Duncan, Ferguson, Godfrey, and Sproul: Questions and Answers #3 

They had him rolling for a good minute there lol

How could Jesus empties himself? God can stop to be God? God can stop any of his attributes? Jesus is 100% God, 100% man 2 distinct natures but unite. So if you try to go in any direction is simply a heresy.

You are referring to the Kenosis theory. It comes from κένωσις - [the act of emptying]. It becomes very problematic for understanding Christ, His Deity, and the very nature of Christianity itself. One needs a better system for understanding this issue. One that comes without the implications that the kenosis theory brings with it. (this Q+A does a good job answering this question based on a reliable hermeneutical system)

In Jewish tradition if you look at Shams "Hear of Israel" the first line stands for the whole. Thats why the first book is called Genesis. When Jesus says "my God my God why have you forsaken me" he's giving the first line of psalm 22 so for me The Lord is declaring that Proohecy is being fulfilled

We would say there was a law back then and the covenant of works wherein Life was promised to Adam and in him to his posterity, upon the condition of perfect personal obedience. Man by his fall made himself and those after him incapable of of life by that covenant, God was pleased to make a second, the Covenant of Grace wherein God promises Life by Faith in Christ even on that side of the cross. Like how we are saved and justified the same way today as Abraham was in Genesis. Based on the same covenant of Grace. Those on that side cross or that side flood were descendants of Adam and if in hell were there for Adams sin and if they didn’t believe and trust in the coming seed of Gen. 3:15 how else could Noah be a “preacher of righteousness” 1 Pet. 2:5 if there was no gospel back then? I believe Noah preached the Gospel of Gen. 3:15 by which those who believed were saved in the ark. Which was the heads of all the nations, the type of the universal Gospel. If there was no law there wouldn’t be a need for the gospel. We believe there was a law, and there was the gospel pre flood. At least I believe that

Leslie Harris so he now believes in pre-trib?

Sometime later in another Q&A probably 2015,2016 he mentioned in a funny way that he really didn’t know. I don’t remember which Q&A it was.

Leslie Harris ah I see ok thank you!!

I am glad to hear you say that!!! I thought i would drop to the floor when he said that! I admire RC so much, that one had ne rubbing my head

@@kathyleeh7466 He always makes ya think! I miss him. Such a body of work, we could be busy watching it for many years!

Jesus did into Hell [the grave] after his crucifixion He was DEAD! The breath [oxygen] no longer sustained his body. And what did he preach to the spirits? He had not been resurrected. He had not defeated the devil so what did he preach to the spirits. He told the thief on the cross "for I tell you today.....meaning NOW that when he came into his Kingdom he would be with him! Jesus did not ascend to Heaven after his resurrection but told Mary NOT to cling to him as he had Not ascended to his father and God....and her God and father!!! The spirits in prison were the fallen angels, I think these guys do a lot of fudging! Half the time I am not sure what they are talking about. But I guess I am just Simple! But then Jesus [the man...son of man] preached to simple people. Can you just imagine these guys preaching to the simple folks in Jesus" day?? God-man is mentioned NOWHERE in the Bible .

They broke it down, you're just doing where you feel comfort as an answer which may be misleading to or misunderstood by the audience

This is why Reformed Christians hold to a limited atonement.

Sin doesn't necessarily "go" anywhere. When Jesus died, the guilt of all His people's sins were imputed to Him. In other words, the sins which we ourselves have committed: the guiltiness of those sins were accounted to Him. When this took place, God the Father poured out His wrath upon Jesus, for "For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God." (II Corinthians 5:21); all of the sins of the people of God have been paid for in Jesus's sacrificial atonement. They are no longer accounted to us, and so we stand before God in the absolute righteousness of Jesus, which has been imputed to us.

Satan aka the serpent (originally named Lucifer the top Archangel) deceived Eve, and Eve convinced Adam; not other fallen angels who fell with Lucifer.

I see it that Matthew 12:40 Jesus descended into the heart of the earth. In Luke 16 about the Rich man & Lazarus, there was a great gulf between where Lazarus was and the Rich man was being in torment. Now paradise is in heaven because he took captivity captive, those souls who were saved before the cross and where souls of the saved go to today upon death. Just the way I see it

Hell, sheol and hades are merely the grave. There is No ever-burning hell fire. This pagan belied came from the Middle/Dark ages.

How so?

@@NitoLFC12 His post trib position. He also said Jesus didnt go to Hell when he was crucified. Jesus soul did go to Hell. He was on the Paradise side if Hell And also on the oinishmenr punishment side where he preached to the fallen angels from Genesis 6. I think He was letting them know He had completed his mission and proclaming victory.

@@markrobertsministries I agree

Here...here!!

Bro not trying to start anything but RC knows more about the bible than you ever will