Jesus in Hell - Where do I read about it?

[H3LL]

I've caught several posts here about Jesus kicking the doors down in Hell and setting up shop himself.

A quick google didn't help much but I saw a few mentions of Jesus popping in and out of hell, visiting the dead and inviting them to heaven (Psalms, Peter? No chapter and verse)

Granted, I tend to skim a bit quickly through some threads, but I could not see the biblical reference mentioned.

Would someone point me in the right direction for the appropriate texts.

Thanks.

 

[Darat]

A lot of people interpret these verses as Jesus visiting the dead in hell.

Peter Chapter 3:


18 For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit:

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 water.

 

[Z]

Remember, for a moment, that 'hell' simply meant 'place of the dead' - ALL souls were there, it seems, as was 'paradise'. Jesus died, descended into hell, and took charge, relocating Paradise - some say. Ref: Acts 3:15; Rom 8:11; I Cor 15:20; cf. Heb 13:20

This Website seems to have much more to say about Jesus' trip to the Netherworld.

Some of the so-called 'Lost Books' are supposed to take the story more in-depth; I've had several modern 'Gnostics' tell me the story rather detailed and in-depth, quoting passages from 'the Deep Books of the Bible' that 'Rome doesn't want you to know about'. Lots of paranoia among them, and very few references on sources.

 

[H3LL]

Thanks zaayrdragon and Darat, just what I'm looking for.

Those 'lost Books' sound fascinating. I have a quest.

 

[phildonnia]

Some Calvinists believe that Jesus did not "set up shop" in Hell, but was there to serve the sentence for mankind's sins; an unpleasant experience to be sure.

Since it was only three days (as opposed to eternity), it sets up a nice equation showing the relative greatness of Jesus (J) versus Man (M):

3 * J = infinity * M.
J / M = infinity / 3.

A little transfinite arithmetic might suggest that the '3' is arbitrary.

In any case, if you believe the divinity of Jesus, it presents certain <strike>problems</strike> mysteries concerning God abandoning God, God suffering the wrath of God, etc.