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Question

ok did jesus decend to hell before he resurected im catholic but ive never heard this before i looked on the internet and found the apostlescreed were it does say it

"I believe in God, the Father almighty,
maker of heaven and earth;
and in Jesus Christ his only Son our Lord;
who was conceived by the Holy Ghost,
born of the Virgin Mary,
suffered under Pontius Pilate,
was crucified, dead and buried.
He descended into hell.
The third day he rose again from the dead.
He ascended into heaven,
and sitteth on the right hand of God the Father almighty.
From thence he shall come to judge the quick and the dead.
I believe in the Holy Ghost,
the holy catholic Church,
the communion of saints,
the forgiveness of sins,
the resurrection of the body,
and the life everlasting. Amen."

maybe cause i dont pay attention when i say it but did he decend to hell and then heaven

Answer 1

that was the apostle's that said that........ to find your answer......you must first read the new testament objectively. then research the authors, then research the time frame in which it was written. You'll find the truth, just keep asking questions.

Answer 2

No Jesus did not
This is the prayer we say in Mass

We believe in one God, the Father, the Almighty, maker of heaven and earth, of all that is seen and unseen. We believe in one Lord, Jesus Christ, the only Son of God, eternally begotten of the Father, God from God, Light from Light, true God from true God, begotten, not made, one in being with the Father. Through Him all things were made. For us men and our salvation He came down from heaven: by the power of the Holy Spirit, He was born of the Virgin Mary , and became man. For our sake He was crucified under Pontius Pilate; He suffered, died, and was buried. On the third day He rose again in fulfillment of the scriptures: He ascended into heaven and is seated at the right hand of the Father. He will come again in glory to judge the living and the dead, and his kingdom will have no end. We believe in the Holy Spirit, the Lord, the giver of life, who proceeds from the Father and the Son. With the Father and the Son, He is worshiped and glorified. He has spoken through the Prophets. We believe in one, holy, catholic, and apostolic Church. We acknowledge one baptism for the forgiveness of sins. We look for the resurrection of the dead, and the life of the world to come. Amen.

Answer 3

Yes and no. The "hell" that the Apostles speak of in their creed is the afterlife abode known as "Sheol" (pronounced 'shale').

The point is, the souls of those who died before Christ's death on the cross, did not go to heaven. A select few saintly ones made it, evident in the Gospel account of the Transfiguration, when Moses and Elijiah appeared with Jesus.

When Christ died on the cross, he went to hell, or shel, and took the souls of the righteous up to heaven now that God was reconciled to man.

That's the theology behind that particular account in the Apostles Creed. The Nicene Creed, sort of a revamp of the Apostles Creed, does not include the account of Jesus going down to hell. But that does not mean it is no longer a belief of the Church.

Answer 4

From the Catechism of the Catholic Church:

632 The frequent New Testament affirmations that Jesus was "raised from the dead" presuppose that the crucified one sojourned in the realm of the dead prior to his resurrection. This was the first meaning given in the apostolic preaching to Christ's descent into hell: that Jesus, like all men, experienced death and in his soul joined the others in the realm of the dead. But he descended there as Savior, proclaiming the Good News to the spirits imprisoned there.

633 Scripture calls the abode of the dead, to which the dead Christ went down, "hell"—Sheol in Hebrew or Hades in Greek—because those who are there are deprived of the vision of God. Such is the case for all the dead, whether evil or righteous, while they await the redeemer: which does not mean that their lot is identical, as Jesus shows through the parable of the poor man Lazarus who was received into "Abraham's bosom": "It is precisely these holy souls, who awaited their Savior in Abraham's bosom, whom Christ the Lord delivered when he descended into hell." Jesus did not descend into hell to deliver the damned, nor to destroy the hell of damnation, but to free the just who had gone before him.

634 "The gospel was preached even to the dead." The descent into hell brings the Gospel message of salvation to complete fulfillment. This is the last phase of Jesus' messianic mission, a phase which is condensed in time but vast in its real significance: the spread of Christ's redemptive work to all men of all times and all places, for all who are saved have been made sharers in the redemption.

Answer 5

Yes.

Catholics believe that after Jesus died on the cross, he descended into Sheol, the place of the dead. While there He freed the holy souls who awaited their savior in Abraham's bosom.

Whether or not Adam and Eve were in the group of the just or the damned, I'm not sure. But I always hope that people are reconciled to God.

With love in Christ.

Answer 6

Yes, he did. Here is the official teaching of the Catholic Church on your question.

632
The frequent New Testament affirmations that Jesus was "raised from the dead" presuppose that the crucified one sojourned in the realm of the dead prior to his resurrection.478 This was the first meaning given in the apostolic preaching to Christ's descent into hell: that Jesus, like all men, experienced death and in his soul joined the others in the realm of the dead. But he descended there as Savior, proclaiming the Good News to the spirits imprisoned there.479

633
Scripture calls the abode of the dead, to which the dead Christ went down, "hell"—Sheol in Hebrew or Hades in Greek—because those who are there are deprived of the vision of God.480 Such is the case for all the dead, whether evil or righteous, while they await the redeemer: which does not mean that their lot is identical, as Jesus shows through the parable of the poor man Lazarus who was received into "Abraham's bosom":481 "It is precisely these holy souls, who awaited their Savior in Abraham's bosom, whom Christ the Lord delivered when he descended into hell."482 Jesus did not descend into hell to deliver the damned, nor to destroy the hell of damnation, but to free the just who had gone before him.483

634
"The gospel was preached even to the dead."484 The descent into hell brings the Gospel message of salvation to complete fulfillment. This is the last phase of Jesus' messianic mission, a phase which is condensed in time but vast in its real significance: the spread of Christ's redemptive work to all men of all times and all places, for all who are saved have been made sharers in the redemption.

635
Christ went down into the depths of death so that "the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear will live."485 Jesus, "the Author of life," by dying destroyed "him who has the power of death, that is, the devil, and [delivered] all those who through fear of death were subject to lifelong bondage."486 Henceforth the risen Christ holds "the keys of Death and Hades," so that "at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth."487

I hope the above helped clarify things for you.

Grace and peace to you

Answer 7

It isn't Hell the way we think of it.

recall that before Christ's Ascension to Heaven, the dead could not enter heaven. Hell in this case was like 'hades' in mythology- a place the dead went to. The Jewish word is Sheol.

Heaven is being forever with God, hell is the absence of God.

Answer 8

Yes, He descended into Hell for three days before being resurrected. That is when He paid for all of our sins.

Also, He didn't ascend into Heaven right from Hell. He came back to earth and hung out with the disciples for a little bit longer and then he ascended into Heaven.

Answer 9

Well if you are thinking when we say it in Mass it is because we don't say the Apostles Creed in Mass, we say the Nicean Creed.

The Nicean creed is our communal profession of faith, the APostles is our individual profession of faith.

And yes. Christ was not on earth those three day, had not ascended to heaven yet according to his own words.

Answer 10

Christ's descent into Hell is called "The Harrowing Of Hell". There are various theological interpretations of it. Some people choose to say "descended to the dead" instead of "descended into Hell". Here's an article about it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrowing_of_hell

Answer 11

The apostles' creed was not written by any of the apostles. This is a bunch of baloney that cannot be proven to have actually occured. In fact, the entire Bible is a flawed , man-made compilation of numerous contradictions. To top this nonsense, the Catholic church bastardized and twisted the flawed book into a pagan hybrid. ...i.e. worship of idols (statues), polytheism (trinity), repetitious chanting (rosary and novenas), and lots of silly rituals.