Chris was death, also known as "sleeping".

Unaware of anthing. Completely death, really death, like Lazarus, his friend was, gone, no where, no any where but at the mercy of God the father.

The father had a decision to make..

To bring his son back alive and accept a world of sin but redeeming sin in the process or clean up the univers of sin and forget his son cuase sin was to big to bear!!!

To forgive sin or not to forgive, that was God's father dilema.

To finally read the universe of sin, once and for all, but loosing his son in the process

OR

bringing his son back alive AND humanity's hope WHILE keeing sin in the world until his second comming.

GOD DID NOT HAD TO BRING HIS SON BACK TO LIFE.

GOD WAS NOT FORCED NOR REQUIRED TO DO SO.

HE DID IT ONLY BECAUSE OF LOVE FOR HIS SON was bigger than his hate for SIN.

Christ did not preach anyone while death. Christ was as death as we will be if we do not repent and accept Christ as the Lord.

1 Peter 3:18-20 

He was put to death in the body but made alive by the Spirit, ¹⁹through whom also he went and preached to the spirits in prison ²⁰who disobeyed long ago when God waited patiently in the days of Noah while the ark was being built.

Bad Interpretation, Joe, we need to use the original Greek translation to understand the correct interpretation. Use YLT version better.

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1 PETER 3:18-20

Read on its own, nothing in this pa**age describes a descent into hell, nor is there any indication that the "spirits now in prison" refers to Old Testament believers. First, I would point out that v. 18 describes Jesus’ victory over death, and the proclamation of v. 19 is best understood as a proclamation of His victory, not a gospel presentation. Peter does NOT use the term "preach the gospel" (euangelizein; see 1 Pet 1:12, 25; 4:6) here. Instead, he uses a much more general word for making a proclamation (kerussein). Nothing here indicates that the proclamation has the purpose of saving anyone. It is also problematic to suggest that people in Hades (or hell) have the opportunity to make a decision regarding their salvation. Jesus teaches that there is a fixed chasm between Hades and heaven preventing any further chance of salvation after death (Luke 16:26—and note that Abraham is described as being on the "saved" side of the chasm, though this would precede Jesus’ "descent into hell" to preach to him).

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Christ died in the tomb, he was not alive.

People do not want to admit that they will certainly die.

The serpent said to the woman, "You surely will not die!"

and we still believe that lie !!!