***...to save those who had the bad luck to die before He did.***
Here is your error. Jesus went to Hades to deliver up the righteous dead, not the unsaved dead.
My error? I don’t care to hear from the Book of Ruy Dias de Bivar, but thanks anyway.
“Give us a Book, chapter and verse, will you?”
Here, I’ll give you a nudge: Revelation 22:18-19,
For I testify unto every ... If any man shall add unto
these things, God shall add unto him the plagues
But WHY?
I fully expect to SLEEP until the Last Trump calls ME forth from the tomb; to the Great White Throne Judgement.
Why should the earlier folks do any different?
Here is your error. Jesus went to Hades to deliver up the righteous dead, not the unsaved dead.
Beg your pardon, dear Ruy,but I believe your theology here is a bit incorrect. Those in Paradise needed saving. They were all sinners who were trusting Messiah to save them, as He promised. And that He did.
We do all the sinning, He does all the saving.
Right?