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To: count-your-change
"In Acts 2:25 Peter quotes David (from Psalm 16:10) where he speaks about the Christ saying His soul would not be left in hell."

Acts 2:25, "David said about him:
" 'I saw the Lord always before me.
Because he is at my right hand,
I will not be shaken.

Nothing about God being in hell here.

Psalm 16:10, " because you will not abandon me to the grave, nor will you let your Holy One see decay."

Nothing about God being in Hell here either.

David himself is dead and buried, vs 29."

Nothing about David, or anyone else being in hell here. Acts 2:29, "Brothers, I can tell you confidently that the patriarch David died and was buried, and his tomb is here to this day."

"David not in heaven, vs 34."

Acts 2:34, "For David did not ascend to heaven, and yet he said,
" 'The Lord said to my Lord:
"Sit at my right hand

Obviously David wasn't dead yet, because he wrote this and went on writing. Nevertheless, it has nothing to do with anyone being, or having been in hell. It indicates that Jesus is God, since only God can be His own right hand man, and only God is the Person of the Holy Spirit, and David was given that while alive. It is the same plurality that's found in Gen 1:29, when God identifies the Person whose image and likeness man is in, and in Gen 3:22 where God IDs man as knowing good and evil. In those passages God refers to Himself as us.

"Where was Christ during the three days in the light of the above? Paradise, hell, heaven, tomb?

None of the above addresses that. Paradise is Heaven. A tomb is simply a place to place a dead body, one that is incapable of functioning as the living machinery that supports the spirit, as in post 60. The spirit does not reside in a grave. The following tells exactly where God's Spirit went. Luke 23:43
Jesus answered him, "I tell you the truth, today you will be with me in paradise." God's Spirit would be in no other place, but in His own place and in His own Temple. That Temple was destroyed on the cross, but not His Spirit. The Temple was raised by Him in 3 days, as per John 2:19, "Jesus answered them, "Destroy this temple, and I will raise it again in three days."

78 posted on 03/18/2008 7:12:16 PM PDT by spunkets ("Freedom is about authority", Rudy Giuliani, gun grabber)
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To: spunkets

In Acts 2:25 Peter begins his quote of David’s words from Psalms.
According to the AV Bible Psalms 16:10 says,”For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell; neither will thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption”.
Peter repeated those words in vs. 27. Showing that David was speaking prophetically of the Christ Peter adds that David is dead and buried still in vs. 29. In vs. 30 David knew that Christ would be raised up to sit on his (David’s) throne. In vs. 31 Peter says,’He(David) seeing this before spake of the resurrection of Christ that his(Christ’s) soul was not left in hell...”.
In vs. 34 Peter says David did not go into heaven but that the LORD(God)said to David’s Lord(Christ) that Jesus would sit at God’s right hand, a reference to Psalm 110:1.
Jesus himself quoted part of Psalm 110 to show that David spoke prophetically of Christ sitting at God’s right hand.
No, there’s no mention of God in hell as Christ and God are not the same person. Vs.36 says God made Jesus Lord and Christ not that God made himself Lord and Christ.
The above certainly does address the question of where Jesus was during the three days. He was dead and God raised him up, resurrected him on the third day, not on the first. His soul was in what the Av. translates as “hell” as Psalm 16:10 was applied to Jesus by Peter and Paul too at Acts 13.
The use of the word “hell” by the AV. is unfortunate because of the various meanings attached later to it but I chose the AV. because it is widely used and consistent when quoting Psalm 16:10 in Acts 2.
The man beside Jesus asked ‘when you come into your kingdom’. Jesus didn’t come into his kingdom that day and couldn’t until after he was resurrected on the third day and hence couldn’t have gone into heaven or paradise either.
In fact at John 20:17 Jesus appears to Mary and says he has not yet ascended to his father and his God.


83 posted on 03/18/2008 11:43:30 PM PDT by count-your-change (you don't have to be brilliant, not being stupid is enough.)
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