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Discussion in 'Other Christian Denominations' started by billwald, Jun 16, 2012.

  1. Fred's Wife

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    What part of "the Spirit of the pre-incarnate Christ" preached through Noah 'while the ark was preparing' " do you not understand? For 120 years, Noah preached that JUDGMENT was coming. There was NO Gospel preached 'while the ark was preparing.' Noah was not preaching to people who were dead at that time....but to people who would be destroyed in the flood. Peter states that those living people to whom Noah preached (past tense) are NOW (present tense) dead spirits who are NOW (present tense)in prison.

    There are NO second chances to hear the Gospel after death.

    Hebrews 9:27 And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:
     
  2. Moriah

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    That is your manufactured beliefs, that the “pre-incarnate Christ “ preached to the people while the ark was preparing. The Bible says, “For Christ died for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you to God. He was put to death in the body but made alive by the Spirit,” was Jesus put to death in the days of Noah and made alive in the Spirit to preach to the people while the ark was being prepared? NO.
    Who said Noah preached the gospel while the ark was being built? I did not say that!
    “Noah was not preaching to people who were dead at that time” what?
    Oh, so you must be trying to explain something to your husband Fred.
    You tell that to the word of God, because the word of God says Jesus preached the gospel to spirits who had died.
     
  3. Steadfast Fred

    Steadfast Fred Active Member

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    Your problem is you do not believe the Word of God. The Word of God says He preached to those who were disobedient while the ark was preparing.

    You deny the Word of God.
     
  4. Steadfast Fred

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    1 Peter 4:6 (KJV) For for this cause was (past tense) the gospel preached (past tense) also to them that are dead, (present tense) that they might be judged according to men in the flesh, but live according to God in the spirit.

    Pay attention... the Gospel was preached to the living who are now dead. They heard the Gospel BEFORE they died.

    Perhaps Exegesis 101 would help you out.
     
  5. Michael Wrenn

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    I knew the charge was coming against you. You show beyond question what the passages literally say and mean, and because their refutation is completely nonsensical to the point they have to manufacture words and meanings that are not there, causing them to twist and contort like worms on a fish-hook, they resort to the charge that you do not believe the Word of God.

    Congratulations! You have done an excellent job! The accusers are caught on their own hooks! :laugh:
     
  6. Steadfast Fred

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    What is nonsensical is someone beleiving "while the ark was a preparing" actually means "up to the time of the crucifixion of Christ.

    What is equally nonsensical is the claim that people can be saved after dying without knowing Christ.
     
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  7. Michael Wrenn

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    Oh, I have to stop: The all-knowing one has spoken. I doubt if God appreciates being spoken for.

    Let's see now: The mob makes up words that are not in the Bible, but then one of the mobsters accuses Moriah of denying the Word of God. Who is really doing that? The answer is clear, and it's not Moriah.
     
  8. mandym

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    Where in the crazy world did you ever get this?

    2Pe_2:5 And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly;
     
  9. Steadfast Fred

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    He came to that conclusion by ignoring the written Word of God.
     
  10. Michael Wrenn

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    Fred's favorite song (called for again):

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qr5sdGJ6Wns

    Fitting for one who along with wife makes up words that are not in the Bible and then charges someone else with denying the Word of God.
     
  11. Steadfast Fred

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    It is quite evident that the only "twisting" that is being done is by MW and Moriah.
     
  12. Steadfast Fred

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    The Word of God says Jesus, in the Spirit, preached while the ark was a preparing.

    MW and Moriah say, "not so".

    They may as well say, "Yea, hath God said...?" because God's Word says when the preaching took place and to whom, but MW and Moriah reject the plain words of the Apostle Peter.
     
  13. Michael Wrenn

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    Who in this argument is adding to the scriptures, trying to put words there that are not there? It's not Moriah or I.

    Must be getting very uncomfortable squirming on that hook -- writhing and contorting; makes people charge others with denying the Word of God. Gee, wonder what false accusation will come next?
     
  14. Michael Wrenn

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    The passage does not say Jesus preached while the ark was preparing. That is a complete falsehood.
     
