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    Jesus Descended to Hell: A Historical, Scriptural, Modern, and Pastoral Treatment

    impeccable adjective. (ˌɪmˈpɛkəbəl) Without fault or error. That’s fine, but you’re putting yourself in the position of a teacher with this kind of post. No need. He’s just a guy, too.
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    Ask Sherman

    It deletes all comments from others, too? That seems like too powerful a command, if one is losing an argument, for instance.
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    Jesus Descended to Hell: A Historical, Scriptural, Modern, and Pastoral Treatment

    Here’s what the author said about creeds further down: “ Our creeds are a summarizing of the Christian mysteries of Salvation History and a profession of our faith which is passed onto each generation in human history so they can know for certain the basic Christian confession of faith and thus...
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    Jesus Descended to Hell: A Historical, Scriptural, Modern, and Pastoral Treatment

    You mean by burning people at the stake when they translated the Bible into common vernaculars?
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    Jesus Descended to Hell: A Historical, Scriptural, Modern, and Pastoral Treatment

    That’s pretty rich. You start a thread that someone disagrees with, and you won’t have a discussion about it, but you want to continue teaching. Who exactly are you accountable to? Or are you a primary authority on the truths of spiritual things? Does the Bible provide any truthful witness in...
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    Jesus Descended to Hell: A Historical, Scriptural, Modern, and Pastoral Treatment

    The problem, just like in the other recent thread (here), that must have spawned this one, is that you are telling a story without scriptural evidence. Scripture actually tells us that heaven is “up”. John 3:13 (KJV) And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven...
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    Jesus Descended to Hell: A Historical, Scriptural, Modern, and Pastoral Treatment

    How does one “descend to the lower, earthly regions”? Isn’t that by burial, similar to how David said in Psalms 139:15 My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, [and] curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth? Was David curiously wrought in hell? The article made...
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    Ask Sherman

    Wait. I think I figured it out. I have to go back to formatted text mode first, then hit the preview button.
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    Ask Sherman

    I used that button before, and it worked. But that was when the reply field was not bbcode mode. I think I even switched to bbcode mode in one of those replies. Now when I start a reply, it starts in bbcode mode, I can’t switch to formatted text mode, and the button to preview doesn’t do anything.
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    Ask Sherman

    Another request. When I switched to BB code edit mode, now I don’t have a preview option prior to posting. Is that available?
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    Appealing to the U.S. Supreme Court DBC will go after Buck v Bell too!

    This seems like something that ought to be done regularly by the court—to clean up old and poorly reasoned precedents. The problem will lie in cleaning up the old and well reasoned ones, which a left-leaning court will be wont to do.
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    Jesus Descended to Hell: A Historical, Scriptural, Modern, and Pastoral Treatment

    That was an interesting and informative article. It confirms my belief that 1. Jesus descent into hell is not in scripture, and 2. That doctrine was appended to the creed at a fairly late date, nor was it mentioned by the early church fathers. It certainly refutes your claim:
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    Death and How to Comfort the Family-Part 2

    The lady doth protest too much, methinks.
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    Death and How to Comfort the Family-Part 2

    It’s in the verse you quoted. 1 Peter 3:19-20 (KJV) 19 By which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison; 20 Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by...
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    Ask Sherman

    Fantastic! Thanks. Was that a site-wide change, or was it specific to me?
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    Ask Sherman

    Is there a multi-quote option, either for whole posts or for parts of posts? I’m on another zen-foro forum that has that, and it’s useful.
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    Hi Lon. Did you lose your other account? Derf
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    Death and How to Comfort the Family-Part 2

    If that’s the case, then Jesus only seems to have preached to those that died in the flood. What do you think He said to them? And What about all those Old Testament saints? Didn’t Jesus have anything to say to them? And you think they were dead???? The three apostles didn’t think that. They...
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    Death and How to Comfort the Family-Part 2

    I never went back to this to respond. Sorry about that. Did Jesus preach to the dead? That’s the most popular narrative these days. I’m just trying to determine if it’s an accurate narrative. Or is it more in keeping with other scripture that the dead can’t hear anything: Ecclesiastes 9:5...
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