OT vs NT Righteousness

I am saying that as soon as Adam disobeyed and sin entered into our life the Lord gave us one way for salvation, it was the way then and it is the way now. That way is only through what Christ did to pay for our sins. In eternal time this was the way of salvation before Bethlehem, the sacrificial system was used as a symbol of Christ. People did not say that it is through Christ who was born in Bethlehem, they said I will do what God told me to do. It was based of faith, as our salvation is based on today. In people time,
Christ was not born yet but in God's eternal time it is Christ who always was the key to our salvation. It did not work as well, it was fulfilled when Christ was crucified.

What if they did not walk in all the commands and ordinances of the law?

Justified by faith in what?

The only way to salvation is by believing the gospel of Jesus Christ. No one in the OT believed this because it was hid, therefore they were not saved but kept safe in Abraham’s bosom through faith and obedience.

It is pure ignorance to say that no one in the O.T. knew of or looked forward to Christ or the cross..........JESUS said clearly the SCRIPTURES testified of HIM and the O.T. was FULL of pictures, types and shadows and in the VOLUME of the book it is written of me.....EVEN ABRAHAM told the rich MAN that his 5 brothers could HEAR the truth to keep them from coming to that place where he was being tortured.....

Genesis 3:15
Abel's offering pointed to blood in faith and firstling of the FLOCK
Passover
Brazen Serpent
Sacrifices of the O.T. and priesthood
Scape GOAT
Job knew of and understood his REDEEMER and the resurrection
David and the PSALMS
Isaiah 53

etc.......

FALSE............David speaks of his salvation in presence TENSE and JOB knew of his redeemer and the resurrection

Isn't this being saved? They are safe, protected, saved.

NIV1984 1 Peter 1:10-12
Concerning this salvation, the prophets, who spoke of the grace that was to come to you, searched intently and with the greatest care, trying to find out the time and circumstances to which the Spirit of Christ in them was pointing when he predicted the sufferings of Christ and the glories that would follow. It was revealed to them that they were not serving themselves but you, when they spoke of the things that have now been told you by those who have preached the gospel to you by the Holy Spirit sent from heaven. Even angels long to look into these things.

Well, my salvation puts me present with the Lord. The blood of Jesus was applied to them through their obedience.

Yep, great passage showing that those OT prophets prophesied of things to come with no understanding. Same for the angels.

They were saved by grace through faith, just like the NT saints.
Faith in God and the coming Lamb of God. Ever since Abel, the OT saints understood the necessity of a sinless substitute shedding its blood for their sins. Until Christ sins were covered. At the cross sin was taken away (John 1:29)

By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts: and by it he being dead yet speaketh. (Heb 11:4)

I don't think you will find one scripture that tells you this. Salvation has never been, according to scripture, by obedience but by faith.

Could you name a human who has lived that was so perfect, so without sin, that they have earned salvation? Yet we are told there were saints who lived. They certainly didn't earn it, look at David, beloved by the Lord. What!! a sinner he was.

If they didn’t follow the law, their sins were not forgiven and they were cut off from God’s people. We simply must believe, no works attached.

Abel was righteous by doing not merely believing like you and I. Through his offering he obtained witness that he was righteous.

None, they were not saved like you and I. The best they could do is earn their way to Abraham’s bosom through obedience to God’s word whatever God had given them. Most, through the law.

Ephesians 3:2 2 If ye have heard of the dispensation of the grace of God which is given me to you-ward:

Romans 6:14 For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace. 15 What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid.

John 1:17 For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.

I realized that many of the participants in this forum tend to subscribe to covenant theology. They tend to find it difficult to accept that there were different ways to show faith in God, depending on the dispensation.

To them, there is only one way to God, putting your faith in Jesus Christ. They will continue to believe that, even when you point out to them that people in the OT were very unlikely to understand that God will come down as a human to die for their sins.

I don't believe this is correct. Would you give us scripture that backs up your idea that God forgave only through sinlessness.

Abel had faith in what God told them, that blood was required for forgiveness. It was not because he obeyed that he had salvation, but because he had faith in what God told them.

Does faith require obedience?

I like this question, because it is too small a point to fully encompass the truth.

God says the way of life he designed in founded on love, and reflects His heart and ways.
Love works out helping others and taking care of all that is before one.

To agree with God, and to know Him is to know this truth about life, love and eternity.
So if one has faith in Him, you will obey out of joy and praise, knowing this is the way of life
and eternity.

Unfortunately if one asks the question "Does faith require obedience" the questioner does
not know God is they require an answer. Faith is obedience, like life is eating food, breathing,
sleeping, working. One would not ask to live do we need to eat, breath, sleep, work, because
without these things we would be dead.

The law have alwayes been the ten commandments.
Adams covernant was the ten commandments, Enoch keept them and so did Noah thats why they were saved.
Abrahams covernant was the ten commandments and so was Moses covernant. And Yahooshas (jesus) covernat was the ten commandments.

And theyb are bining even today.

john146, you say that no person was saved before the cross and that OT people were saved through obedience to the law? Has it came to mind that the OT reached much further back than the law of Moses? And it sounds like you might think that everyone who ever lived before the cross is doomed to hell? Do you think that people such as David, Moses, Samuel, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Noah and the list could go on and on are in hell right now? They didn't have Jesus? They didn't know about the cross? God is love and always gives a way of choice in which we (and the OT people) can choose him with faith, and that faith is what brings about salvation, it has never been about how well a person could keep the law.