if only a Christian goes to heaven, what happened to everyone before Jesus was born?

Excelent question. It was about time to see a question like this! The Bible tells us:

(Psalm 37:11) 11 But the meek ones themselves will possess the earth, And they will indeed find their exquisite delight in the abundance of peace.

(Isaiah 45:18) For this is what Jehovah has said, the Creator of the heavens, He the [true] God, the Former of the earth and the Maker of it, He the One who firmly established it, who did not create it simply for nothing, who formed it even to be inhabited: “I am Jehovah, and there is no one else.

(Matthew 5:5) “Happy are the mild-tempered ones, since they will inherit the earth.

(Revelation 21:3) With that I heard a loud voice from the throne say: “Look! The tent of God is with mankind, and he will reside with them, and they will be his peoples. And God himself will be with them.

(John 5:28-29) 28 Do not marvel at this, because the hour is coming in which all those in the memorial tombs will hear his voice 29 and come out, those who did good things to a resurrection of life, those who practiced vile things to a resurrection of judgment.

I hope these scriptures helped you to see that they will be resurected and live on Earth forever. This is not something that is too hard to believe for there are reasons to believe in this, even before Jesus came to earth.

The evidence in the Bible record reveals that when Abraham attempted to offer up his son Isaac he had faith in God’s ability and purpose to raise the dead. And as stated at Hebrews 11:17-19, he did receive Isaac back from the dead “in an illustrative way.” (Ge 22:1-3, 10-13) Abraham had a basis for faith in a resurrection because of God’s promise of the “seed.” (Ge 3:15) Also, he and Sarah had already experienced something comparable to a resurrection in the revitalizing of their reproductive powers. (Ge 18:9-11; 21:1, 2, 12; Ro 4:19-21) Job expressed similar faith, saying, in his intense suffering: “O that in Sheol you would conceal me, . . . that you would set a time limit for me and remember me! If an able-bodied man dies can he live again? . . . You will call, and I myself shall answer you. For the work of your hands you will have a yearning.”—Job 14:13-15.

Resurrections were performed by or through the prophets Elijah and Elisha. (1Ki 17:17-24; 2Ki 4:32-37; 13:20, 21) However, these resurrected persons died again, as did those resurrected by Jesus when he was on earth as well as those resurrected by the apostles. This reveals that resurrection is not to everlasting life in every case.

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If you would like to know more about this and other themes, next time Jehovah's Witness come to your door, ask them for a free Bible study at your convenience. You will never regret all the knowledge you will acquire and remember that what you do with that knowledge is your choice.

Knowledge + Application = Wisdom

Imagine a perfect IT company:

If your a perfect designer, why do you create a flawed system in the first place?

If your a perfect troubleshooter, why are we still having problems?

God as the perfect designer creates a broken world and then instead of using his infinite power to make everything perfect, decides to send his son to die as the perfect solution.

2,000 years after his death, there are still problems.

Maybe we should hire a new programmer and a new IT guy.

P.S. I just thought, if we had a perfect designer, nothing would break, so we wouldn't need the IT support.

If God made everything perfect and designed to work perfectly, no one would need Jesus.

They were under the patriarchal (father) as leader of their families then the Mosaic laws. The laws and rules that they followed, were to make them temporally righteous until Jesus came. When Jesus came and died it was for their sins also. Jesus died for sinners before, during and after His life on this earth.

God gave human beings earlier Jesus a faith.Judaism,in the event that they observed that then the have been saved. yet bear in mind that earlier Jesus got here one and all went to hell because of the fact the gates of heaven have been closed.Jesus got here so He could pass to hell to convey the sturdy human beings into heaven at the same time as beginning the gates of heaven.

The gospel was taught from the beginning. There is an interesting Arabic Christian text which speaks of this.

http://www.sacred-texts.com/chr/aa/index.htm

http://www.sacred-texts.com/chr/aa/aa2.htm

Before in the older testament people saved by the law..Jesus is the word of God hi is de verb the begning and the finish, alfa and omega..he is God son..also hi is creating all thinks Geneses..sorry my english..God bless you..if you get Jesus by your faith Hi will show you who hi is by your experience..remember..you need coming to Jesus and Hi will enconter you.

"9There will be trouble and distress for every human being who does evil: first for the Jew, then for the Gentile; 10but glory, honor and peace for everyone who does good: first for the Jew, then for the Gentile. 11For God does not show favoritism." - Romans 2

Why would only Christians go to heaven.

Also Romans 11 says Jews go to heaven, also the quote I just said.

They all got thrown in the recycling bin and churned out as atheists or Hindus or whatever so that future Christians would have something to demonise.

Now listen here: It is true that the road to heaven is through Jesus, but that doesn't mean that God rejects any good person.

Will wonders ever cease? For once I agree with Chris, the pastor.

exactly! this is the reason that all religious beliefs are suspect. what about everyone who came before? Are all of them doomed to hell, or are they given a pass because their deaths pre-dated the savior, whether his name is Buddha, Vishnu, Jesus or Mohammed. If yes to the first alternative, then the religion and its god are the devil; and if yes to the second, then what's the point of the religion if entry to eden is open to non-believers. Religion exists to relieve you of your assets, and to rope you into a political framework that sanctions the murder of its opponents.