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Did the Old Testament Believers have the opportunity at eternal life even before the Kingdom of God had come? Or did they just perish.?

Posted - September 25, 2019
Tag : Im glad to be a new Testament Believer fo sho

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  • 17614
    "The dust returns to the dust as it was, but the spirit returns to God who gave it." Ecclesiastes 12:7

      September 25, 2019 10:33 PM MDT
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  • 13071
    Excellent answer Thriftymaid. Its good to see you again. I missed you.
      September 26, 2019 6:57 AM MDT
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  • 17614
    Please don't disappear for so long again.  Short disappearances are acceptable.  :)  I missed you too! 
      September 26, 2019 7:38 PM MDT
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  • 13071
    I missed you too much to stay away forever. :D
      September 30, 2019 12:44 PM MDT
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  • 34432
    If they belived in God and believed in the coming of the Messiah it was counted as righteous for them. 
      September 26, 2019 12:51 PM MDT
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  • 46117
    What kind of GOD makes human beings to PERISH them?


    WHAT KIND OF MONSTER DO YOU KNEEL DOWN TO?
      September 26, 2019 7:39 PM MDT
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  • 7280
    A link to a one page statement of how Catholics think it went:

    https://www.vatican.va/archive/ccc_css/archive/catechism/p122a5p1.htm
      September 30, 2019 12:53 PM MDT
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  • 3719
    They very likely did believe in some form of spiritual after-life, even before they developed what became Judaism and Christianity.

    It is one of the common themes of most religions known, extant or extinct; and very likely of ones long-lost for millennia before Moses et al. It lessens the fear of death, and comforts the bereaved.

    Archaeological evidence suggests definite funerary rites and possible after-life promises, in cultures far older than the Hebrews', though obviously we cannot know what those far-ancient people actually believed.
      October 1, 2019 5:29 PM MDT
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