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Gloria Mundi
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Posted: Fri Feb 1st, 2008 03:26 pm |
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We read in the Apostles' Creed that Christ was crucified , died and was *buried* and he decended into Hell . And on the third day rose again.
1. For what purpose did Christ decend into Hell for three days ??
2. He was not buried, he was layed in a tomb.
Last edited on Fri Feb 1st, 2008 03:28 pm by Gloria Mundi
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Posted: Fri Feb 1st, 2008 04:18 pm |
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The link below should take ou to the online Catechism of the Catholic Church. This ection explains your question. There can also check out the footnotes that appear in the text at the bottome of the seciton.
http://www.vatican.va/archive/catechism/p122a5p1.htm#p1
Regarding being buried vs being placed in the tomb - is synonymous with experienceing the death of the body. Please read the CCC section at the link below:
http://www.vatican.va/archive/catechism/p122a4p3.htm
I hope that this helps.
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Posted: Fri Feb 1st, 2008 05:35 pm |
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Gloria Mundi wrote: 1. For what purpose did Christ decend into Hell for three days ??
It's important to understand the meaning of "hell". It does not indicate the place of eternal damnation we use the term to mean today. That place was called Gehenna. "Hell" in this case refers to the abode of the dead, the realm where the righteous who had died were waiting for the Messiah to open the gates of heaven. More modern translations will often read "he descended to the dead".
There's a good explanation of the Hebrew concept of the seven lays of heaven and hell in this article on the main CHN web site.
2. He was not buried, he was layed in a tomb.
This was the Jewish form of burial in that region. In my part of the country, people are typically buried above ground in a vault due to the high water table, and the probability of the coffins popping out of the ground at periods of high water. Only cemetaries on exceptionally high land (like, four or five feet above sea level) will permit in-ground burial, and then the coffin is often topped with a concrete cap so it will stay in the ground. After Hurricane Rita in 2005, thousands of coffins were sent floating away throughout southwest Louisiana, and many have never been identified. Thankfully, my parents' grave was capped and sealed, and they remained buried in spite of the 14-foot flood waters that covered the cemetary.
Remember the heresies that these statements were meant to address. Jesus truly died, was buried, and rose. He did not fake his death, he was not spirited away to reappear later as though he had been resurrected. The apostles didn't steal his body from the grave so they could pretend he rose. His death was necessary and purposeful. He stopped breathing like any other human and experienced a true and human end of life function. At his death, he spent three days in the "belly of the whale" to use the terminology of Jonah, before he arose under his own power in glory.
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Posted: Fri Feb 1st, 2008 07:10 pm |
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The Jews believed (and Jesus agrees by virtue of His story of Lazarus and the rich man in Luke 16) that Sheol / Hades had a divide between the righteous and the wicked. Christians believe that Jesus went and "rescued" these people after His death (see Eph. 4:8-10; 1 Pet 3:19-20). The reprobate in Hades eventually are sentenced to hell (Rev 20:13-15).
Here are two Protestant pages that talk about Hades in terms very similar to what Catholics believe:
http://www.minuteswithmessiah.com/question/hades.html
http://www.gotquestions.org/Old-Testament-believers.html
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Posted: Sun Feb 3rd, 2008 10:25 am |
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Thank you all for your help and links , it certainly has made things clearer for me. I am most grateful for your continued dedication and guidance on this forum.
God bless.
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