Revelations won wrote: ↑Sun Mar 31, 2024 10:00 am
To all respondents,
The following Scripture answers and clarifies misunderstandings regarding the state of our spirits while awaiting the resurrection:
1 Peter 3:
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:
It appears that you fail to understand what happens what happen at death. The scripture above clearly states that Christ like the Rest of us
Suffers the death of the body.
His spirit body did not suffer death, but was “quickened by the Spirit.” By which also he went and preached to the spirits in prison who were disobedient when they lived on the earth during the days of Noah. Yes their bodies of flesh were dead and they were still awaiting their day of resurrection.
This great event appears to have occurred between the time of Christ death and his resurrection.
You fail to understand what happens at death. A person is truly dead and is unconscious in his grave. Nothing leaves his body. The "spirit" is God's own Holy Spirit that is His active force that keeps a person alive. When the person dies God's spirit "goes back" to God because God is the Source of life.
Another version of the Bible says this about I Peter 3:18: "For Christ also died for sins once for all, the just for the unjust, so that he might bring us to God,
having been put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit." He died in his fleshly body, but was raised up three days later
as a spirit being. (
New American Standard Bible).
He went in this spirit body to speak to the spirits in prison, meaning the demons who disobeyed in Noah's day and have been relegated to "Tartarus," or, a debased spiritual condition. This happened
AFTER the three days that Jesus was dead. There is no indication that he went somewhere during the time that he was dead.