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Question #1: Correct me if I'm wrong, but Jesus is considered a savior from Adam's sin. Does that mean everyone that was born before Jesus is going to hell?


Question #2:Everyone that isn't Christian is going to hell. Isn't this unfair for someone who was born in a non-Christian home and was never taught about Christianity?

Question #3:God created the world in six days. Isn't it absurd that an all-powerful God has to rest on the seventh day?
 

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No doubt you will get a variety of responses to these very good questions. My responses are based on the following belief which may seem blasphemous to some, but I can't help that:

One can interpret the Creation story and much of Geneisis as literally true or symbolic. Neither belief can prove the other wrong. I am more firmly entrenched in the symbolic camp.
Question #1: Correct me if I'm wrong, but Jesus is considered a savior from Adam's sin. Does that mean everyone that was born before Jesus is going to hell?

I don't believe so, but the ultimate destination of a person's soul is up to God, not me nor any other mere mortal. We can give an opinion / belief about a person's destiny, but that seems tricky at best.

Question #2:Everyone that isn't Christian is going to hell. Isn't this unfair for someone who was born in a non-Christian home and was never taught about Christianity?

See the response to question 1. I have trouble believing that a God capable of creating the known universe, showing love and grace throughout the Hebrew Bible (aka the Old Testament) as well as the New Testament is going to sentence countless people to an eternal damnation simply because they were never shown the Gospel.

Question #3:God created the world in six days. Isn't it absurd that an all-powerful God has to rest on the seventh day?

Going back to my symbolic belief, the key (for me anyway) is that the entire known universe is the result of God. The idea of resting on the 7th day may not reflect God being exhausted (although creating an entire universe is probably a bit draining :) ) as much as a hint or suggestion that we mere mortals should rest one day a week to recharge our batteries and to reflect on God.

While there may be those who feel a need to correct my beliefs, I hope the focus is on your questions and presenting their understandings.

Sincerely,

OldChurchGuy
 
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#1 No
Mat 22:32 I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob? God is not the God of the dead, but of the living.
Eph 4:8 Wherefore he saith, When he ascended up on high, he led captivity captive, and gave gifts unto men.



#2 That would be assuming that the living Son of God is unable to reach them and that God is unfair.
Luk 19:10 For the Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost.
Luk 12:48 But he that knew not, and did commit things worthy of stripes, shall be beaten with few stripes. For unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall be much required: and to whom men have committed much, of him they will ask the more.


#3 He could have easily created everything in a moment. He set the pattern of a seven day week for us all and set a pattern in the week of resting one day and working six days.
 
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Q1: Jesus is the Savior for our own sin, as well as, the original sin of Adam. The Old Testament saints were saved by faith (Hebrews 11) just like we are saved by faith. They looked forward to the cross, while we look back to it.

Q2: I believe that every person will have an opportunity to repent, and that God will not exclude anyone because he happened to be born at the place & time where the name of Jesus is not known.The Bible teaches that God is going to judge the world fairly and righteously (Acts 17:31). Even though we may not know how He is going to deal with these people specifically, we know His judgement is going to be fair.

Q3: LoL...God wasn't tired. His rest was a foreshadowing of the future Sabbath law (Exodus 20:11).
 
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Q1- People before Jesus came were saved by faith in a Saviour that would come.They showed that faith by sacrificing an animal.

Q2.-God looks at how much a person knows or could know.Someone who hasn't got the opportunities to know God that you do will be judged differently to you .

Q3-God rested not because He was tired (God doesn't get tired) but because He wanted give us a day that we could fellowship with Him.That first Sabbath was a day that God spent with Adam and Eve.He wants us to spend the 7th day Sabbath in fellowship with Him still .
It is a day exclusively for God .That is why the 4th commandment says 'remember'.
 
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1. Wrong, not everone is is going to hell i they where bprn before Jesus. Back before Jesus, people had to bring sacrafice for their sins(lambs, calfs, birds)but after Jesus, all we have to o is pray for forgivness, because God has made the ultimate sacrafince to clense this world of sins.
2. If you have not heard about Christ, but led a good life and did not worship idols, you go to heaven. but if you have heard about christ, but denied him, your going to hell. Simple.
3. Don't ask me, but maybe he did it because he felt like it. I never seen God, but I bet he is awsome.:) Hope that settles all of your questions so far about Christianaty.
 
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During Jesus' life on earth, he said this --

Joh 3:13
No one has ascended into heaven, but He who descended from heaven: the Son of Man. (Angels too)

1 Thessalonians 4:13-18
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I Peter 4:5, 6

But they will give account to Him who is ready to judge the living and the dead.For the gospel has for this purpose been preached even to those who are dead, that though they are judged in the flesh as men, they may live in the spirit according to the will of God.
 
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Question #1: Correct me if I'm wrong, but Jesus is considered a savior from Adam's sin. Does that mean everyone that was born before Jesus is going to hell?
I think "believing in Jesus" criteria only applies to people after Jesus' coming. God must have a different method for saving those before Jesus' coming. (I am talking about Gentiles, because Jews were saved by believing in the future coming of the Messaih, which is Jesus).

Perhaps those other people will be judged based on the natural law of right and wrong.

ROM 2:14 (Indeed, when Gentiles, who do not have the law, do by nature things required by the law, they are a law for themselves, even though they do not have the law,15 since they show that the requirements of the law are written on their hearts, their consciences also bearing witness, and their thoughts now accusing, now even defending them.)16 This will take place on the day when God will judge men's secrets through Jesus Christ, as my gospel declares.

OR perhaps Jesus preached to all of them:

1PE 3:18 For Christ died for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you to God. He was put to death in the body but made alive by the Spirit,19 through whom also he went and preached to the spirits in prison 20 who disobeyed long ago when God waited patiently in the days of Noah while the ark was being built.

We are not sure. But we are not supposed to worry about that either. Our time is now. The time of everyone to believe in Jesus.

Question #2:Everyone that isn't Christian is going to hell. Isn't this unfair for someone who was born in a non-Christian home and was never taught about Christianity?

God can reach anybody He wants to. He will make sure they are called (hear the message).

ROM 8:30 And those he predestined, he also called; those he called, he also justified; those he justified, he also glorified.

MAR 10:26 The disciples were even more amazed, and said to each other, "Who then can be saved?"
27 Jesus looked at them and said, "With man this is impossible, but not with God; all things are possible with God."


Question #3:God created the world in six days. Isn't it absurd that an all-powerful God has to rest on the seventh day?

I think God did it in order to promise something (like a rainbow is a promise of "no more flood"). I think seventh day rest is a promise of future salvation.
HEB 4:1 Therefore, since the promise of entering his rest still stands, let us be careful that none of you be found to have fallen short of it. - I believe this is talking about salvation and getting saved - "entering his rest".

After death, we rest. We don't have to suffer or struggle anymore. REV 14:13 Then I heard a voice from heaven say, "Write: Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on." "Yes," says the Spirit, "they will rest from their labor, for their deeds will follow them."
 
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