If everyone who believes in Christ goes to heaven, and everyone who doesn't goes to hell, what happened to the people who died before the birth of Christ?

Before Christ cut the New Covenant with us, there was the Old Covenant - the Law of Moses and Judaism. Before Christ, this was the way to God.

Before the Old Covenant, it seemed that people just came to God personally and worshipped and served him. At the end of the day, no matter which of the three methods a person was alive to be affected by, it was still a choice: God or no God.

So any who accepted God, as per the applicable covenant, would have been saved, and any who rejected him would have been condemned.

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What about people who had never even heard of this god, such as those on the American continent?
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by Flynn444 on October 18th, 2006
HQ 35:24 has the answer. It says "and there never was a people, without a warner having lived among them"
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by borasalama on September 16th, 2009
So if Islam teaches there are messengers of God all of the world does that mean they believe there are scriptures all over the world too?
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by John Cox will be back April 6th 2013 on March 4th, 2010
Islam does not teach that there ARE messengers of God all over the world, but that among every society there have been people who would warn society against injustice and wrongdoing, that all socities have received the call to God and that no society has been overlooked and left without guidance.

The HQ states that it (the HQ) is the scripture for all mankind. HQ 2:185 says that the HQ was sent down "as guidance for mankind, an explanation of (other scriptural) guidance and criterea (for judging between truth and falsehood)"

The HQ acknowledges that there have been other scriptures, but says that there are to be no more messengers. "Muhammad is not the father of any of your men, but (he is) a Messenger of God, and the Seal (final) of the Prophets: (trust) God (for He) has full knowledge of all things" HQ 33:40. That makes the HQ the Final Testament from God. This qualifies the HQ for the role well explained in this video by the Canadian scholar Gary Miller.
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by borasalama on March 5th, 2010
John I added a bit of clarification to my comment, but it has not been included above.

If you listen carefully to the talk you'll hear the speaker saying that Muslims are NOT enemies of the Bible. True of course, because such a position is ruled out by the HQ's ackowledgement of the earlier scriptures. The understanding of the Muslims on the Bible as we have it today is not that different to that of the learned Church leaders. The Muslims are only calling for the understanding of these Church leaders to be explained to the followers of the Churches in general and to the missionaries in particular.
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by borasalama on March 5th, 2010
Thanks. If I understand you correctly Muslims believe that there WERE other "warners" and likely other scriptures written outside the middle east, for instance Africa, Australia, and the Americas. They are valid but there is no point searching them out since the HQ is the ultimate book of scripture given for all the world.
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by John Cox will be back April 6th 2013 on March 6th, 2010
if we take the HQ to be the final scripture then it stands to reason that that's the case.
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by borasalama on March 6th, 2010

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