Question: How were believers saved in the Old Testament?
Habakkuk 2:4 “The just shall live by faith”.
Old Testament people were saved by their simple trust in Almighty God!
Some, like Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Moses, King David etc. had a special relationship with the Holy Spirit of God, but most people trusted in God from their own experiences and observations of Creation; and God knew their hearts!
They like now, were born with “original sin”, but like Job 19:25; “knew that their Redeemer lives”!
A good summary of this is in Hebrews 11; where Paul gives an historic to New Testament view!
Some people refer to this as the “pre-Cross salvation”, as the Christ Jesus Salvation Gift is said to be pre. and post Calvary for people of “faith”.
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