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  1. Apr 8, 2012 · The prophet Hosea foretold the descent of Christ into Hell in Hosea 13:14 by placing these words into the mouth of the Messiah: “O death, I will be thy death; O hell, I will be thy bite.” Zechariah foretells the redemption of those in the Limbo of the Fathers in Zech 9:11: “Thou also by the blood of Thy Testament hast sent forth Thy prisoners out of the pit.”

  2. Feb 8, 2024 · "The lower parts of the earth" is either the earth itself, referring to the Incarnation; or the burial or Hades, the place of the dead, referring to Christ's death and descent into hell (1 Peter 3:19). Only Christ, as God and Man, can fill all things, that is, reign over the unification and fulfillment of creation. Jesus' Descent to Hell in the ...

  3. The Harrowing of Hell was taught by theologians of the early church: St Melito of Sardis (died c. 180) in his Homily on the Passover and more explicitly in his Homily for Holy Saturday, Tertullian (A Treatise on the Soul, 55, though he himself disagrees with the idea), Hippolytus (Treatise on Christ and Anti-Christ), Origen (Against Celsus, 2:43), and, later, Ambrose (died 397) all wrote of ...

  4. 633 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. 479 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 ...

  5. Feb 10, 2020 · One recent form of Docetism (or semi-Docetism) is a denial or soft-pedaling of Christ’s male sexuality. “Christ became a human being, not a man,” one might hear. “The maleness of Jesus has no theological significance.”. Certain feminist theologians have long feared that giving weight to Jesus’s maleness “collapses the totality of ...

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  6. Apr 14, 2017 · John 19:30. In addition, the cry of Jesus, “It is finished” (John 19:30) strongly suggests that Christ’s suffering was finished at that moment and so was his alienation from the Father because of bearing our sin. This implies that he would not descend into hell, but would go at once into the Father’s presence. 3.

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  8. Dec 29, 2019 · The angel Gabriel, in the gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke + John, tells Joseph that when Mary's divine Christ-child is born, he is to be called "Jesus". Jesus's names "Christ" and "Messiah" are descriptive titles of Jesus's mission to rescue humans from a likely eternity in hell. More to come...

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