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c'mon Bill. How do you get this from that? Certainly not by exegesis. There
are so many missing details to the account in First Peter that its meaning
could be construed several ways--the medieval myth is just one possible way of
understanding First Peter. What is of significance here, in my opinion, is
that this is an illustration of the sort of scriptural text--vague and obscure
like the Melkizedek one--which gives rise to extra Biblical myths. Then again
isn't there is a fundamental difference between catholic and protestant
perspectives on extra biblical material?
--V. Kerry Inman
Quoting Bill East <[log in to unmask]>:
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> "Ms Brenda M. Cook" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> from the "Gospel" of Nicodemus this is the earliest known exposition of this
> myth which tells of the triumphal descent into Hell of Christ immediately
> following the Crucifixion, to release the souls of the righteous from Adam
> to John the Baptist, who had died before the Atonement was achieved.
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> Not forgetting of course 1 Peter 3:19 ff.: "In the body he was put to death,
> in the spirit he was raised to life, and in the the spirit, he went to preach
> to the spirits in prison... And because he is their judge too, the dead had
> to be told the Good News as well, so that though, in their life on earth,
> they had been through the judgement that comes to all humanity, they might
> come to God's life in the spirit."
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