For those who care, may today be a joyful day of celebrating Easter. And for those that just don't get it but might like to understand what the big fuss is about that warrants the attention of over 2 billion people in the world today, here's a video you can watch privately from home. The Sunday sermon starts at the 30 minute mark and does an excellent job of summarizing the Gospel message relevant to each of us and our lives.
Matthew 28:5-7 - But the angel said to the women, “Do not be afraid, for I know that you seek Jesus who was crucified. He is not here, for he has risen, as he said. Come, see the place where he lay. Then go quickly and tell his disciples that he has risen from the dead, and behold, he is going before you to Galilee; there you will see him. See, I have told you.”
Have to admit, I don't know everything about the Bible, but did Jesus descend into Hell? Don't remember reading anything like that. Just done some online research and the Bible, itself, does not state that Jesus done that.
Yes, indeed, Happy Easter!! Our Lord has risen!! We haven't attended a Sunrise Service for Easter in many years, but did when living in Colorado and in North Carolina.
It was apparently fulfilling a prophecy @Cody Fousnaugh. https://www.christianity.com/wiki/jesus-christ/did-jesus-descend-into-hell.html
I think hell is called Gehenna a place of torment, not hell, hell is a place we go to 'burial' before we receive the spirit of everlasting life. Just my understanding. Christ’s descent into Hell, or Hades, can actually be found in both the Old and New Testaments. It constitutes a portion of the biblical narrative of how God saves us through Jesus Christ. Hell can be seen as the holding place where the souls of the good and the bad went after death (Luke 16:19-31). It is to be differentiated from Gehenna, the place of eternal torment (Mark 9:42-48; Revelation 20:14).
I think Gehenna was an area where the trash from Jerusalem was burned. It was seen as someplace to be avoided, but now that cremation has become popular, I assume it would now be a an area of choice in which to be disposed.
I have read that somewhere too. Gehenna was a garbage dump, where pretty much all things were thrown in; dead animals, some dead bodies, and refuse. It all got burned there. It burned day and night. And growling wild dogs (with gnashing teeth) were always hanging around there looking for food. Depending on who’s interrupting the word(s), certain words have different meanings to different religions. I think the original Bible was written in Hebrew. When it was translated into English, who knows what was changed. It seems every religion has its own interpretation of the bible, and what they want it to mean.
Old Testament was written mostly in Hebrew; Much of the New Testament was written in Greek, but the common language of the area at the time was Aramaic. I think the Letters for Paul were the only part of the New Testament directly written in Greek, and the remainder could have been in other languages before being finalized in Greek. Many scholars I have read have said the Old Testament Jesus knew was actually in Greek, but he could read the Hebrew scrolls as well.