In v.14, Jesus was referring to little children and said concerning them “of such is the kingdom of God”. I understand by that, that it places the little children to be part of the kingdom of God, not only that Jesus in v.15 speaks to the child like receiving of the kingdom of God. Verse 16 supports this understanding.
So when do children stop being part of teh kingdom of God. When do they lose their by birth salvation and have to trust Christ to get born again-AGAIN?
<<<First, No where does it say Jesus
preached the gospel.>>>
With reference to 1 Peter 3:19, what do you suggest Christ preached by the Spirit then, considering the context, if not the gospel?
YOu forget that the word preach
<<<Second Paul specifically declares that the gospel is for damnation to those who reject it.>>>
The gospel is good news. The gospel is of salvation, not damnation. Those who reject it does not alter the gospel of salvation, nor make it a gospel of condemnation to them.
<<<Are you saying that Jesus preached to the worlds inhabitants in the time of Noah and preached His death Burial and REsurrection?>>>
It is becoming apparently clear that what you see and how you take the gospel of salvation is different from what I see and how I take it.
No, I am not saying that.
here is not the word to evangelize or share good news(euanglizo)
preached the gospel.
Second Paul specifically declares that the gospel is for damnation to those who reject it.
3. Are you saying that Jesus preached to the worlds inhabitants in the time of Noah and preached His death Burial and REsurrection? Are you also saying that all the worlds inhabitants except Noah and his family were in prison?
The gospel is good news-to those who receive it. But to those who reject it?
- 2 Corinthians 2:15
For we are unto God a sweet savour of Christ, in them that are saved, and in them that perish:
In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations - 2 Corinthians 2:16
To the one we are the savour of death unto death; and to the other the savour of life unto life. And who is sufficient for these things?
Yes all are saved by grace through faith, and all are saved because of the blood Jesus shed. but the object of faith has been different in different times.
Yes everyone who died in the flood are in the place of torments awaiting the lake of fire. Peter calls it prision.
Noah was a preacher of righteousness for 120 years while building the ark. No one accepted His message except his family- they died and were lost.
Genesis 6
King James Version
6 And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them,
2 That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose.
3 And the Lord said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.
4 There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.
5 And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
6 And it repented the Lord that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.
7 And the Lord said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them.
8 But Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord.
Scripture makes it clear. All were l;ost excpet Noah and His family.