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Posted by Raj (Member # 5224) on :

If Jesus is the only way to heaven, where the
people who were dead before Him and who were dead
without knowing Him will go?

For until the law sin was in the world, but sin is
not imputed when there is no law (Rom 5:13). The
period before the law which was given in the hands of
Moses, was the period of acting according to the
conscience whether good or bad. The people who were
belonging to that period would be saved, if they did
not transgress their conscience. For when Gentiles,
who do not have the law by nature do the things
contained in the law, these, although not having the
law are a law to themselves, who show the work of the
law written in their hearts, their conscience also
bearing witness, and between themselves their thoughts
accusing or else excusing them (Rom 2:14-15). But if
one’s conscience accuses him as guilty, and if he does
before knowing Christ, the salvation would be far from
him. Paul says, “I would not have known sin except
thro’ the law had said. ‘You shall not covet’. I was
alive once without the law, but when the commandment
came, sin revived and I died (Rom 7:7,9). One person
can’t be saved, if he has the knowledge, what is right
and wrong, and still his sins are not forgiven by the
blood of Jesus. Jesus said, “If I had not come and
spoken to them, they would have no sin; but now they
have no excuse for sin. If I had not done among them
the works, which no one else did, they would have no
sin. But now, they have seen and also hated both Me
and My Father (Jn 15:22,24). From the above verses,
we understand that God would not ask any thing from
whom He has not given any thing. He is a righteous
God. Jesus said, “He who did not know, yet committed
things worthy of stripes, shall be beaten with few.
For everyone whom much is given, from him much will be
required and to whom much has been committed of him
they will ask the more (Lk 12:48). Paul Says, “Truly
these times of ignorance God over looked, but now
commands all man every where to repent (Acts 17:30).
So, let us not be bothered about the dead and be alert
about the living. How unsearchable are His judgments!
(Rom 11:33). Jesus Christ has the full authority and
responsibility of judging the world in the last day
(Jn 5:22). But He never judged anyone when he was in
flesh (Jn 12:47). Similarly let us not judge anybody
henceforth.

Raj [BooHoo]

Posted by epouraniois (Member # 5187) on :

Col 3:11 says "Christ is all".

I read the whole of creation groans while awaiting the plan of God to come to the place where all is redeemed.

And although there is much concerning the plan of God which is outside the scope of the Bible, we can look at the furthermost set of understanding that God has provided for us and to our greater learning:

1Co 15:24 Then cometh the end, when he shall have delivered up the kingdom to God, even the Father; when he shall have put down all rule and all authority and power.
1Co 15:25 For he must reign, till he hath put all enemies under his feet.
1Co 15:26 The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death.
1Co 15:27 For he hath put all things under his feet. But when he saith all things are put under him, it is manifest that he is excepted, which did put all things under him.
1Co 15:28 And when all things shall be subdued unto him, then shall the Son also himself be subject unto him that put all things under him, that God may be all in all.