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As a young church in a hostile environment, Peter's first readers found in his letter encouragement, not just for facing suffering, but for living responsibly in the world as faithful disciples of Jesus Christ. Christians today will also find in Peter's letter a wealth of practical counsel on how to conduct themselves in family and social life, as well as in relation to a society that makes it...

3. If Christ preached in the person of Noah, then spirits in prison describes the human beings who were disobedient during the building of the ark. Let us now assess these different interpretations: In favor of view 2, some scholars note that when New Testament authors use the word “spirits” to denote spirits of dead persons, it is always qualified in such a way as to make this clear. They then claim the description in verse 20 of the disobedience of the spirits to whom Christ preached fits human