?????? Cos whoever accept Christ death is saved what about ppl b4
They believed in what was called Abraham's Bosom and the Place of Torment. But some refered to it as hell in old testament.
Job 26:6 - Hell is naked before him, and destruction hath no covering. Psalm 16:10 - For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell; neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.
Proverbs 7:27- Her house is the way to hell, going down to the chambers of death.
2 Samuel 22:6 - The sorrows of hell compassed me about; the snares of death prevented me;
Job 11:8 - It is as high as heaven; what canst thou do? deeper than hell; what canst thou know?
Psalm 30:3 - O LORD, thou hast brought up my soul from the grave: thou hast kept me alive, that i should not go down to the pit.
Deut. 32:22 - For a fire is kindled in mine anger, and shall burn unto the lowest hell, and shall consume the earth with her increase, and set on fire the foundations of the mountains.
Back then they used to sacrifice animals for God to forgive them but that only covered their sins not cleansed them unlike the sacrifice of Jesus Christ who was the "perfect lamb". Therefore making them have to wait in the grave, pit, hell, heart of the earth, since sin is not permitted in heaven. The death of Christ was what liberated those in Abraham's bosom unto heaven since their sin that they contained was cleansed & those in torment either in hell if that wasn't hell already. That's why Jesus told the other man on the cross today you shall be with me in heaven.
Luke 16:19-31
Matthew 12:40 - For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale's belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.
Luke (23:42-43) - And he said unto Jesus, Lord, remember me when thou comest into thy kingdom. And Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto thee, Today shalt thou be with me in paradise.
2 Corinthians 5:21 - For he hath made him [to be] sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.