Once the mortal body is dead you can't be reconciled?

Jeff Saunders said:

1 Pet 4:6 " Because it was for this that the good tidings were proclaimed to the dead, that though judged in flesh according to human beings they might live in spirit according to God"
This passage is talking about non believers who had died, but the good tidings, or gospel was proclaimed to them so that they might live in spirit according to God.
Why would God allow the preaching to the dead

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Paul is referring to the preaching to those who are now dead, but who were alive at the preaching.

Jeff Saunders said:

if they could not respond? Does God just tease them knowing that their fate is sealed?
Can the death of the mortal body not be the end of the story for those who never saw Jesus for who he really is?

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Jeff Saunders said:

You have to force that way of reading, the chapter before talks about Jesus going and preaching to those who were physically dead, 4:6 is just a continuation of the same idea.

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Jeff Saunders said:

your reading your tradition into the text

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No, that is in agreement with the rest of the NT (Heb 9:27).
"Spirits" is not used of human beings without qualifying terms being added, it is restricted to superatural beings.
The gospel is preached to people in this life who are now dead so that in Christ's death they may receive judgment now and avoid judgment to come.

Your reading is in contradiction of the rest of the NT.

Jeff Saunders said:

You sound Orthodox with that statement, are you Orthodox?

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I consider my understandings to be orthodox generally, heterodox on our particular count.

BelieveItOarKnot said:

Ultimately ALL salvation is after death OR, at the end, the experience of 1 Cor. 15's finale.

So what happens after death?

Romans 6:7
because anyone who has died has been set free from sin.

Anyone, not just believers.

Sin transpires in the body. That's why the body dies, Romans 8:10, Col. 3:3

Romans 11:26-32 shows that even enemies of the Gospel shall be saved regarding ALL of Israel.

Yes, salvation happens after death, even enemies of the Gospel. We have plenty of evidence to show it happens.

In any case it is sinners who are saved, 1 Tim. 1:15

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You have absolutely no evidence biblically or otherwise that salvation happens after death, Your group only has a few out of context verses to hang your erroneous belief on. You cannot take Romans 6:7 in a vacuum.

“What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin so that grace may increase? May it never be! How shall we who died to sin still live in it? Or do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus have been baptized into His death? Therefore we have been buried with Him through baptism into death, so that as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we too might walk in newness of life. For if we have become united with Him in the likeness of His death, certainly we shall also be in the likeness of His resurrection, knowing this, that our old self was crucified with Him, in order that our body of sin might be done away with, so that we would no longer be slaves to sin; for he who has died is freed from sin.”
‭‭Romans‬ ‭6‬:‭1‬-‭7‬ ‭NASB1995‬‬

The death here refers to dying in Christ after being buried with Him through baptism and become united in Him in the likeness of His death. His believers are no longer slaves to sin SO he who dies is free of sin. This verse does NOT help you.

The rest of the verses that you posted also does not help you at all. Paul does not teach that salvation is by the grace of God through faith (Eph. 2) and then teach that faith is not necessary because all will be saved at the end. What you are peddling is an illogical and unbiblical teaching that was deemed anathema during the 5th Ecumenical Council in 553ad.