Matt-ch 12:40 "For, as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the Fish, so will the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth". This is supposed to be when Jesus was in the tomb for 3 days and 3 nights - but was it 3 days and 3 nights? Let's count: Friday night is 1 night, Saturday is 1 day, Saturday night is 1 night, Sunday morning he was out of the tomb. We have 2 nights and 1 day, not three days and three nights. If, however, you want to tell me Friday, Saturday, Sunday are the three days, I will add Friday night and Saturday night - this makes 3 days, but only 2 nights. No way out. What do you think? But please don't tell me the Jews consider 3 days and 3 nights as 3 days or some other funny period of time. Let's stick to the facts.
2006-08-29 07:28:48 · 15 answers · asked by hakim300 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
(Jonah prayed unto the lord His God out of the fish`s Belly? jonah 2:1)he was a live if Jonah was alive for three days and three nights,then Jesus also ought to have been alive in the tomb as he himself had fortold!but christianity hangs on the flimsy thred of the ''death''of Jesus for its salvation.So it has to answer that Jesus was DEAD for three days and three nights.the contradiction betwen his obvious.Jonah ALIVE Jesus DEAD very unlike Jonah!Jesus had said LIKE JONAH not UNLIKE JONAH.if this is thrue then according to his own test Jesus is not the THRUE Messiah of the Jews.if the gospel record is genuine then how can we blame yhe Jews for rejecting ''Christ''. ps: instead of good friday it should be good wednesday.
2006-08-29 10:01:14 · update #1
Maybe you want to do some research...
The Jews refered to any portion of a day as a "day and a night." While this might not make sense to us, it doesn't have to. If today was Wednesday, and someone said, "See you next Friday!" we would know that he didn't really mean the very next Friday occuring two days later, but a week and two days. However, if you translate that into another language 2,000 years from now, it might not make any sense to them, either.
That IS the facts. Just because you don't want to accept it doesn't make it invalid. Sorry, you don't get to decide how the Jews 2,000 years ago referred to time.
The only argument you could possible make for any of this is that Christ was not really crucified on Friday, and that we, over the 2 millenia, have made a mistake in figuring out what happened on which days of the proceeding week. The Bible does not acctually say that the crucifixion occured Friday. That was based on scholars counting backward from Sunday. So, even if you are right that a day and a night has to be what we consider a day and a night, all you have proven is that Christ was crudified on Thursday.
2006-08-29 07:43:41 · answer #1 · answered by Serving Jesus 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
This phrase you quote here, is a paraphrase from Jonah 2:1, it is only an approximation of the time between the death and resurrection of Christ. A point is being made of something that will happen, the details are themselves inconsequential regarding how it will happen, but the bottom line is that it did happened!If you check Luke 11: 29 the same event is described in a general way but it leaves out the time frame, compare it to Mark 9:30-32 or Mark 10: 34, where it states that He will be resurrected in three days, no mention of nights here, same with Luke 18: 33. Trying to breakdown in specifics, or statistically this event is grasping for straws, trying to compare verses and find that it does not matches what another of the apostles may writes is no prove at all that this did not took place. The bible is filled with verses that you cannot pretend to match 100% all the time due to each individuals authors viewpoint. One may include something another one leaves out, this does not alters the substance or ultimate meaning of the event.
2006-08-29 15:02:56 · answer #2 · answered by nitropr45 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Periods of time in the Bible are all a little fuzzy and metaphorical. Like the Earth being created in 7 days... that could actually mean 7 million years. Many religious traditions have a myth of a heroic person going away for 3 days/nights and then being resurrected. So maybe it was just a convenient number. Anyway, they didn't call the days by the names we call them by now, so who knows what day of the week Jesus was actually executed on. Or if he was at all - or if the whole thing is a bedtime story. There's a book called "The Jesus Conspiracy" that has a really interesting take on it all...
2006-08-29 14:48:47 · answer #3 · answered by kaligirl 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you really researched your question instead of trying to get people to argue with you you would know that no where does it say that it was sunday morning when jesus came out of the tomb besides if you know your history sabbath was from sundown on friday night to sundown on saturday night so what else decrpencies will you try to find in the bible you still evade the truth which was it doesn't matter when he arose but the fact that he did .It wouldn't matter if God himself told you you will still look for a way to not be held acountable for your actions but know you can't get away from that no matter how hard you try!! so Just repent and start a real relationship with a real God and quit looking for ways out
2006-08-29 14:56:23 · answer #4 · answered by livingforhim2006 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Then explain the account of Josephus the Jew a historian of Judah who wrote " in all of time there was not tomb that was as guarded as that of the man Jesus who was crucified." There might be a variation of the three days thingy though.
2006-08-29 14:41:25 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Jesus certainly didn't think it was fiction. I doubt when the nails were being driven into his hands he thought well since this isn't really happening.....
O his love for you is so great. I love you as well You cannot begin to fathom nor can I how much he loves human beings. But he did try and give you a glimpse when he died for you. Start with that
Your friend,
mmmk92
2006-08-29 17:50:45 · answer #6 · answered by mmmk92 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Fiction.
The Jesus Puzzle
http://home.ca.inter.net/oblio/home.htm
2006-08-29 14:33:25 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Perhaps they consider the night of the betrayal as one night (thursday night), because Judas betrayed Jesus, basically sending him to the tomb. Who knows.
2006-08-29 14:38:51 · answer #8 · answered by GLSigma3 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This came from the heretics that traveled the area about 600 years after the death of Jesus.
wonder how it got into Islam???
There is nothing that supports this wild accusation.
Yet we hear it over and over and over, it is a straw for Muslims to grasp at.
Peace!
2006-08-29 14:42:40 · answer #9 · answered by C 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The crucifixion is probably one of the best documented events in history, with volumes from both sides of issue written by contemporaries of the day...
2006-08-29 14:39:06 · answer #10 · answered by cowboymanhrsetrnr 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