I love the Icon of the Resurrection. This was a great article. I did not know about the belief in different compartments but it does track with the Lazarus story. Thanks!
A utterly useless speculation as nobody really knows. None of the four canonical Gospels records Jesus ever saying where his body or spirit had been between his burial and his Resurrection.
It’s telling that you haven’t used a single verse to support anything (at least I didn’t see any) and have retold the same old traditions whether are valid or not—mostly not.
We need less waffle about tradition and more substantial truth based on evidence inspired by God not the (so-called) church fathers.
And what do you do then with 1st Peter 3:19, “in which he went and proclaimed to the spirits in prison,” and 1st Peter 4:6 where Jesus preached even to those who are dead. Or Paul in Ephesians when it says he descended into the lower regions. One thing to think the Orthodox or Catholic views are incorrect in their interpretation, but they are still using scripture to interpret the view, to call it mythology is a bit of a stretch.
In the first place, neither Paul nor the alleged author of the Petrine epistles ever met nor personally heard Jesus speak.
And secondly, therefore. their pronouncements on this matter are merely speculations on the (to them) mystery of where Jesus was between his death and his resurrection.
None of the four canonical Gospels addresses this mystery, as they surely would have done, had Jesus ever revealed this to the Disciples or the Gospels' authors.
I love the Icon of the Resurrection. This was a great article. I did not know about the belief in different compartments but it does track with the Lazarus story. Thanks!
Thanks Barbara!
awesome! Thanks Jordan
Thanks Sean!
That’ll make you shout! Excellent.
Thanks Cathy!
A utterly useless speculation as nobody really knows. None of the four canonical Gospels records Jesus ever saying where his body or spirit had been between his burial and his Resurrection.
It’s telling that you haven’t used a single verse to support anything (at least I didn’t see any) and have retold the same old traditions whether are valid or not—mostly not.
We need less waffle about tradition and more substantial truth based on evidence inspired by God not the (so-called) church fathers.
Pure mythology, based perhaps on wishful thinking.
There is nothing in the four canonical Gospels to indicate where Jesus was -- body, person, or spirit) between his burial and the Resurrection.
And what do you do then with 1st Peter 3:19, “in which he went and proclaimed to the spirits in prison,” and 1st Peter 4:6 where Jesus preached even to those who are dead. Or Paul in Ephesians when it says he descended into the lower regions. One thing to think the Orthodox or Catholic views are incorrect in their interpretation, but they are still using scripture to interpret the view, to call it mythology is a bit of a stretch.
In the first place, neither Paul nor the alleged author of the Petrine epistles ever met nor personally heard Jesus speak.
And secondly, therefore. their pronouncements on this matter are merely speculations on the (to them) mystery of where Jesus was between his death and his resurrection.
None of the four canonical Gospels addresses this mystery, as they surely would have done, had Jesus ever revealed this to the Disciples or the Gospels' authors.