  15. Michael Wrenn

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    1 Peter 3: 19-20 NASB -- 19 in which also He went and made proclamation to the spirits now in prison, 20 who once were disobedient, when the patience of God kept waiting in the days of Noah, during the construction of the ark, in which a few, that is, eight persons, were brought safely through the water.

    Notice that this does NOT say that Jesus preached while the ark was preparing, or during the construction of the ark, as the NAASB puts it. The ONLY way to make it say that is to twist, contort, and reconstruct the passage.

    Fred is denying the Word of God.

    The clear meaning is that the spirits were disobedient during the construction of the ark; it does not say that Jesus preached to these spirits during the construction of the ark. To make it say that, you have to twist and contort the construction of the sentence. I know what I am talking about concerning the correct construct of this sentence; I have been teaching such for 20 years.

    Fred is denying the word of God while falsely accusing others of that. Fred does not believe Bible truth.
     
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  16. Steadfast Fred

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    1 Peter 3:18 (KJV) 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.

    By which also He went.... What does "by which" refer to? The Spirit (v18)
    He also went and preached... preached to whom? the spirits in prison (v19)
    Which spirits did He preach to? those who were sometimes disobedient when once the longsuffering of God waited
    And when did God have that longsuffering? in the days of Noah, while the ark was preparing.

    The archbishop is denying the Word of God when he says Christ did not preach to those who were disobedient in the days the ark was preparing.
    The spirits Christ preached to were those who were killed in the flood, the ones that Christ preached through in Spirit through his servant Noah.
     
  17. Steadfast Fred

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    The following is by the late Pastor Nick Michalinos, Austin Avenue Baptist Church, Pasadena, Texas:

    “Some have the idea that Christ, between His death on the cross and His resurrection three days later, went and preached to lost spirits who were imprisoned in the spirit underworld. However, this is not what these verses teach. The word ‘prison’ is used with regard to the spiritual realm (see Re 20:3,7, Satan’s ‘prison’), the unseen spirit world, the Hadean world (Lu 16:23-31) where lost spirits reside and are reserved unto ‘the day of judgment to be punished’ (2Pe 2:9; Re 20:13-14).

    “When was this preaching done? Our text states, ‘in the days of Noah…’ This occurred just before the flood. Christ did not go down to Hades and preach the gospel to ‘spirits in prison.’ The preaching was done in ‘the days of Noah.’

    “Who did the preaching in that day? By continuing the flow of thought from 1Pe 3:18 into verse 19 we see that ‘Christ … by the Spirit … went and preached.’ We are told in Ge 6:3, ‘And My Spirit shall not always strive with man.’ From this we can see that Christ through the Holy Spirit was striving with the people just before the flood. He used the ‘preaching’ of Noah, who was ‘a preacher of righteousness’ (2Pe 2:5). So we have Christ sending the Spirit, and the Spirit spoke through a human instrument, Noah, and Noah preached to the people.

    “What was the response to the Spirit’s striving through Noah’s preaching? It is said they were “disobedient” (1Pe 3:20). They resisted the Spirit (Ac 7:51).”
     
  18. Michael Wrenn

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    It is quite clear from 1 Peter 3:19-20 and other supporting scriptures, as has been pointed out, that Jesus after He died went and preached to the spirits in prison. That is the clear meaning according to the construct of the sentence, without having to twist and contort to make it say something it does not.

    Fred has denied the Word of God.
     
  19. Michael Wrenn

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    The pastor is wrong. Trot out others. The only way to make it say what you want it to, is to twist and contort and change the construct of the sentence.

    Fred continues to deny the clear Word of God. Not only that, he and spouse add to it. They do not believe the Bible.
     
  20. Steadfast Fred

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    Geneva notes:

    22. A secret objection: Christ indeed might do this, but what is that to us? Indeed (faith the apostle) for Christ has showed his power in all ages both in the preservation of the godly, were they never so few and miserable, and in avenging the rebellion of his enemies, as it appears by the history of the flood: for Christ is he who in those days (when God through his patience appointed a time of repentance to the world) was present, not in corporal presence, but by his divine power, preaching repentance, even by the mouth of Noah himself who then prepared the ark, to those disobedient spirits who are now in prison, waiting for the full recompence of their rebellion, and saved those few, (that is, only eight people) in the water.
     
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