Sounds easy right most people can say they believe,But do we really believe?
Something I've been asking myself was how all those civilizations before they knew about God were damned, punished,forgiven, if Jesus had not come to this planet, specifically People like the nordics in europe,or any other tribes such as the celts etc the same question for the amerindian tribes aztecs, mayans,or any other tribes that inhabited in America
They didn't know about Christianity the way is known in America until the conquerors arrived,the same Whit the European tribes they were colonized by the Roman empire n they accepted catholicism as their main religion right?
How was life before Christianity for them they have their own "concepts" cosmogony about hell heaven and sin. and it's now a mixture of their beliefs and Christianity.
How things worked for them before they know about Christianity and all the things involved around Christianity
It wasn't.
Believing in a belief, is not the same as believing in knowledge. Today we are expected or asked to believe in a belief. Before, specially when Jesus was still walking on earth, humans were expected to believe in the factual knowledge that was true, unchanged, fresh, detailed, non manipulated.
You wonder how was in the past, before christianity. Well, christianity as we know it today is rather new. It was invented by the Roman Empire under Emperor Constantine, 5th Century AD. Christianity existed already before, born during the life of Jesus, but it was considered more like a sect. A pagan belief. When this movement started growing, the empire tried to kill them, prosecute them, but they never succeeded. Eventually Constantine came up with the idea of confiscating all the documents, books, and modify this religion for the convenience of the Empire, making the Emperor the representative of God on Earth, and christianity the official religion of the state. All those who did not believe or question it, would be prosecuted by the sword. And that is how you had it deep embedded in all the rest to follow after.
Now, what about before. Well, before this Roman invention, it was never a belief. It was never a belief of a God. Rather, it was pure 100% knowledge of The Gods. All ancient civilizations, all around the world, no matter where you go, had the same knowledge of a Pantheon of ruling Gods who came to earth in antiquity and created us. In their image after their likeness to work for them. For hundreds of thousands of years they ruled the earth, until eventually the kingdom was passed from the heavens to earth, to mortal humans. At which point the slowly left, promising to some day return in glory and majesty. They left in presence, but they have always been monitoring the progression of the creation.
The story begun around 450,000 years ago. An ancient race in the galaxy called the Anunnaki, was look for gold. Massive amounts of gold. After coming across the Solar system and sending probes to earth, they discovered this planet was full of gold. They sent the first expeditions under the command of 2 beings. Enlil and Enki. Brothers, sons of the almighty Anu. Enlil was given the rule over the waters, while Enki was given the earth. But this 2 brothers were much different and were constantly fighting with each other for power.
This is a story of hundreds of thousands of years. It is difficult to focus yourself into perspective because of the massive amount of time, time that for us is inconceivable and hard to understand due to our lifespan which is at most around 120 years. These beings are immortal.
Many Anunnaki were brought here to work the mines digging gold. The atmospheric conditions such as levels of oxygen, air pressure, gravity, was killing them. They revolted, and that is when Enki came up with the idea of creating a worker. He took the primitive species of homo erectus, and mixed their DNA with it. 30% Anunnaki, 70% primate. And he created the homo sapiens, us. In their image, after their likeness. Multiple creations took place. The first one took place in southern Africa. This people were known to later civilizations as the black heads, because they were created black. Hundreds of thousands of years went by, with multiple kings (Gods) ruling the earth for thousands of years each, until the great flood. Only after the great flood, The Gods came down once again and passed the kingdom to humans for the first time, and that is when the first human civilizations were born such as the Sumerian, Babylonians, Egyptians, Akkadians, Hindus, Mayans, Aztecs, etc.
That is just a short version of the full story. How do we know all this? Well, the oldest known civilization known on earth was the Sumerian, where today is Southern Iraq. Ancient Mesopotamia. About 250 years ago a team of archeologists discovered in that area thousands of Sumerian clay tables in Sumerian cuneiform language. Nobody could translate them so they sat at the British museum for some 150 years. Until Sumerian was finally deciphered. From those clay tablets, perfectly preserved, written during the time when the Gods were still on earth walking along humans, is that we know all they knowledge they had in the past.
These clay tablets were not written by some fanatic inventing science fiction, they were written in a span of thousands of years by what it was know in antiquity as the scribe. The scribe was appointed by the God ruling the city, eventually the human king, specifically to write the daily experiences in the city, daily knowledge, daily news, or, depending of the instructions of the king, writing origins and history of the civilization.
For more information read on google "Sumerian king list", "Enuma Elish", "Atrahasis", and other books.
Complete translations were made by bible scholar Zecharia Sitchin, one of the first Sumerian translators, in his book series "The earth chronicles"