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Lions and tigers and Barrs, oh my!
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They weren't, until Jesus came along. The ones who lived by faith were justified by their faith. They had sins and so do we. Jesus cleared them all up in one shot, both old and new testament. The letter of the law was satisfied when He paid the penalty for all of our sins.
Basically yeah. The bible puts it as sleeping until the time came.
1Pe 3:18 For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit:
1Pe 3:19 By which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison;
1Pe 3:20 Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water.
1Pe 3:21 The like figure whereunto even baptism doth also now save us (not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God,) by the resurrection of Jesus Christ:
1Pe 3:22 Who is gone into heaven, and is on the right hand of God; angels and authorities and powers being made subject unto him.
I think it sort of depended on whether it was before Christ or not. After He arose, I think people now go to heaven if they are covered by the blood of the lamb and will avoid the second death.