Raze Hell

What does it mean to “raze” hell.  “Raise hell” and “raze hell” have two totally different meanings.

“Raise hell” according to the online Cambridge dictionary means “to behave in a way that is not controlled and that causes trouble”.

“Raze” according to Webster’s 1828 online dictionary means:

“1. To subvert from the foundation; to overthrow; to destroy; to demolish; as, to raze a city to the ground.

The royal hand that raz’d unhappy Troy.

2. To erase; to efface; to obliterate.

Razing the characters of your renown.

[In this sense, rase and erase are now used.]

3. To extirpate.

And raze their factions and their family.”

“Extirpate” according to an online search means “root out and destroy completely”, “the use of every legal measure to extirpate this horrible evil from the land”.

This is what Jesus did.  Jesus, legally, with his life, death and resurrection, legally fulfilled the demand for justice for the Fall of Man in the Garden of Eden.  It was where mankind turned from God in disobedience and fellowship was cut off.  There had to be a legal measure, a legal atonement.  Jesus provided that.  Because Jesus did that, this is now true.

John 1:12 But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name:

13 Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.

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