WindBelow

O.K. so Adam and eve created original sin, jesus died on the cross to rid the world of this, rose again for some reason, and now it's either worship me or suffer for eternity. I have all that, but I have a question where did all the souls go between eve taking the apple and jesus dying on the cross?

*edit- sorry I thought I was in the bible criticism section...move if need be.

WCH

His sacrifice was an atemporal one, applying to people both before and after. Of course, it's not exactly possible for someone living before him to believe in him, so I guess one Christian explanation could be that God knows whether they would have believed or not, given the chance.

NearNihil Experience

Hell.

Remember the part in the Bible where Jesus went to Hell for two(or three, depending on the Gospel) days before His resurrection?

He went to get Moses and the Righteous Unbelivers out of Hell.

Yes, they were in Hell.

No, they didn't know about Hell, or Heaven, when they died. And no, Hell wasn't even mentioned by Jews in the Bible as a place for humans until about the early or middle of the first century BCE.

Dean Anderson

In the Old Testament, all dead people went to Sheol, the underworld. Heaven is mentioned, but only as a physical place above the clouds, not as a spiritual realm.

The concept of Heaven and Hell as places for dead people to go was only invented later, around the time that Christianity was invented.

WindBelow

Alright thanks, are there any writings out there that explain Sheol in detail, because it sounds like all people went to the same place whether they were good or not. So unless if this Sheol was a mirror image on dante's sturcture of hell, it doesn't sound that bad of a place.

Amaleq13

You might be interested in reading this recent thread

CX

Even today, Judaic metaphysics focuses much more on the here and now than on any afterlife.