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Hi did people who came before Christ have the same results after judgement as Heaven or Hell because often it is mentioned in the Old Testament the phrase the World of the Dead giving the impression that life ended there...? |
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Answer by Richard Geraghty on 1/30/2014: | ||||||||
Dear Anon, The pagans before the coming of Christ had a sense of the One God and His Judgment in the
afterlife, as St. Paul says in his Epistle to the Romans Chapter 1, verses 18-28. This sense
was evident because the very existence of the world showed God's power and holiness. But
many darkened this sense by their sins, particularly of homosexuality and of creating idols to
worship. In the eyes of such sinners the dead were simply dead or only pale images of living
souls. In contrast the Jews clung more faithfully to the notion of judgment in the afterlife
because God revealed himself as Living God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Although the
great Patriarchs died, they were not dead. They lived in the bosom of God forever. Dr. Geraghty |
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