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Postmortem Opportunity: A Biblical and Theological Assessment of Salvation after Death is unavailable, but you can change that!

One of Jesus’ most basic commands to his disciples was to tell the world about the good news of his life, death, and resurrection. From the earliest days of the church, Christians have embraced this calling. But for those Christians who emphasize the need for an active response to the gospel in order to be saved, this raises some difficult questions: What about those who did not hear the gospel...

with this line of thinking is that the Ephesians, like the majority of the first century Mediterranean world, had a three-tiered cosmology: the heavens (the home of God and the angels), the earth (the abode of living humans), the underworld (the realm of the dead). And the phrase “lower, earthly regions” was commonly used to refer to the underworld or Hades. Thielman argues, “It is extremely unlikely that Paul would use the phrase [descended to the lower, earthly regions] in such a cultural environment
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