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dave:
I realize and know that it says in the scriptures that the dead know nothing, I dont completly have mind mind around that still, I know it is a truth; a person came by just this evening from a bible study group and she had a question she wanted to ask the teacher but didnt get to. She said she wondered why he had just seemed to skip the verse. It was I Pet. 4:6 and it was that very verse she wanted to ask about, I could have begun but I would have left her empty..how did this tallking of the gospel to the "dead" take place? Why would the talking take place.?

Chris R:
Hi Micah

"spirtually dead"

As in the following few verses


 Mat 8:22  But Jesus said unto him, Follow me; and let the dead bury their dead.



 Luk 15:32  It was meet that we should make merry, and be glad: for this thy brother was dead, and is alive again; and was lost, and is found.

Neither of the above verses mean literally "dead people".

One cannot go down to the grave and "preach" to dead people. But you can preach the gospel to those spiritually "dead".

Hope this helps

Chris R

joyful1:
:D Chris-- thanks for posting that! You catch some things, but time goes by without using them and you loose them! You just reminded me of one of the most important foundational truths! "Dead" spiritually speaking is simply "dead to the truth!"  Thanks again!
Joyce :)

dave:
Thanks. I believe I knew that.

Deborah-Leigh:

Heb 9 : 27 And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but AFTER THIS , THE JUDGEMENT.

The Gospel of the Kingdom of God is not preached to humans after they die. There is no Scripture that says that.  After men die the next thing to happen is Judgement. This is what God's Word teaches quite plainly.

Jesus did not go to the generation of Noah's day AFTER they were dead,  to preach them the Gospel of Salvation. He went while they were still alive! The message of the coming of the Messiah was preached in their LIFETIME.  Christ did not go back and raise the generation of Noah FROM THE DEAD to preach to them ahead of Judgement. If He did, then you would have to say that God is a respecter of persons.  God is not a respecter of persons and He did not go and preach to anyone who is dead. When you are dead you know not anything. That is Gods Word. GOD does not lie.

After you die, then there is Judgement. God says so. It is that simple.

When Jesus Christ died HE too was dead and not alive some place else. :)

Hope this helps

Peace to you

Arcturus :)

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