Our Fore-fathers Will All Go To Hell?

This argument featured  during a Sunday School in a church when the teacher said Jesus said nobody will enter the kingdom of god but through him.  One old man stood angrily and asked him(the teacher) if his fore father(the teacher) knew Christ before they died?  And that does it mean that an herbalist who did no evil  but feared God will go to hell also? please contribute your own idea.

you need to free your mind from that crap and delusion of a teaching :jesus said this jesus said that  stuff

jesus said a lot of delusional and psychotic stuffs 

Wetin be wuna?
What makes you think that you are rightly guided?

Defend???
Your coming to Nairaland shows that you can read and write very well. Therefore, I'd advice you to go to the Old Testament, read it and figure out all you need to know viz-a-viz my post. . 

That is my contribution to the topic in question. If it makes sense to you, good! Otherwise, it's also good. Feel free to address the question or shed more light on  different contributions based on your fate and understanding.

For once you make a statement that I can actually say is intelligent since you added that it is about what you think. Apparently not all persons see him as you do so why not move on ??

According to the Bible everyone who dies goes to hell. But what hell really means and represents to most people is a misconception. Hell is the English translation from the words haides and sheol. Those words mean the common grave. So therefore hell means the common grave. The thought of hell being a place of fiery torment comes the mistranslation of the work Gehenna into hell and the term geennan tou pyros hell fire. That is totally inaccurate.

Gehenna is a place a real place near Jerusalem it was also called the Valley of Hinnom it was basically outside the walls of Jerusalem. During the first century Gehenna was used as an incinerator for the filth of Jerusalem. Bodies of executed criminals considered not worthy of a burial tomb and dead animals were thrown into the fiery Gehenna. In the valley sulfur and brimstone were added to help things burn. Gehenna was more like a garbage dump that was smoldering all the time. The Bible and Jesus have made mention of Gehenna as a place where one would be consumed by fire if he was thrown there, but living people were NOT thrown in to the smoldering land. Gehenna was not a place of torment. Gehenna does not mean hell.

So the conception of a fiery place of torment is not based upon actual Bible teachings or accounts, but actually on the mistranslation of a word and the misunderstanding of a place during the first century.

I hope this helps answer the question!!

@Idinrete
Anyone who feels that way does not truly understand the meaning of the old testament or a lot of the Bible in general. And you confuse things that were done by IMPERFECT humans to be things acceptable to God. There is a difference; yes there are a lot of people that feel that since God can step in at any time that all such events should be stopped, but if you do further research and cross reference events of the old testament with records in the new testament you will see that God reveals his reason for why people suffer and there are currently wars and death throughout the world. You will also see what He plans to do to stop it and when the halt to badness will occur.

@Poster, sorry I think I did not fully answer your question.


God set up a method of headship if you will. For instance the head of every woman is a man and the head of man is Jesus, who is also the head of the congregation, and Jesus' head is God. Since sin entered into all of man through Adam and Eve the life God had planned for mankind was ruined to a point. Jehovah God intended for man to live forever in paradise like conditions, but this was lost to us because of sin. Because of His love and perfect justice Jehovah all the debt of a perfect human life to be paid. His own son Jesus Christ is the one who paid the debt. Since it is through Jesus that our debt was paid and we are able to regain everlasting life (when Jehovah and Jesus destroy this wicked system we live in now) it is also through Jesus that we need to go to approach Jehovah. So anyone who died before Jesus will not go to Heaven. Even John the Baptiser who is referred to in Matthew 11:11 as having no on raised up greater than him did not go to Heaven because he died before Jesus.

Anyone who passed away before Jesus will not go to Heaven but will be resurrected to earth when it is restored to its orginal condition. John 5: 28,29 Revelation 21:4

I enjoy everybody's idea dut Kattrina's is the most enjoying one.Well,Keep the flag flying

what do you mean?

Most  of  our  fore fathers will be accepted of God.The fact we need to know is that the judgement of God,though basically same, is based on the age or dispensation in which men live. 'Those who live before or without the Law will be judged without the law', says the Scriptures.Our fore fathers lived without the law(without the accurate  knowledge of His will as contained in the Scriptures).Those who lived during  the pre-mosaic era(the law had not  been given at this time)or those who lived without the law before Jesus came will be judged by their conscience. Roman 2:12-15 says

"For all who have sinned without the law will also perish without the law, and all  who have sinned under the law will be judged by the law. For it is not the hearers of the law who are righteous before God,but the doers of the law who will be justified. For when Gentiles(our fore-fathers inclusive),who do not have the law ,by nature do what the law requires,they are a law to themselves,even though they do not have the law.They show that the work of the law is written on their hearts,while their conscience also bears witness,and their conflicting thoughts accuse or even excuse them"
 
Many years after the Ascension of Christ, Paul the Apostle went to Athens and  preached  Christ before the philosophical Areopagus and he told them pointblank by the Spirit of God that "The times of ignorance (about the true God) God overlooked,but now He commands all people everywhere to repent, because He has fixed (appointed) a day on which He will judge the world in righteousness by a man whom He has appointed;and of this He has given assurance to all  (everybody in the world) by raising him from the dead, Act17:30-31."
God, in this dispensation  (these last days), reveals Himself  to the world through His Son, Jesus Christ. Hebrew 1:1-2 declares that "Long ago, at many times and in many ways, God spoke to our fathers( the Saints of old in the old covenant) by the Prophets, but in these last days He has spoken to us by His Son,whom He appointed the heir of all things, through whom also He created the world." If you accept the revelation of God to man in this adulaterous age by accepting and believing Christ, you will be accepted of God.Doing the will of God is more than being a committed and staunch member of a religious denomination. It is more than going to Church or any place of worship. Roman 14:17 asserts that 'the kingdom of God is not a matter of eating and drinking but of righteousness,and peace and joy in the Holy Ghost".                                                                                               

There is no hell.Hell does not exist.So the question of whether our forefathers will go to hell just because they were no bible-thumpers is completely without meaning.