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This is generally explained as two different details of the same event being the emphisis of the record.
Both accounts tell of a suicide. One specifically mentions hanging, the other doesn't mention anything about cause of death but does mention his "falling". These can readily be reconciled through natural causes either by something going wrong in the ...
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The meaning is pretty obvious in context.
Ps 137 is a lament for Jerusalem after the Babylonians have invaded and destroyed it. Verses 7-9 make it explicit:
7 Remember, LORD, what the Edomites did
on the day Jerusalem fell.
“Tear it down,” they cried,
“tear it down to its foundations!”
8 Daughter Babylon, doomed to destruction,
...
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Jesus' body was in the tomb (Matthew 27:59ff; cp Mark 15, Luke 23, John 19).
Jesus' spirit was in Paradise (Luke 23:42ff) - else He could not have truthfully promised the thief crucified with Him that "today you will be with Me in Paradise". See also Luke 16:19-31.
Jesus paid our debt in completion while on the cross - while He absorbed the full wrath of ...
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Very little is said in the Bible of where Jesus was and what he was doing during the three days, but here's what we do know:
He promised the thief on the cross that they would be together in paradise after death. (Luke 23:39-42)
When Mary recognized him in the garden after his resurrection, he told her that he had not yet been to heaven. (John 20:15-17 ) ...
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Sacred Tradition would say yes, the recently reworded Nicene creed says,
He suffered death and was buried
We also say it was in:
accordance with the Scriptures
which means, there's some prophecy that says this had to happen which you can read in Psalm 22 or Isaiah 53 or Genesis 22
Death is the splitting of the body, but not splitting "The ...
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To understand this perspective, it is better to think of "death" as "a separation", rather than "a ceasing to exist". So, when you "die", your spirit is separated from your flesh, and from this world.
1) The second death is the ultimate separation of (the spirits of) sinners from the presence of God.
2) Indeed, (the spirits of) those who are "resurrected" ...
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This answer is in two parts. Part 1 comes from an Evangelical perspective and attempts to indirectly show that Abraham's Bosom no longer exists by arguing that it never existed to begin with. Part 2 tries to logically show how the definition of Abraham's Bosom is inconsistent with it remaining in existence after Christ's Resurrection.
Part 1: If it didn't ...
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Very often whether or not something is a sin lies entirely within the intent of the person committing the act. So, if drive into a neighbor's mailbox when you accidentally swerve off the road while trying to avoid hitting a toddler who just ran into the street, that is probably not sinful. On the other hand, if you purposefully drive into their mailbox, that ...
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The Athanasian Creed, which is accepted by most christian, (esp. catholic, orthodox, anglican, Lutheran, etc.) reads thus:
...He ascended into heaven, he sitteth on the right hand of the God the Father Almighty, from whence he will come to judge the quick and the dead. At whose coming all men will rise again with their bodies; And shall give account for ...
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(Here's the "tl/dr" summary: Article four of the Apostles' Creed says Jesus "descended into hell" between the time that he was buried and the time that he rose from the dead.)
That's a good question. I'm aware of no specific place in scripture that provides an extensive & thorough, "He was at [location] to accomplish [goal]"-type answer, although ...
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That death and "sleeping," are often conflated in Scripture is perhaps a useful metaphor here. Notice how, in 1 Corinthians 15, Paul likens those who have died to those who have "fallen asleep in Christ."
And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile; you are still in your sins. 18 Then those also who have fallen asleep in Christ are lost. 19 ...
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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:
19 By which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison;
This place that Jesus, while he was dead, went to preach to the spirits in prison, may be Hades or Paradise. ...
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The Orthodox Liturgy (paschal troparion) says about this time:
In the tomb with the body and in Hades with the soul, in Paradise with the thief and on the throne with the Father and the Spirit, wast Thou, O boundless Christ filling all things.
I don't know however how other traditions say about it.
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If mainstream Christianity did not believe ‘Option B – your new belief’ (I beleive it does) then it would logically have to change its view as that’s the Bible’s.
