A Catechism for Girls and Boys

Part III: Questions about Salvation

80. Q. How were godly persons saved before the coming of Christ?
        A. They believed in the Saviour to come.  

(Click through to read scriptural proof.)

• John 8:56
  

  Your father Abraham rejoiced that he would see my day. He saw it and was glad.”

• Galatians 3:8-9
  

  And the Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the gospel beforehand to Abraham, saying, “In you shall all the nations be blessed.” So then, those who are of faith are blessed along with Abraham, the man of faith.

• 1 Corinthians 10:1-4
  

  For I do not want you to be unaware, brothers, that our fathers were all under the cloud, and all passed through the sea, and all were baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea, and all ate the same spiritual food, and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank from the spiritual Rock that followed them, and the Rock was Christ.

• Hebrews 9:15
  

  Therefore he is the mediator of a new covenant, so that those who are called may receive the promised eternal inheritance, since a death has occurred that redeems them from the transgressions committed under the first covenant.

• Hebrews 11:13
  

  These all died in faith, not having received the things promised, but having seen them and greeted them from afar, and having acknowledged that they were strangers and exiles on the earth.

Scripture quoted from the English Standard Version.

Taken from A Catechism for Girls and Boys found here.

Previously posted questions and answers.