Holy Saturday: Christ descends in to Hell and commences to redecorate:
Yes. The reference is 1 Peter 3:19. This is the basis for purgatory and other lore that funded the Vatican.
1 Peter 3:19 After being made alive, he went and made proclamation to the imprisoned spirits— 20 to those who were disobedient long ago when God waited patiently in the days of Noah while the ark was being built. In it only a few people, eight in all, were saved through water,
He calls everyone individually as God did with with Samuel and Jesus with Saul of Tarsus. He even went after these lost souls. You don't come to Jesus. He comes to you. Heaven is your defacto home. You have no power to accept it because it is already yours, given to you. Your only power is to deny it.
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