Subject: Any scriptural support? |
Bible Note: Hi Eadioman2, Thank you for this post. It gives us options to look at. Question #1 "'The latter (2) is preferred because of the temporal indications in v. 20a" Who once were disobedient...? I can see how this terminology would not refer to the angels because they cannot repent. Their future is sealed. Is # 2 actually saying that Jesus' spirit entered Noah's spirit and preached? This is more theologically challenging than Jesus Himself preaching to these...This verse does not say the Holy Spirit preached...it says Jesus' spirit. How does that read? '...but He Jesus was made alive in the spirit, in which He went and, through Noah, preached to the spirits in prison...' This, I believe, does violence to these verses. I submit a third... Christ preaches to the unrighteous humans, now dead and confined in hell, who lived in the days of Noah. Lazarus and the rich man proves there was a place where those unrighteous dead were held. This verse does not state, or even imply, that Christ spoke 'through Noah'. Jesus did not 'possess' anyone. Again notice what the verse actually says... ...In His human body He was put to death, but He was made alive in the spirit, IN WHICH (what which? made alive spirit) Jesus (Jesus' made alive spirit)went and preached to the spirits (souls) in prison (the abyss). The only reference to Noah was in description of the spirits. That's what I see God bless |