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Christ Descended Into Hell by Ubenedictus(m): 2:33pm On Jan 18, 2013
The frequent New Testament affirmations that Jesus was "raised from the dead" presuppose that the crucified one sojourned in the realm of the dead prior to his resurrection. This was the first meaning given in the apostolic preaching to Christ's descent into hell: that Jesus, like all men, experienced death and in his soul joined the others in the realm of the dead. But he descended there as Savior, proclaiming the Good News to the spirits imprisoned there.

Scripture calls the abode of the dead, to which the dead Christ went down, "hell" — Sheol in Hebrew or Hades in Greek — because those who are there are deprived of the vision of God. Such is the case for all the dead, whether evil or righteous, while they await the Redeemer: which does not mean that their lot is identical, as Jesus shows through the parable of the poor man Lazarus who was received into "Abraham's bosom": "It is precisely these holy souls, who awaited their Savior in Abraham's bosom, whom Christ the Lord delivered when he descended into hell." Jesus did not descend into hell to deliver the damned, nor to destroy the hell of damnation, but to free the just who had gone before him.

"The gospel was preached even to the dead." The descent into hell brings the Gospel message of salvation to complete fulfilment. This is the last phase of Jesus' messianic mission, a phase which is condensed in time but vast in its real significance: the spread of Christ's redemptive work to all men of all times and all places, for all who are saved have been made sharers in the redemption.

Christ went down into the depths of death so that "the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear will live." Jesus, "the Author of life", by dying destroyed "him who has the power of death, that is, the devil, and [delivered] all those who through fear of death were subject to lifelong bondage." Henceforth the risen Christ holds "the keys of Death and Hades", so that "at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth."
Re: Christ Descended Into Hell by moredendisc: 5:02pm On Jan 18, 2013
Ubenedictus:

The frequent New Testament affirmations that Jesus was "raised from the dead" presuppose that the crucified one sojourned in the realm of the dead prior to his resurrection. This was the first meaning given in the apostolic preaching to Christ's descent into hell: that Jesus, like all men, experienced death and in his soul joined the others in the realm of the dead. But he descended there as Savior, proclaiming the Good News to the spirits imprisoned there.

Scripture calls the abode of the dead, to which the dead Christ went down, "hell" — Sheol in Hebrew or Hades in Greek — because those who are there are deprived of the vision of God. Such is the case for all the dead, whether evil or righteous, while they await the Redeemer: which does not mean that their lot is identical, as Jesus shows through the parable of the poor man Lazarus who was received into "Abraham's bosom": "It is precisely these holy souls, who awaited their Savior in Abraham's bosom, whom Christ the Lord delivered when he descended into hell." Jesus did not descend into hell to deliver the damned, nor to destroy the hell of damnation, but to free the just who had gone before him.

"The gospel was preached even to the dead." The descent into hell brings the Gospel message of salvation to complete fulfilment. This is the last phase of Jesus' messianic mission, a phase which is condensed in time but vast in its real significance: the spread of Christ's redemptive work to all men of all times and all places, for all who are saved have been made sharers in the redemption.

Christ went down into the depths of death so that "the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear will live." Jesus, "the Author of life", by dying destroyed "him who has the power of death, that is, the devil, and [delivered] all those who through fear of death were subject to lifelong bondage." Henceforth the risen Christ holds "the keys of Death and Hades", so that "at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth."

@Ubenedictus

You posted "hell" — Sheol in Hebrew or Hades in Greek

If "hell" — Sheol in Hebrew or Hades in Greek, then answers these questions please

What is the place, where the poor man Lazarus was, called?

What is the place, where the rich man was talking with father Abraham about the poor man Lazarus called?

What is and describe hell?

What is and describe Sheol or Hades? smiley
Re: Christ Descended Into Hell by Ubenedictus(m): 10:10am On Jan 20, 2013
moredendisc:

@Ubenedictus

You posted "hell" — Sheol in Hebrew or Hades in Greek

If "hell" — Sheol in Hebrew or Hades in Greek, then answers these questions please

What is the place, where the poor man Lazarus was, called?

What is the place, where the rich man was talking with father Abraham about the poor man Lazarus called?

What is and describe hell?

What is and describe Sheol or Hades? smiley
u are creating a false difference, lazarus and d richman were in 'hell in english' shoel and hades in hebrew and greek' just d way i explain above hell is used to denote d realm of d dead pls see d oda thread i just pasted an article thread.
Shoel, hades and hell refers to d abode of d dead during d time of Jesus. Both d good and d bad go there, d good to abraham's bosom and d bad to a part of regret that is hades, shoel or hell.

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