Hell and the consequences of sin

     As with many other indispensable Christian claims—the Trinity,
for example—the doctrine of Christ’s descent into hell is a careful theologi
cal extrapolation from the biblical narratives. The single slender thread of  “evidence” is found in 1Peter 3:19-20 and 4:6,where we learn that the cru-
cified Christ“ went and  preached to the spirits in prison, who formerly did
not obey, when God’s patience waited in the day of Noah,” so that“ the
gospel was preached even to the dead.”
Almost from the beginning, the earliest Christians began to link these
claims with many other biblical affirmations.The Psalmist exults in the as-surance, for example, that“If I make my bed in Sheol, thou art there”
(139:8).So do we read in Matthew16:18 of Christ’s remarkable assurance
to Peter that his confession of faith (“Thou art the Christ”) will become the
foundation stone of the church, and that“ the gates of Hades shall not prevail against it. ”The Old Testament Sheol and the New Testament Hades were understood as the realm of the dead,not yet having been identified
with hell as a place of punishment. But sincebl death was the original penalty, man must bear the consequences of falling into sin. 

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