Thy were not yet saved. Thy went to Abraham's Bosom, aka Paradise, when the died in order to wait upon the Lord for salvation.
Jesus went to heaven to be at the right hand of God, and the thief went to heaven with him.
And you still deny He is God incarnate; the uncreated Creator. John 1:1-14, for starters.
I know the only true God and Jesus Christ whom he has sent. I believe that Jesus is the son of God and the the father is God, just as it says in the Bible.
So His death for our sins means nothing?
Show me where it says that Jesus died on the cross to save us from our sins, and Jesus certainly didn't teach it. Jesus dying on the cross isn't the core teaching of gospel, love is.
What does John 3:16-18 mean to you?
John 3:16-18
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.
He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.
It says nothing here about believing in the cross, but believing in Jesus Christ the son of God, and through him we might be saved and have everlasting life.
By the way, it also says for God so loved the world that gave his only begotten son. Not that Jesus was God and that he came into the world.
Without His death there is no resurrection, you imbecile.
John the Baptist was raised within his own lifetime, before Jesus died! And as usual you have to resort to personal insults that's a shame really.
And the resurrection didn't happen because of the death of Jesus, but because he overcame Satan.
Actually Jesus didn't tell anyone about His death, directly, before the fact [except for the 12, who didn't understand]. Anyone else He told it was always in a parable like manner. And none of them understood it, either.
Jesus told no one that his death on the cross was to save them. I'm fact he told those that tried to kill him that they were doing the works of their father the devil! And he told Pilate that what they were doing to him was a sin, and that the pharasees did the greater sin by handing him over to be crucified!
Christ has overcome and you act as though He did not, which is why you see the world through the lens of not having overcome. You don't believe He did, so you don't see it. The truth shall set you free.
I never said once that Jesus didn't overcome, he most certainly did. And we have overcome too through him!
Are you no longer a slave to sin? Are you dead to sin? Are you free from sin? Are you a slave to righteousness?
My old life is dead and hidden in Christ, I'm a totally different person to what I was, and the holy spirit is helping me to turn from sin everyday. But I can still fall away if I put the lusts of my flesh before God.
And can one return to Christ and thereby salvation if they have fallen away?
Only God knows who can and who can't, only he knows the heart