Earburner
Well-Known Member
You correctly understand what I am saying.Let me look that passage up.
1 Peter 3:19 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.
That passage does not mention babies specifically; but it says Jesus preached to "spirits in prison" -- the spirits of those who were disobedient in the days of Noah. Your next post seems to indicate you think the "dead" could not be preached to. Do I misunderstand you?
All one must do, is look at the verse you just quoted frm the KJV.
1 Peter 3:19 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.
Do you see something missing that will tell more about verses 19-20?
Yes! See verse [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:
Now, lets put that in succession with 19.
By which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison;
Q. When did Jesus preach unto the spirits in prison?
A. [20] When once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing,...
Now, most Christians have a very wrong understanding about that, because they totally misunderstand what
KJV Genesis 2:7 is actually saying about man, and what "soul" is.