Christianity; The popular belief that a celestial Jewish baby who is also his own father, born from a virgin mother, died for three days so that he could ascend to heaven on a cloud and then make you live forever only if you symbolically eat his flesh, drink his blood and telepathically tell him you accept him as your lord & master so he can remove an evil force from your spiritual being that is present in all humanity because an immoral woman made from a man's rib was hoodwinked by a talking reptile possessed by an malicious angel to secretly eat forbidden fruit from a magical tree.

5) died for three days

When we die.

Upon death all souls return to heaven. They are not in limbo, they are not in a body that is in a hole in the ground. They are on one side of the gulf or the other, but they return back to heaven.

Ecclesiastes 12: 6

Or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl be broken, or the pitcher be broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern.

That means when we die.

Ecclesiastes 12: 7

Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.

The flesh goes back to the ground, and the soul "returns" to God, which is to say we go back to where Jesus is now, and where we were at the time. That's the same place Jesus' soul was before he was conceived, and where he is now. That's exactly where he "returned", and we are no different.

When He died.

Jesus was put to death in the flesh, and quickened in the spirit means his soul returned to where it came from.

1 Peter 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:

Jesus did not stay in the tomb until the resurrection, only his flesh body did. His soul returned to the same dimension of the gulf, and he preached to the souls that were there.

1 Peter 3: 19

By which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison;

Some would say it was to the fallen angels, but they already cheated. By coming directly they forfeit the right to a trial and judgment. For that reason their game is done. They die instantly when the real Christ returns.

Revelation 11: 13

And the same hour was there a great earthquake, and the tenth part of the city fell, and in the earthquake were slain of men seven thousand: and the remnant were affrighted, and gave glory to the God of heaven.

This is when God shakes things up for the next stage. It's such n shaking that even the remnant get scared, but they know who is in charge. It's at this event the fallen angels are dealt with. It was a sealed fate from the moment they cheated, so Jesus could not have been preaching to them. It says he freed many, so who else is in prison?

1 Peter 4: 6

For for this cause was the gospel preached also to them that are dead, that they might be judged according to men in the flesh, but live according to God in the spirit.

Everyone on the other side of the gulf is also in prison, because they are on the wrong side (that's why we have the Millennium). Those in heaven have Bible's too. Prophesy fulfilled here is prophesy fulfilled there. Jesus returning and preaching to them was their sign, and at the same time it tells us where he went.

Then he came back to his flesh body and was resurrected. That's why he was seen on the mount of transfiguration with Moses and Elijah. Each of them a witnesses to the transfiguration, as it was written for each.

Matthew 17: 2

And was transfigured before them: and his face did shine as the sun, and his raiment was white as the light.

Matthew 17: 3

And, behold, there appeared unto them Moses and Elias talking with him.

That's Moses and Elijah (Elias in the Greek). All three appeared together, each having two other witnesses that this is true. Probably the three biggest names on the marquee.

Moses. There was no body left.

Jude 1: 9

Yet Michael the archangel, when contending with the devil he disputed about the body of Moses, durst not bring against him a railing accusation, but said, The Lord rebuke thee.

Elijah. There was no body left.

2 Kings 2: 11

And it came to pass, as they still went on, and talked, that, behold, there appeared a chariot of fire, and horses of fire, and parted them both asunder; and Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven.

2 Kings 2: 12

And Elisha saw it, and he cried, My father, my father, the chariot of Israel, and the horsemen thereof. And he saw him no more: and he took hold of his own clothes, and rent them in two pieces.

Jesus. There was no body left.

John 20: 5

And he stooping down, and looking in, saw the linen clothes lying; yet went he not in.

John 20: 6

Then cometh Simon Peter following him, and went into the sepulchre, and seeth the linen clothes lie,

Jesus also left a hint with with the napkin that he is coming back.

John 20: 7

And the napkin, that was about his head, not lying with the linen clothes, but wrapped together in a place by itself.

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