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
Enoch was taken to Heaven without dying. Eliijah ascended without dying, in a chariot of fire. He was said to have raised the dead, and brought fire down from Heaven as well, and is supposed to return to Earth before The Apocolypse, as a harbinger of the Coming of Christ. To Enoch: Genesis 5:22-24. To Elijah: 2 Kings 2:11.
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.
There is no such thing as time in Heaven
never. heaven doesn't exist. If i remember right though the bible does say heaven will come down to earth. so according to the bible the answer is still never. But heaven coming down to earth will happen when Jesus returns and defeats sin/satan. this is not given a specific time, I think it says 'soon' somewhere in the Bible and people have been expecting his return to happen within their lifetime since he died. source: memory of intro to old testament at TWU and church