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To: kosta50; jo kus
Everyone believed in those days. I don't think there was a single account of an atheist. The righteous of the OT were chosen by God to do specific tasks, just as our Lord Jesus Christ chose His apostles, including +Paul.

EVERYONE believed in those days??? In what? Was one either an atheist or a believer?. I must not know what you mean. Did God go around in the OT and slay true believers? Was Judas a believer?

Christ specifically went to pull the rigtheous out of hell -- but one can ask if they were rigtheous, why were they in hell to begin with? And why were Adam and Eve among the righteous?

Those are good questions. I have to admit that before this thread I really knew nothing about this whole idea of Christ going down into hell. Is there a difference between hell and purgatory? My vague understanding of purgatory is that it is not as bad as the classical "hell", and is where most saved people go for "refinement" before they are worthy of going to heaven. If they are different places, then I don't understand why icons of the faith like Peter and John the Baptist would go there instead of purgatory, or really, why not straight into heaven?

Yet, clearly, Job is not portrayed as someone who was anything but perfect in God's eyes.

Well, when you put it that way, I think everyone can agree. :)

5,178 posted on 04/27/2006 12:03:20 AM PDT by Forest Keeper
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To: Forest Keeper; jo kus
EVERYONE believed in those days??? In what?

Among Hebrews, everyone believed in the God Abraham (that is when the God's chosen people did not worship pagan gods on numerous occasions in their history).

The Jews of the OT beieved in the same God we believe, I would say.

5,189 posted on 04/27/2006 5:32:05 AM PDT by kosta50 (Eastern Orthodoxy is pure Christianity)
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