[Ken H]

Behold the Lamb of God who take away the sins of the world." Doesn't get much clearer than that, does it?

Ok, here's my answer: I think it means that everyone before 33 AD avoided Hell but that after 33 AD you had to be a Christian to stay out of Hell. Am I correct?

And I thought that from 33 AD on, the gift had to be accepted by free will in order to avoid Hell.

[jwalsh07]

1 Tim. 4:10, "For it is for this we labor and strive, because we have fixed our hope on the living God, who is the Savior of all men, especially of believers."

1 John 2:2, "and He Himself is the propitiation for our sins; and not for ours only, but also for those of the whole world."

1 John 4:14, "And we have beheld and bear witness that the Father has sent the Son to be the Savior of the world."


Are you correct?

[MEGoody]

Prior to the birth of Christ in Bethlehem some 2,000 years ago, people were saved just as they are now, by faith in God and by relying on His saving grace.

"Abraham believed God and it was accounted to him as righteousness."