So...are you saying those who died before He came are doomed or are you supporting the ‘everybody who is “good” eventually makes it to Heaven’ theory?
“So...are you saying those who died before He came are doomed or are you supporting the ‘everybody who is “good” eventually makes it to Heaven’ theory?”
One does not need to go into “spirit prison” to preach to the dead to save them. After all, the antediluvians could have repented and believed with Noah on the one true God. Just like any Gentile could have believed in the God of Abraham, and of Moses, and of Jacob, for “salvation is of the Jews” (John 4:22). Outside of the religion of Moses, up until the time of Christ, there was no salvation. None of the Pagans or atheists were ever justified in believing in their idols.
Rom 1:20-21 For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse: (21) Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.
And today, there is no salvation outside of Christ, and those who do not believe are still “without excuse.”