Salvation was attained by believing in the promised Messiah to come. Jonab: that apply only to the Jews. Out side of the Jewish community I don't think many people knew about the coming Messiah.
The word "Heaven" is mentioned 266 times in the Old Testament.
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No he cannot.
It clearly means all priests, bishops and god workers will not enter heaven. And at the same time ordinary people who lived good lives will enter heaven.
The truth is we do not actually know that dead people go to heaven, or if there even is a heaven. Some believe that followers of their particular faith go to heaven, while non-believers do not. please click to see another answer
It was written in the B.C time at difrent pages and people.
The New Testament does not oppress women. What ever you read in the New Testament and think is oppression of women may be the customs of the people of that time
Get a Strongs Exhaustive Concordance (they have them available on line), look up the term and count the references
In the Old Testament, people believed that following God's laws and commandments, offering sacrifices, and showing faith in God were ways to ensure a place in heaven. They believed in the concept of Sheol, a place where souls of the dead resided, and they hoped for a righteous and eternal afterlife in the presence of God.
He went to heaven. Heaven for people who died is for 10,000,000 years. Very long time indeed!
There is no such thing as time in Heaven
A:Acts 7:55 says that Stephen looked up into heaven and saw Jesus standing on the right hand of God. This reflects a time when people really believed heaven to be a physical place just above the earth. In commenting on whether this really happened, Raymond E. Brown (An Introduction to the New Testament) says that we can never verify the martyrdom or even existence of Stephen.