u/TheeCurato0r

My pastor just preached a Mother’s Day message in which he said the line from the apostles creed, “And he decended into Hell”; was not scruiptural.

He then proceeded to twist 1 Peter 3:19 and the surrounding verses. Ignoring the countless other verses that confirm this tradition.

I’m lost for disbelief here. I’ve often admired Rome but heavily disagreed with them in the past. But man…. I might reconsider that now.

I’m a big Yoon Suin fan, and now I’m a big DCC fan after playing it for the first time tonight.

I was planning to run Yoon Suin in the future with OSE. But now I’m curious what considerations I should make if I run the game using DCC.

I saw Evangelicals freaking out about Mel Gibson’s new movie coming out, in which the Harrowing of Hell is featured.

I’m incredibly annoyed that so many “Protestant Christians” are so ignorant of the historic faith that they reject a core tenet of the Apostles' Creed, bordering on heresy.

Just in case this becomes a bigger talking point in your circles, here is a reminder of why the Descent is a necessary part of our theology.

The Scriptural Basis:
1 Peter 3:18-20: "...being put to death in the flesh but made alive in the spirit, in which he went and proclaimed to the spirits in prison..." (ESV).

Ephesians 4:9: "(In saying, 'He ascended,' what does it mean but that he had also descended into the lower parts of the earth?)".

Acts 2:27-31: "For you will not abandon my soul to Hades, or let your Holy One see corruption." Peter interprets this Psalm to mean Christ was not left in the realm of the dead.

1 Peter 4:6: "For this is why the gospel was preached even to those who are dead...".

Romans 10:7: "Or 'Who will descend into the abyss?' (that is, to bring Christ up from the dead)"

The Lutheran Heritage:
We don’t just believe this because it's "tradition"; we believe it because it’s found in Article IX of the Formula of Concord (Solid Declaration) which explicitly affirms the descent.

Scholars like Henry Jacobs and Johann Gerhard pointed out that Christ descended into hell to redeem those who died before being bound by the new covenant.

This would be individuals like Noah, Abraham, Isaac.

Additionally, John Aepinus a 16th century Lutheran superintendent from Hamburg. Suggested that Christ also preached to those who never heard the good news while living.

This would be the tribes lost in the Amazon. And in my honest opposition is also the greatest rebuttal against the claim that God is unloving because he Damned all those who never heard the Gosple, like for example, everyone living in the Americas before (at the earliest, but probably later when Columbus arrived) 1000 AD.

So if Mel Gibson’s new movie ever comes up or the Harrowing of Hell ever comes up. Hopefully you are now more informed.