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1 | Is there a way out of hell? | 1 Pet 3:1 | StillLearning | 99385 | ||
A young (7th grader) man in my new members class asked the following question. "Once someone goes to hell, is there any way they can get out?" My answer was no, but my co-teacher said yes. She gave that answer because she believed there was a verse in the bible that said God/Jesus descended into hell to give those who died before Jesus'time an opportunity to accept Him as their Lord and Savior. If anyone can point me to that scripture in the bible I would appreciate it. | ||||||
2 | Is there a way out of hell? | 1 Pet 3:1 | Emmaus | 99386 | ||
StillLearning, Your "No" answer is correct when referring to hell as the place of final torment for the damned. Your friend is referring to 1 Peter 3:18-19, but the word there translated as "hell" actually in Greek refers to Hades or Sheol in Hebrew which is the abode of all the dead, both the rightoeus and the unrighteous before Christ. They existed in separate sections of that place as seen in the story of Lazarus and the rich man in Luke 16. Jesus released the righteous from their place in Hades which section is also referred to as "the Boosom of Abraham" but not those in the other section where the rich man found himself. So in this specific instance you can tell your co-teacher she is half right in this case but not after Jesus had relaesed the righteous. From then on no one gets out because the righteous after the death and resurrection go to heaven and the unrighteous to hell. The problem is one of trnaslation from Greek and Hebrew to English. It would be better translated the "abode of the dead" rather than "hell" in this case. "Jesus 'descended into the lower parts of the earth. He who descended is he who also ascended far above all the heavens.'[Eph 4:9-10 .] The Apostles' Creed confesses in the same article Christ's descent into hell and his Resurrection from the dead on the third day, because in his Passover it was precisely out of the depths of death that he made life spring forth: Christ, that Morning Star, who came back from the dead, and shed his peaceful light on all mankind, your Son who lives and reigns for ever and ever. Amen.[Roman Missal, Easter Vigil 18, Exsultet.]" "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.[Acts 3:15 ; Rom 8:11 ; 1 Cor 15:20 ; cf. Heb 13:20 .] 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 Saviour, proclaiming the Good News to the spirits imprisoned there.[Cf. 1 Pet 3:18-19 .]" "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.[Cf. Phil 2:10 ; Acts 2:24 ; Rev 1:18; Eph 4:9 ; Ps 6:6 ; Ps 88:11-13 .] 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':[Cf. Ps 89:49 ; 1 Sam 28:19 ; Ezek 32:17-32 ; Lk 16:22-26 .] 'It is precisely these holy souls, who awaited their Saviour in Abraham's bosom, whom Christ the Lord delivered when he descended into hell.'[Roman Catechism 1, 6, 3.] 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.[Cf. Council of Rome (745): DS 587; Benedict XII, Cum dudum (1341): DS 1011; Clement VI, Super quibusdam (1351): DS 1077; Council of Toledo IV (625): DS 485; Mt 27:52-53.]" "'The gospel was preached even to the dead.'[1 Pet 4:6 .] 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." To view the context, please visit http://www.christusrex.org/www1/CDHN/creed7.html#Hell Emmaus |
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