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NASB | Hebrews 11:2 For by it the men of old gained approval. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Hebrews 11:2 For by this [kind of] faith the men of old gained [divine] approval. |
Bible Question:
We belive in Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ is our Saviour. We understand, only through Him we have access to our God.God demonstrates His love towards us while we were yet sinners.This happened 2000 years before.Humen kind has near about 5000 years history. My doubt is people lived betwwen this period,how they get access to God.In that period also lot of people belived in God,and they were strong belivers also.In that period Jesus was not known to anyone.Only prophecy was existing. We understand that only through our Saviour we have access to God.Now also lot of people beliving in God without Jesus, like before Jesus enter in this world . New testement clearly says, Jesus is our saviour and without him no one has access to God and salvation comes thorough Him only.My question is belivers lived in Old testement period, how they get salvation. Thanks |
Bible Answer: Hi, William! You have come across one of the many mysteries of God: if we are saved by believing in Jesus what happens to those who died prior to His revelation (the incarnation of the Word)? Let me start by showing you a simple passage of the Holy Scripture: 1For I do not want you to be ignorant of the fact, brothers, that our forefathers were all under the cloud and that they all passed through the sea. 2They were all baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea. 3They all ate the same spiritual food 4and drank the same spiritual drink; for they drank from the spiritual rock that accompanied them, and that rock was Christ. (1 Corinthians 10:1-4) While the Hebrews were oblivious to His existence, Christ was among them, as the water of life! Salvation is of the Jews (Promised to them) by the incarnation, death, and resurrection of the Word (John 1:1-18)... it is not that we deserved to be saved but that God's Mercy was revealed through His Love... it pleased God that in Jesus all sin would be eradicated... the book of Hebrews explains that we have one High Priest, Jesus, who officiates in front of the Father in our behalf... that He died once and only once to rescue us from the wages of sin (Hebrews 9:27 thru 10:14)... though Christ died once to save all of mankind from sin, this in no way guarantees that we can choose to do as we please and still be saved... (John 3:14-21) Being the Perfect Sacrifice, not only did Jesus die for the sin of His contemporaries and His future disciples, but also for the sin of those who existed prior to His Incarnation, death and Resurrection: 18For 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, 19through whom also he went and preached to the spirits in prison 20who disobeyed long ago when God waited patiently in the days of Noah while the ark was being built. In it only a few people, eight in all, were saved through water, (1 Peter 3:18-20) (Read also 1 Peter 4:6; Romans 10:7; Ephesians 4:8-10) Again, Jesus preached in the Spirit to those that died in disobedience when God waited patiently... still, this does not guarantees that those who died prior to Jesus' Incarnation would listen and believe--only God knows who did or did not accept Salvation! God Bless! Angel |
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