But Jeff… you deliberately keep avoiding by deflection from what I’ve actully asked, continuously, i.e., for “scriptural” evidence to your contention THAT… “Hades still exists to punish the unbelieving wicked dead, but this punishment certainly does not pay any price toward their justification. All are already justified in Christ.” I am NOT challenging your notion that “that humanity is in Christ” so you can stop giving that answer.
And in reading your article this is the closest I came to finding anything remotely touching what you’ve said above…
Yet he has not saved all from Hades for their unbelief, or saved all from sin because of their disobedience, or saved all from loss for their carelessness, or saved all from harm for their prayerlessness.
Well this is all nice and dandy BUT apart from this assertion of yours that such is true there is given NO scriptural evidence to prove such is true. I have to therefore conclude Jeff that your position is in error scripturally speaking as you will not/cannot show otherwise.
Again… consider the logic: IF Christ Himself bore the penalty for SIN at Calvary (when we were yet enemies) how do you then find yet MORE sin that Jesus didn’t suffer for (apparently) that the justified in hades postmortem STILL has to suffer themselves to rectify (thus who really needs Jesus’ sacrifice) for themselves??? LIKE I said… your theory, and THAT’S all it’s proving to be, denudes the Cross of its power. (Can you NOT see the FAULT in your logic Jeff?)
Unbelieving humans beings, however, are punished in the temporal fires of Hades. 1 Corinthians 15:55 and numerous other Scripture warn of this punishment,…
And yet as Paul would say “what saith the Scripture…”
1Cor 15:55 “O Death, where is your sting?
[list][list]O Hades, where is your victory?”
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Again Jeff there seems to be daylight and lots of it between what you say the scripture says and what the Scriptures ACTUALLY say.