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15 hours ago3 points(+1/-0/+2Score on mirror)3 children
When Jesus died and went into Hades he carried all the righteous dead with Him to Heaven. Every good person from before Christ literally bowed at His feet and proclaimed Him Lord of Lords. It's all Christianity, all the way down.
9 hours ago1 point(+0/-0/+1Score on mirror)1 child
Jesus didn't ascend to heaven until after he was resurrected.
But your testimony is accurate despite this tiny error.
You can read about it in the Gospel of Nicodemus. The prophet Joseph F. Smith also saw it in vision: https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/138?lang=eng
Folks, the word "hell" in the Bible is not the realm of the damned. It is the realm of the dead AKA "HADES" AKA "SHEOL". EVERYONE goes to "hell" when they die, even Jesus. The protestants have this doctrine completely wrong. The Bible is perfectly clear on this matter.
> 18 For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit:
> 19 By which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison;
> 20 Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water.
Or in other words:
* Christ suffered for sins. Christ was just (a good person who had no sins) but suffered for the unjust (sinners).
* Christ did this so that we can be brought to God
* Even though we die, we will meet God in the spirit
* Christ preached to the spirits in prison AKA hell AKA hades (all the dead people)
* The people he preached to were disobedient when they were alive (sinners) and included those who were killed in Noah's flood.
And then this in 1 Peter 4:6 (KJV again):
> 6 For for this cause was the gospel preached also to them that are dead, that they might be judged according to men in the flesh, but live according to God in the spirit.
In other words:
* People who are dead have the gospel preached to them
* The gospel is preached to them so that they can be judged like people who are alive and hear the gospel and repent and receive Jesus
* They can't do that because they are dead, but they can follow God in the spirit.
11 hours ago-1 points(+0/-0/-1Score on mirror)1 child
The idea is that when Jesus descended into Hades he preached to those who were righteous in life and lived according to natural law, giving them grace in spite of their ignorance of Him from dying before His teachings and Resurrection.
But your testimony is accurate despite this tiny error.
You can read about it in the Gospel of Nicodemus. The prophet Joseph F. Smith also saw it in vision: https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/138?lang=eng
Folks, the word "hell" in the Bible is not the realm of the damned. It is the realm of the dead AKA "HADES" AKA "SHEOL". EVERYONE goes to "hell" when they die, even Jesus. The protestants have this doctrine completely wrong. The Bible is perfectly clear on this matter.
Or did He give those in hell a chance to redeem themselves by repenting and proclaiming faith in Him?
1 Peter 3:18-20: (KJV)
> 18 For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit:
> 19 By which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison;
> 20 Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water.
Or in other words:
* Christ suffered for sins. Christ was just (a good person who had no sins) but suffered for the unjust (sinners).
* Christ did this so that we can be brought to God
* Even though we die, we will meet God in the spirit
* Christ preached to the spirits in prison AKA hell AKA hades (all the dead people)
* The people he preached to were disobedient when they were alive (sinners) and included those who were killed in Noah's flood.
And then this in 1 Peter 4:6 (KJV again):
> 6 For for this cause was the gospel preached also to them that are dead, that they might be judged according to men in the flesh, but live according to God in the spirit.
In other words:
* People who are dead have the gospel preached to them
* The gospel is preached to them so that they can be judged like people who are alive and hear the gospel and repent and receive Jesus
* They can't do that because they are dead, but they can follow God in the spirit.