us.' 27"He answered, 'Then I beg you, father, send Lazarus to my father's house, 28for I have five brothers. Let him warn them, so that they will not also come to this place of torment.' When Jesus died for our sins these saints were carried to heaven. of course in another part of the Bible. also another way to see this is that when people go to hell they will have all the senses that we have now. we will feel pain, see it, and know it. All of those who died in a state of Grace (aka free from deadly/mortal sin) are with Mary, contained within GOD's shield of honor, which has guided and proctected since the fall of men through satin. Mary is the only one still free from original and all deadly sin and the only one who ever loved GOD, the way HE should have been. She is just careing for them, until GOD is freed-up from other important matters and is able to reclaim them. ANSWER: This really depends on what (if anything) you take to be the "true" bible. The Anglo-Saxons believed very strongly in the "Harrowing of Hell", which is the idea that, between his death and resurrection, Jesus descended into hell and freed the worthy people who had been born before his death (especially Old Testament characters). This idea was popular in the Middle Ages when people sought to reconcile great ideas (from, eg. Aristotle) with non-Christianity. The idea that Aristotle "would