Do people born after the encarnation of Jesus have an unfair advantage?

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Although those early people may have been saved,they lacked the strength, purpose,consolation and the direction Jesus left to all of us that were born after him.
From our limited human point of view it would seem that Jesus could have been born at the dawn of human life, to guide all humankind equally .What are your thoughts about that?
 
Jesus did free all the righteous people who lived before His time on earth, He preached the Gospel to them and then led them to heaven. this happened on Black Saturday

it is unknown to man why God waited a long time (from our perspective) before sending His Son. we can only guess but we should trust in God that everything happened in the perfect time according to His perfect judgment
 
I do not know what do you mean by black Saturday,can you expand,and what proof can you offer of this having happened (the freeing of the righteous people that came before Jesus was born)
 
Although those early people may have been saved,they lacked the strength, purpose,consolation and the direction Jesus left to all of us that were born after him.
From our limited human point of view it would seem that Jesus could have been born at the dawn of human life, to guide all humankind equally .What are your thoughts about that?
God sent the people of the Old Testament many great prophets to seal His covenant. Through them, he provided much strength, purpose, and consolation in the promise of a messiah.
 
I do not know what do you mean by black Saturday,can you expand,and what proof can you offer of this having happened (the freeing of the righteous people that came before Jesus was born)
AIUI, by “Black Saturday” (this is the first time I’ve seen this term) they mean Holy Saturday, the day after Good Friday; the day our LORD spent dead. It seems that while HE lay dead, in HIS spiritual form HE went to recover the “saints” of the Abrahamic period (B.C.) to the Life Everlasting.

In response to the original question: no, we have no unfair advantage. Since HE has come and gone, we have to take HIM on faith, in the same way that those who lived before had to. We have no more proof than they did that eternal life lies ahead. They lived by faith, so do we.

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Although those early people may have been saved,they lacked the strength, purpose,consolation and the direction Jesus left to all of us that were born after him.
From our limited human point of view it would seem that Jesus could have been born at the dawn of human life, to guide all humankind equally .What are your thoughts about that?
I think we do have an unfair advantage not only in that Jesus preceded us, but that due to the printing press and Internet we now have access directly to His Word, 24/7, with computer speed search capability. (No more Strong’s.) So it is a combination of His living before us and technology capable of bringing us His legacy at lightning speed.

Sadly, I don’t think many experience the strength, purpose, consolation, and direction that Jesus left, because the great majority of people have no idea how to totally “let go” of themselves, as in Jesus telling us we must deny ourselves. His message still strikes people as very strange and complicated, even though technical it’s ALL about Love. Until they really become renewed in mind, they don’t experience the freedom and the fruit of the Spirit according to their potential.

So for most people these days, I’m not so sure a rule and duty-centered existence like in the past is really any worse off, especially if that was all of the expectations of most people those days.

Alan
 
I am of the opinion that much is expected from those who are given more. God is just and in modern speak is fair. More will be be expected from those of us who have more complete knowledge. 🙂
 
I am of the opinion that much is expected from those who are given more. God is just and in modern speak is fair. More will be be expected from those of us who have more complete knowledge. 🙂
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I do not know what do you mean by black Saturday,can you expand,and what proof can you offer of this having happened (the freeing of the righteous people that came before Jesus was born)
Black Saturday is the day between Good Friday (the day Jesus died on the cross) and Easter Sunday (the day Jesus rose from the dead)

this is the entire entry in the Catechism of the Catholic Church, which discusses this event when Jesus descended to the dead. every Catholic believes in this as it is part of the Creed

Paragraph 1. Christ Descended into Hell

632 The frequent New Testament affirmations that Jesus was “raised from the dead” presuppose that the crucified one sojourned in the realm of the dead prior to his resurrection.478 This was the first meaning given in the apostolic preaching to Christ’s descent into hell: that Jesus, like all men, experienced death and in his soul joined the others in the realm of the dead. But he descended there as Savior, proclaiming the Good News to the spirits imprisoned there.479

633 Scripture calls the abode of the dead, to which the dead Christ went down, “hell” - Sheol in Hebrew or Hades in Greek - because those who are there are deprived of the vision of God.480 Such is the case for all the dead, whether evil or righteous, while they await the Redeemer: which does not mean that their lot is identical, as Jesus shows through the parable of the poor man Lazarus who was received into “Abraham’s bosom”:481 "It is precisely these holy souls, who awaited their Savior in Abraham’s bosom, whom Christ the Lord delivered when he descended into hell."482 Jesus did not descend into hell to deliver the damned, nor to destroy the hell of damnation, but to free the just who had gone before him.483

634 "The gospel was preached even to the dead."484 The descent into hell brings the Gospel message of salvation to complete fulfillment. This is the last phase of Jesus’ messianic mission, a phase which is condensed in time but vast in its real significance: the spread of Christ’s redemptive work to all men of all times and all places, for all who are saved have been made sharers in the redemption.

635 Christ went down into the depths of death so that "the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear will live."485 Jesus, “the Author of life”, by dying destroyed "him who has the power of death, that is, the devil, and [delivered] all those who through fear of death were subject to lifelong bondage."486 Henceforth the risen Christ holds “the keys of Death and Hades”, so that "at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth."487
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Today a great silence reigns on earth, a great silence and a great stillness. A great silence because the King is asleep. The earth trembled and is still because God has fallen asleep in the flesh and he has raised up all who have slept ever since the world began. . . He has gone to search for Adam, our first father, as for a lost sheep. Greatly desiring to visit those who live in darkness and in the shadow of death, he has gone to free from sorrow Adam in his bonds and Eve, captive with him - He who is both their God and the son of Eve. . . "I am your God, who for your sake have become your son. . . I order you, O sleeper, to awake. I did not create you to be a prisoner in hell. Rise from the dead, for I am the life of the dead."488
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636 By the expression “He descended into hell”, the Apostles’ Creed confesses that Jesus did really die and through his death for us conquered death and the devil “who has the power of death” (Heb 2:14).

637 In his human soul united to his divine person, the dead Christ went down to the realm of the dead. He opened heaven’s gates for the just who had gone before him.
 
This reminds me of John 20:29…

"Jesus saith to him: Because thou hast seen me, Thomas, thou hast believed: blessed are they that have not seen, and have believed. " D.R.B.
 
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