Where did the gentiles go in the time of the old Testament?

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Where did the gentiles go in the time of the old testament go? Hell? Limbo?
 
In the time of the Old Testament the two places you could go after death were hell and limbo. The fact the gentiles were not the chosen people doesn’t mean they all were necessarily doomed to hell. God is just and this means that He would not let any gentiles who did all they could to serve Him perish for all eternity. I would think some gentiles made it to limbo along with righteous Jews, while evil Jews and gentiles ended up in hell.
 
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But what about the gentiles in Europe ect that had no idea about the jews? How could they possibly go? This also gos for the people that have had no contact with today Christianity.
 
When people are ignorant of the truth through no fault of their own but seek with all their hearts to do what is good, their ignorance can’t be imputed to them as sin. Generally this is referred to as invincible ignorance in Catholic theology. If a person has never heard of Jesus Christ but is striving to serve God and seek truth as he or she knows how to, God will not deny to that person the means necessary for salvation.
 
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Where did the gentiles go in the time of the old testament go? Hell? Limbo?
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12 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. 13 For it is not the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but the doers of the law who will be justified. 14 When Gentiles who have not the law do by nature what the law requires, they are a law to themselves, even though they do not have the law. 15 They show that what the law requires is written on their hearts, while their conscience also bears witness and their conflicting thoughts accuse or perhaps excuse them 16 on that day when, according to my gospel, God judges the secrets of men by Christ Jesus. Rom 2
 
I think everybody that has died. jew and gentile. those born before God gave the Commandments to Moses and after are awaiting final judgement. There were many, many gentiles who were good, kind caring people along with the Jewish people. I’m just as sure there were many who were loveless and., uncaring…The point is have they been judged for all eternity yet? ?? Is what we call hell, is that where people are for all eternity or do they take part in the final judgement?? Your question has one thinking, yet only God knows. God bless you.🦋🦋
 
If what I stated is incorrect, could you elaborate on how so?
 
According to the creed, on Saturday after his crucifixion Jesus descended to the dead. There, according to Catholic belief, Jesus preached to the just and brought them to heaven (no one had gone there before this). The place of the dead included both the just, good people in the sight of God, and sinners, who were suffering in hell. The creed used to say that Christ descended to hell. Now it says that Christ descended to the dead because the word hell was confusing in this case.

The quote below from the “Catechism of the Catholic Church” explains these things.
  1. 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. 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”: “It is precisely these holy souls, who awaited their Savior in Abraham’s bosom, whom Christ the Lord delivered when he descended into hell.” 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.
634 “The gospel was preached even to the dead.” The descent into hell brings the Gospel message of salvation to complete fulfillment…

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.”

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Among these people waiting for redemption were gentiles. The Old Testament itself portrays gentiles as holy people. Job was a gentile, also Ruth. God too sent Jonah to Babylon, a great gentile city, to call upon its people to repent, and they did in sackcloth and ashes.
 
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Hereiam said:
Wrong again
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I’m guessing you want to say “only Hades”…?
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In the time of the Old Testament the two places you could go after death were hell and limbo.
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“Limbo of the Fathers” (or “the bosom of Abraham”) might be a better way to put it, so that folks don’t think you’re talking about the theological conjecture of “Limbo” (of the infants)…
 
Gorgias said:
“Limbo of the Fathers” (or “the bosom of Abraham”) might be a better way to put it, so that folks don’t think you’re talking about the theological conjecture of “Limbo” (of the infants)…
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True. I left it at “limbo” because the context should have excluded the limbo of infants, but then again you never know the kinds of ideas some people might come up with…
 
thistle said:
Are you only capable of meaningless one-liners or would you care to explain why you are at odds with Church teaching?
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Why is every disagreement with you seen as being at odds with Church teaching?

Sheol, is what existed before the death and resurrection of our Lord, and both the just and unjust resided there until Jesus came to preach to those souls.
 
To start with, limbo is not, and never has been, actual Catholic teaching…

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To my understanding the Limbo of the Fathers is actual teaching, whereas the Limbo of Infants is just a theological opinion that gained popularity in the Middle Ages.
 
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No, and you are not going to a find any authoritative sources for that, either.

“Limbo” comes from “limbus”, Or “margin”. Quite literally, Augustine scrawled a note in the margin of his work asking, “what about unbaptized infants?”

This gave the term to the speculation, and itWas repeated at many times, but is not and never has been actual church teaching.

References to it it exist another documents, but it is never actually been taught.
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