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If God didn’t save anyone before Jesus then that would make him unjust. If the law didn’t save even temporarily then there was no point in it. Baptism replaces circumcision as a sign of the New Covenant while circumcision was of the Old Covenant. The law was sent to guide the Israelites for a specific time, the Old Testament specifically talks about keeping the law at many points.
It wouldn't make him unjust. He decended into Hades to free those shut up. Look at the icon of the resurrection. What is he doing? Pulling Adam and Eve out of Hades. There was pleanty of point to the old covenant, that wasn't salvation. Such as making the Jews ritually pure and showing the nature of sin and establishing the line for the Messiah.
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