EP: 110 The Underworld with Derek Gilbert
Blurry Creatures
You Go in and You Come Out Again, Representing Resurrection
Mike Heiser has talked about how disappointed he was as they were attending a church where the pastor was going through the Bible verse by verse and exegeting each verse. The reference in Peter, you're talking about 1 Peter 3 beginning around verse 18 where Jesus goes down and he proclaims to the spirits in prison. And then Peter says baptism corresponds to this. But basically, we go into the abyss because in the Old Testament, especially the sea represents primordial cast, the abyss. You go in and you come out again, representing resurrection. It's like flipping the bird to the losers being like, look, you know, this is a victory lap.
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