Hi, Egan, everyone. Thanks so much for your support of the Logical Bible Study Ministry.

This is going to be another bonus episode where we take a look at some questions and try and provide some responses to those questions that have come in from you guys as the listeners.

Thank you so much for sending in your questions. I can't always get to all of them straight away, but I do try and respond to as many of them as possible.

And one of the main ways I do that is through these bonus episodes that we try and do occasionally.

So thank you again so much for your support of the ministry.

I'm so glad to hear from many of you about how God is using these episodes

to deepen your understanding of Scripture and to bring him into a deeper relationship with

him. So let's have a look at this question here from Georget. The sermon on the Mount says

the kingdom of heaven will begin with Jesus being on the earth right then. In other places, it's clear that the only way to enter the kingdom of heaven is through Jesus.

So what happens to people who lived and died before Jesus came or didn't hear from Jesus?

Now, I'll stop there.

The church actually has fairly clear teaching on this since the time of Vatican 2,

and you can find this in the catechism of the Catholic Church as well. It's quite a common question.

How can someone enter the kingdom of heaven if they don't have some sort of knowledge of

all relationship with Christ? And the way you frame it, Georgette, is a really interesting

way, which is Jesus himself is so

clear that he himself is the manifestation of the kingdom of heaven, as he says in the sermon on

the mount. So how does that work for people who don't know Jesus or lived and died before Jesus

came so they didn't have an opportunity to hear from Jesus.

The basic answer the church gives us is that it is possible for non-Christians to make it into heaven.

And the way that would work is God would judge people based on what they did know

and what they did with that knowledge.

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