There's a few things going on here -- the Bible is great in that way, in that it's often operating at different levels. It speaks to us in human terms, teaching us how to live among one another in peace, with grace -- this is the horizontal aspect. It also helps us understand how we relate to God -- this is the vertical aspect. As with everything in the Bible, these two aspects intersect most fully at the cross, where Jesus' perfect humanity and the fullness of his divinity combine to make him the one perfect sacrifice that enables him to bring us to God -- his human death brought us to life.
Peter also talks about Jesus going and proclaiming to the spirits in prison, referring to those who have died beforehand. You may have a lot of questions here. I, also, have some questions. You may wonder exactly what happened. I, too, wonder what happened. I don't have a good answer. I don't know that we do. But what we can say is that Jesus' sacrificial death is likely far more dynamic than we can understand. Death is tearing apart the fabric of creation, and God is working to sew those back together, to restore us to life, and perhaps that works in many different directions and likely in ways we don't fully understand.
I don't know what happened, but I give thanks that we worship a God who makes the effort to save, to liberate, to bring us into the same heaven where we were formerly unworthy to go!
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