Since when does “prison” mean hell? you are putting words into Gods mouth. that word in the Greek was never translated hell. Christ did not go preach to people in hell as if he could save them.
In 1 pet 4 why does “dead” have to mean in eternal hell? It doesn’t, it can mean other things such as being spiritually dead while still living on this earth. God told Adam and Eve that the day they eat of the tree they would die. Did they die? Not physically but spiritually they did.
you are building a doctrine by putting words into Gods mouth that he did not say.
Incorrect
Christ descended into hell:
9 (Now this, "He ascended "-- what does it mean but that He also first descended into the lower parts of the earth?
10 He who descended is also the One who ascended far above all the heavens, that He might fill all things.) (Eph. 4:9-10 NKJ)
That is confirmed by this context.
18 For Christ also suffered once for sins, the just for the unjust, that He might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive by the Spirit,
19 by whom also He went and preached to the spirits in prison (5438 φυλακή phulake),
20 who formerly were disobedient, (544 ἀπειθέω apeitheo) when once the Divine longsuffering waited in the days of Noah, while
the ark was being prepared, in which a few, that is, eight souls, were saved through water. (1 Pet. 3:18-20 NKJ)
φυλακή phulake
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(IV) Of the place where someone is watched, guarded, kept in custody, a prison. Generally (Matt. 5:25; 14:3, 10; 18:30; 25:36, 39, 43, 44; Mark 6:17, 40; Luke 3:20; 12:58; 21:12; 22:33; 23:19, 25; John 3:24; Acts 5:19, 22, 25; 8:3; 12:4–6, 17; 16:23, 24, 27, 37, 40; 22:4; 26:10; Rev. 2:10). In the sense of imprisonment (2 Cor. 6:5; 11:23; Heb. 11:36; Sept.: Gen. 40:3f.; 42:17; Lev. 24:12; 1 Kgs. 22:27). Poetically of the bottomless pit, abyss, Tartarus, as the prison of demons and the souls of wicked men (
1 Pet. 3:19; Rev. 20:7 [cf. 2 Pet. 2:4; Jude 1:6]). See tartaróō (5020), to consign to Tartarus. Zodhiates, S. (2000). In The complete word study dictionary: New Testament (electronic ed.). AMG Publishers.
These are spirits who have been in prison since the days of Noah. That connects them to the angels who sinned now in Tartarus, the "LOWEST HELL"
1 When humankind began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born to them,
2 the sons of God saw that the daughters of humankind were beautiful. Thus they took wives for themselves from any they chose.
3 So the LORD said, "My spirit will not remain in humankind indefinitely, since they are mortal. They will remain for 120 more years."
4 The Nephilim were on the earth in those days (and also after this) when the sons of God were having sexual relations with the daughters of humankind, who gave birth to their children. They were the mighty heroes of old, the famous men. (Gen. 6:1-4 NET)
"Sons of God" are angels (Job 1:6; 2:1; 38:7)
6 You also know that the angels who did not keep within their proper domain but abandoned their own place of residence, he has kept in eternal chains in utter darkness, locked up for the judgment of the great Day.
7 So also Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighboring towns, since they indulged in sexual immorality and pursued unnatural desire in a way similar to these angels, are now displayed as an example by suffering the punishment of eternal fire. (Jude 1:6-7 NET)
For if God did not spare the angels who sinned, but cast
them down to hell and delivered
them into chains of darkness, to be reserved for judgment; (2 Pet. 2:4 NKJ)
The "prison" was a separate chamber in hell for these particular "spirits in prison." They aren't with either the wicked humans or angels, they have their own special place because they are special, they were the offspring of the angel-human "marriages", the "men of renown".
They weren't wicked, they were "formerly disobedient (544 ἀπειθέω apeitheo)".
"Disobedient is interpretation, not translation. 544 ἀπειθέω apeitheo means disbelieving, and that disbelief led them to "disobey".
They couldn't believe Noah's preaching, that God would forgive their "abomination", the image of God (Gen. 1:26-27) that was corrupted and defiled with the DNA of angels.
The "men of renown" likely built the megalithic structures that date before the flood, both on land and under the sea.
The technology used to build those structures is more advanced than what we have today. They were the offspring of both the Fallen angels (Nephilim) and the "sons of God", but not wicked.
The wicked offspring of angels (both Nephilim and sons of God) became unclean spirits who like disembodied demons, roam the earth possessing insects animals and men seeking a return to some semblance or corporeality they had before they died in the flood:
21 And all flesh died that moved on the earth: birds and cattle and beasts and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth, and every man.
22 All in whose nostrils
was the breath of the spirit of life, all that
was on the dry
land, died.
23 So He destroyed all living things which were on the face of the ground: both man and cattle, creeping thing and bird of the air. They were destroyed from the earth. Only Noah and those who
were with him in the ark remained
alive. (Gen. 7:21-23 NKJ)
All the Nephilim died in the flood.
In Numbers 13:33 the cowardly spies exaggerate calling the sons of Anak (a human) "Nephilim", to win the argument against Caleb. But it is possible traces of angelic DNA was in some of the survivors with Noah. Only he was said to be "perfect in his generations" (Gen. 6:9)
The eventual extinction of all the "giants" in the OT imply there was a divine plan to expunge the deviant DNA from the planet.
The Nephilim: Satan's Fallen Angels 1 Now it came about, when men began to multiply on the face of the land, and daughters were born to them, 2 that the sons of God saw that the daughters of men were beautiful; and they took wives for themselves, whomever they chose. 3 Then the LORD said,
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