Before Christ & The Bible

[Vox]

You've got the choice of believing or suffering endlessly in hellfire to put it simply. It's easier for a lot of folks to not risk being wrong and play along. Ever heard of Pascal's wager? It happens more often than you'd expect.

Only two? You make it sound so simple. Those are not the only options Vox.

Don't take my word for it. Just ask Christians. They'll give you 35,000 denominations of answers.

Quite true, I can only really recount what I know of the topic. I am aware there are groups like Quakers who take a more liberal "free love" approach, but in more traditional branches of christianity the emphasis is very much on "Obey the men in the dresses or else you're gonna have a bad time".

Any violation of his law (sinning) deserves eternal punishment, because all sins are personal slights against the source of all good.

Mother's a Christian. She believes god's love and god's desire for justice are both infinite.

As a consequence, they cancel each other out, and god ends up doing what he's been doing for last several thousand years... nothing.

Your mother is wise, then again I would say that considering I think that too.

I honestly haven't a clue what God gets up to, but I certainly find it hard to believe he's some sadistic psychopath, nor that he's entirely absent in the world. Bad stuff happens, but so much good too.

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So I had a dumb question.

What do modern Christians believe happened before the bible existed and before christ was born....I say this because, when I think of christianity, obviously it was a religion based on Christ, and there were so many religions existing before christianity.
So how do we expect other areas of the world to know of this christian god before his time, and before the time of his holy book?

I've honestly never heard this been brought up or talked about. Was just curious and wanted some others thoughts!

Actually modern Christians don't care what happened before Christ!

It all begins, and ends w/ Christ!

And the less you know, the better you will fare. As much as everyone here likes to point out "bad" Chrisitans.... it goes w/o saying they will be the first thrown in Gehenna!

Luke 12:48 "But the one who does not know and does things deserving punishment will be beaten with few blows. From everyone who has been given much, much will be demanded; and from the one who has been entrusted with much, much more will be asked."

And this is why I really struggle to understand Catholic traditionalists. If you think and question anything to do with the Church, yer doomed.

Edit: Bloody typos