Of all the things Jesus said to get himself in trouble with the religious leaders of his day (“Your sins are forgiven”, “Before Moses was, I am”, “The Son of Man is Lord of the Sabbath”, etc.) what he said in John 10:30 might have been the topper.
Surely there can’t be a confusion between hell and paradise. Those two realities are more different than quite possibly anything else we could imagine. Jesus either descended to hell or descended to paradise.
Those who are interested in New Testament Greek but don’t take up the challenge of learning it don’t do so because they don’t believe it’s doable. I, for sure, was one of those people.
If I say I hate asparagus, pretty much everyone knows what I mean. It means I really don't like it (which is absolutely true). Now watch what happens when I switch out asparagus for something else.
In all of my reading of articles and books and listening to different lectures on Revelation there stands out, at least two—let’s call them guides—toward a better reading and understanding of that most ominous book of the Bible.