[PatrickHenry]

Just so I understand you [Elsie] aright: was absolutely everyone, with no exception whatsoever, who was born and lived before the birth of the Christ, Jesus ben Joseph, therefore consigned to an everlasting torment?

Matthew 8:11
And I say unto you, That many shall come from the east and west, and shall sit down with Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, in the kingdom of heaven.

[Elsie]

Just so I understand you [Elsie] aright: was absolutely everyone, with no exception whatsoever, who was born and lived before the birth of the Christ, Jesus ben Joseph, therefore consigned to an everlasting torment?

 

NIV 1 Peter 3:18-22
18.  For 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,
 19.  through whom  also he went and preached to the spirits in prison
 20.  who disobeyed long ago when God waited patiently in the days of Noah while the ark was being built. ....

 

This may shed some light on your question.