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#137 Atheist asks: Was Jesus’ death just a ’bad weekend at human camp’?

Ask NT Wright Anything

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Are You Saying, Today You Will Be With Me in Paradise?

The idea of Jesus descending into a shale or into the abode of the dead is based on 1 Peter. Some Christian traditions have said that he goes down to hell in order to say, okay guys, it's all over coming up out of here. If you look at Greek Orthodox icons of the resurrection, Jesus leading Adam and Eve out of the underworld. Now there's all sorts of things going on there, which I don't think the New Testament is talking about.

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