabees--the roots of Hanakuh). These Jews were mercilessly slaughtered. But if you are suggesting that "this was part of God's plan like Jesus' death was", I would say "God gives and God takes away" -Job. An ancient Jewish idea is that God is responsible for both good and bad... Jesus was _intentionally_ acting out prophecy. He often knew what prophecies he was trying to fulfill, etc, and He says this in the Gospels, if you read them you can find where he says "take up your swords, and if you dont have them, buy them, so as to fulfill the saying, 'he was counted among theives'". He often did those things. I think that He had a clear understanding of Isaiah 53, The Man of Sorrows in contrast to the Man of Victory, in a later chapter, and understood that was what He had to accomplish. I've had trouble with this, because Ive always thot Abraham set precedence for no human sacrifice when God told him to spare his son after telling him to sacrifice him. So I guess God did 'plan this before all time'. Don't ask me why. I think His reason's are completely arbitrary, He does as He does. No, it was the Jews who said" His blood be upon us and our children!" after shouting "Crucify Him! Crucify Him! To Pontius Pilate." So that verse has caused a lot of Christian anti-semitism. And some muslims I have talked to believe that the Jews are cursed. I know that the Jewish Scriptures express how they dilly dallied in idolatry and therefore suffered the diaspora, but it depends on if you think Jesus was a fraud or not. If he was they did the right thing, if not, then not so much. But, Jesus said, "Father, forgive them, they know not what they do" anyway.

Answer 3

The purpose of Jesus' coming was to set humankind free from the condemnation that their sin deserved. The answer is that being separated from God IS hell. Everyone was destined for an eternal afterlife in separation from God until Jesus came.
However, when Jesus was put to death, he really experienced the same death that every human until that point had experienced, and by doing so set free even those people who had already died.

This means that the offer of salvation through Christ was given even to those who had died before Jesus's time on earth.

Hope this makes sense.

Answer 4

When Adam and Eve sinned in the garden, the sacrifice of an animal was the first death ever recorded. This death paid the price for Adam and Eve and clothed their nakedness. At this point, God spoke the first Messianic prophecy of One who will come and crush the head of the serpent.
Until the coming of the Levitical Law, those that came to God were justified by faith--such as Abraham. When the Levitical system was put in place, faith was exercised via a "type" or "model" of He who was to come - that is, the Lamb of God. However, this model was only a temporary covering for sin until Yeshua came and took the sins away. Hence the need to repeat it yearly.

When Isaac asked of his father where the lamb was for the sacrifice, Abraham said, "God will provide Himself a Lamb." This was seen when John the Baptist pointed to Jesus and proclaimed "Behold the Lamb of God that takes away the sin of the world."
If we ask Jesus to be Lord and Savior, we are, in essence, passing our sins onto Him as our personal lamb. Our payment was paid in full on the cross. Which is why Jesus said "Tetelestai" or "paid in full" (commonly translated as "it is finished").

The cross is nothing new. It had been fortold since Genesis. The work that Yeshua did on the cross was the completion of a plan that had already been in place thousands of years before.

All those who trusted in the coming redemption were justified by their faith. Just as we, looking back, will be justified in our faith.

http://www.schneblin.com/studies/pdfs/in_the_volume_of_the_book.pdf

This is all explained indepth in Hebrews chapters 9 through 11.

Answer 5

The following scripture alludes to Christ preaching himself in hell to in order that those who died before him could accept him and be freed. many believe he did this during the three days in the tomb.


1 Peter 3:18-22

18 Christ suffered[d] for our sins once for all time. He never sinned, but he died for sinners to bring you safely home to God. He suffered physical death, but he was raised to life in the Spirit.[e]

19 So he went and preached to the spirits in prison—20 those who disobeyed God long ago when God waited patiently while Noah was building his boat. Only eight people were saved from drowning in that terrible flood.[f] 21 And that water is a picture of baptism, which now saves you, not by removing dirt from your body, but as a response to God from[g] a clean conscience. It is effective because of the resurrection of Jesus Christ.

22 Now Christ has gone to heaven. He is seated in the place of honor next to God, and all the angels and authorities and powers accept his authority.

Answer 6

Even the believers can't decide that one! The Catholics used to believe that souls who died before they were exposed to Christianity (such as babies who died before Christening) went to Limbo. They've recently decided to say that Limbo doesn't exist, but haven't made it clear what happens in that case now. You have hit upon one of the central inconsistencies of religious belief, and one of the reasons I am not a believer!

Answer 7

ok i'm a bit confused. if jesus told everyone about god, and those who didn't believe in god went to hell, but if they don't believe in god then how can they believe in hell?

Answer 8

1st answer is in the right ballpark.

Relevant verses: 1Pe 3:18-20
18. For Christ also died for sins once for all, the just for the unjust, in order that He might bring us to God, having been put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit;
19. in which also He went and made proclamation to the spirits now in prison,
20. who once were disobedient, when the patience of God kept waiting in the days of Noah, during the construction of the ark, in which a few, that is, eight persons, were brought safely through the water.

Jim, http://www.jimpettis.com/wheel/

Answer 9

The typical response to your question is that Abraham, Moses, King David and all the others who lived before Jesus were judged based upon the divine revelations understood at their time in history.

God did not hold people responsible for information which had not yet been revealed. They believed in God and the promises of redemption and their faith in that was sufficient.

Answer 10

Hell is the common grave of mankind who are waiting for a Resurrection. So yes.

Answer 11

Don't know or care but I do know that if Christians who've supported the US genocide in Iraq and Afghanistan don't go to hell then I don't want to go to heaven.