"So, if after God's redemptive work is fully accomplished and fully completed and fully finished, all we all get is a SHOT at salvation, what did people have before His work was finished?
That's right, a shot at it, the same thing Adam and Eve had. The OT saints, except in a couple of instances, went to "the place of the dead" or hades upon their deaths. This is why the icon the of the Resurrection shows Christ releasing the OT righteous dead upon his Resurrection.
What changed is that by the Incarnation, we were restored to the possibility of fulfilling our created purpose lost at the Fall.
OK, that answers the question I just asked Kosta in 3489. Assuming that the idea of hades is not in the Bible, is this an Apostolic teaching? I'm sure many people equate hades and hell. I admit I don't know the difference.