The Irreversible Condition of Lost Men Already in Hell When Christ Died Unless one is prepared to say that Christ gave all the dead a second chance to repent (some would say a “first chance”), it is impossible to suppose that Christ died with the intention of saving those whose eternal destiny had already been sealed in death, who were at the time of his death already in hell. He clearly did not die with the intention of saving them. Through erroneous exegesis of Ephesians 4:8–10 and 1 Peter 3:19,