Article 3
Today's article involves a very short Article of Religion (No. 3): III. Of the going down of Christ into Hell As Christ died for us, and was buried, so also is it to be believed, that he went down into Hell. This is affirming the Apostles' Creed (... Suffered under Pontius Pilate Was crucified, dead, and buried; He descended into hell ; The third day he rose again from the dead) and the doctrine of the Harrowing of Hell. The Nicene Creed actually makes no reference to Jesus descending to the Dead ( he suffered death and was buried. On the third day he rose again in accordance with the Scriptures...) This is actually been in the news of late in American Evangelical Christian circles. John Piper, the nearest thing to a demi-God to many Evangelical pastors, recently got into a theological squabble over the fact that he thinks the Apostles' Creed is wrong on this count and that he doesn't say that part of the creed when it is r...