FerventGodSeeker
Believer
Can you tell me where in Scripture it is seen that those in torment in Sheol are released out of torment in Sheol by Christ?Or "Sheol." This illustrates that the Christian belief is that one is either a) alive or b) dead. The basic Christian tenet is unconcerned with hell, per se. Why? Because Christ came to the place where the dead are and released them to life.
You agree, I hope, that Matthew 25 is a description of that judgment. Refer to that passage if you want to know what I'm referring to."Judge the living and the dead." I don't see any mention of sending anyone anywhere in that statement, whether they be people, sheep, goats, or pink unicorns.
Well, in neither Greek nor Latin is the word there "the dead," as the translation you're advocating states.In what way is it not "accurate?"
"Our" Creed? The Apostles' Creed is hardly the POV of one denomination. If you claim to believe in the Creed, I hope you mean more than, "I believe in the English translation of it that the ECUSA published." As you admit yourself, the ECUSA has obviously revised it's translation of the Creed at least once...it is possible that it mistranslates it, wouldn't you say?Your post intended to hold Episcopalians to some sort of professed, standard, creedal belief. I stated what our Creed says.
And I can't help it if it's mistranslated in the BCPI can't help it if you don't like it
If you're claiming to believe in the Creed (not just your version of it), then it does become your issue, when you flatly deny one of the clauses therein.but that's really your issue, and not an issue for the ECUSA. What I must admit is that we believe what we believe, not what you think we "should" believe.