Examples:
We are confident, I say, and would prefer to be away from the body and at home with the Lord. (NIV 2 Corinthians 5:8).
And
Jesus answered him, "I tell you the truth, today you ...
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I'm not sure what the different traditions would have to say about "suicide by hunger strike," but I would imagine that, since it is, after all, volitional suicide, it would likely be regarded by many as simply a particular method to accomplish an end that many consider sinful. Whether or not suicide itself is sinful has been addressed in the following C.SE ...
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In Christianity, as in Judaism, death isn't "the end". It does not mean to cease to exist. Perhaps the verse that makes this most clear is 2 Corinthians 5:8 (KJV)
We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the
body, and to be present with the Lord
In death, it is only the physical body that dies. The spirit/soul continues to ...
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The views of Christians on this matter can basically be divided into two.
A key passage here is Romans 5:12-21, which says:
Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, and in this way death came to all people, because all sinned— To be sure, sin was in the world before the law was given, but sin is not charged ...
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Catholic teaching states that you must make a sincere effort to confess all mortal sins in the sacrament of confession. It is often encouraged that all grave sins be confessed as soon as possible, and certainly all mortal sins. However, if the sinner is unable to confess before death, the effortful intent to confess is taught to be valid, provided it is a ...
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God is eternal and inherently immortal. If we dismiss the incarnation in entirety, then we can also dismiss the idea of God being able to die. Therefore, it is because of the incarnation that God could (and did) die.
In this incarnation, the divine person of God the Son, the Word of God (Rev. 19:13), received humanity (human nature) upon himself (John ...
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I submit that the blood->payment mechanic you mention is a direct consequence of the nature of sin.
Penalty of Sin
Since before the Fall of man in Genesis chapter 3, the penalty of sin has been death.
Genesis 2:16-17 (ESV)
And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, "You may surely eat of every tree of the garden, but of the tree of the knowledge of ...
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As you note, the Bible supports the idea that the spirits of the righteous dead rest in their own place, called "Paradise," which is distinct from "Heaven," (the home of God,) until the resurrection and the final judgment. (Compare Luke 23:39-42 with John 20:15-17 or see my answer here for further detail on the subject.)
As for why that idea doesn't get ...
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I watched a compelling lecture by Edward Fudge, a Lawyer (of course he's interested in hell), and sometimes Minister, looking at the biblical and historical influences of popular theories of the "end of the wicked" (hell).
(It's one hour in length!)
He makes a very strong argument that the 'end of the wicked' is not an eternal and everlasting torment, and ...
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The ‘lake of fire’ is a final progression of the theological development of God’s judgment. The ‘lake of fire’ is a final ‘hell’ which is a New Testament description of the more generic realm of the dead previously called ‘Hades or Sheol’, in the Old Testament. The Greek Old Testament uses Hades ( ᾅδης ) for the Hebrew name Sheol ( שְׁאוֹל). To fully ...
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Luther brings up death quite a bit. He usually positive about it.
For example, Luther compares death to childbearing:
“When a woman is in travail she has sorrow; but when she has recovered, she no longer remembers the anguish, since a child is born by her into the world” [John 16:21]. So it is that in dying we must bear this anguish and know that a ...
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I have not encountered specific works dedicated to the subject, but certain authors seem to permeate everything they wrote with death in mind. The subject of death permeates in almost everything written by Jonathan Edwards and Martin Luther.
Of all the people I have encountered Jonathan Edwards made me think about my own death more than any other. I was in ...
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7 Remember, LORD, what the Edomites did on the day Jerusalem fell. “Tear it down,” they cried, “tear it down to its foundations!” 8 Daughter Babylon, doomed to destruction, happy is the one who repays you according to what you have done to us. 9 Happy is the one who seizes your infants and dashes them against the rocks.
In the entire psalm, the author ...
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The passage you link to is Isaiah 65:20:
Never again will there be in it an infant who lives but a few days, or an old man who does not live out his years; he who dies at a hundred will be thought a mere youth; he who fails to reach a hundred will be considered accursed.
Your assumption is that this is referring to Christians. However, we know that ...
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