What Happened to the Non Jews Who Died Before Jesus Came?

[Bob Kelso]

If they all get to go to heaven, wouldn't it be best if no one tries to convert anyone? Wouldn't telling people about Jesus, according to your ideas, make them more likely to go to hell, whereas if they were ignorant, they might be saved?

“I read about an Eskimo hunter who asked the local missionary priest, ‘If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?’ ‘No,’ said the priest, ‘not if you did not know.’ ‘Then why,’ asked the Eskimo earnestly, ‘did you tell me?”
- Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek