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Excerpted from Dr. David E. Seip’s upcoming book, Heaven. We say in the Apostles’ Creed: “… He suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died, and was buried; he descended to hell. The third...

Excerpted from Dr. David E. Seip’s upcoming book: Heaven. In the last chapter we clarified why we can have confidence in believing that Jesus in fact descended into “hell” (Sheol) as the early...

Excerpted from Dr. David E. Seip’s upcoming book: Heaven. In recent times there has been debate within the church regarding what happened to Christ during the three-day span of his death and his...

Excerpted from Charles Thomas Cruttwell, A Literary History of Early Christianity, volume 1 (London: Charles Griffin and Company, 1893). Historians have remarked that under stress of persecution or extreme...