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That sounds like universalism.
People need to be born again by the Holy Spirit, this did not happen until after Jesus.
no it's not universalism ... not saying everyone gets saved ... of course not.
So all of the OT prophets and people who lived before Jesus won't be in heaven? Adam & Eve won't be there? .... all those before Jesus? Baloney.
We have many stories about people in the Bible ... mostly centered around the Israelites ... who were typical of mankind in general .... ie disobedient (mankind don't change) .... however I have no doubt many people (multitudes) (not all) who were not written about will be in heaven ... looking forward to their stories and how the Lord made His presence known to them.
People are not saved because they were born before Jesus? Just their tuff luck they weren't born afterwards ... or lived in a geographical location that didn't have the gospel available to them? Is our Lord arbitrary and capricious? No He is not.
He looks at the heart .... He knows the heart .... from beginning to end of all people throughout all the ages ... past and yet to come.
Matthew 5:8
“Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.
Proverbs 21:2
Every way of a man is right in his own eyes, but the Lord weighs the heart.
For all who have sinned without the Law will also perish without the Law, and all who have sinned under the Law will be judged by the Law; for it is not the hearers of the Law who are just before God, but the doers of the Law will be justified.
For when Gentiles who do not have the Law do instinctively the things of the Law, these, not having the Law, are a law to themselves, in that they show the work of the Law written in their hearts, their conscience bearing witness and their thoughts alternately accusing or else defending them, on the day when, according to my gospel, God will judge the secrets of men through Christ Jesus (Romans 2:12-16).
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