I am wondering why always three. Is it because of the Trinity do you think?
2006-11-28 10:39:04 · 9 answers · asked by Midge 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I think it was simply a practical matter. 3 days so nobody could deny he was really dead. But soon enough to not let the disciples disappear.
It's true many things seem to happen in 3's, and in 7's, and in 40's and in 10's. They are considered to be numbers of completion or perfection.
2006-11-28 10:42:12 · answer #1 · answered by Mr Ed 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Most cultures even the west have a system that after 3 days you are clinically dead, that's why they put a deceased person in the morgue for 3 days,as people have come too & woke up after 2 days. When Jesus rose the third day there was no denying that he was the Son of God, as He rose from the dead & no other prophet had done that !!
2006-11-28 19:34:48 · answer #2 · answered by ? 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I've been asking myself the same question. I am also wondering if maybe Jesus did not rise on the 3rd day. Maybe it was not Jesus but the devil pretending to be Jesus. Why did Mary initially mistake Jesus as the Gardener? I am a bit concerned about that. I want to believe it was Jesus.... what is the truth?
Why three days? Some scriptures say the following:
The number three carries with it a quite different thought. It reminds us of the three heavens - the inmost, the middle, and the lowest. (HH 29-39) There are three planes of affection and thought in every mind, more interior and more external. (DLW 236-241; AC 3691) There are also three degrees of structure in all things of the natural creation. For example, there are three atmospheres - the aura, the ether, and the air (DLW 184); the small fibers of muscle or nerve are gathered into bundles, and these again are gathered into the common protecting sheath. (DLW 190) The number, three suggests those degrees of structure, and therefore carries the idea of perfection or of completeness. (TCR 211; AE 532; AC 2788, 9825; SS 29) The tabernacle and temple were built with three parts - the most holy chamber, the holy chamber, and the court - to represent the three heavens and the three degrees of heavenly life in a man. (AC 9457 9 741; Chapter xli) It was commanded the Israelites, "Three times thou shalt keep a feast unto me in the year." (Exod. xxiii. 14) The three feasts represent the remembrance of the Lord at all times. (AC 2788) So Daniel "kneeled upon his knees three times a day." (Dan. Vi. 10) It represents complete and continual dependence upon the Lord. (AC 2788) "As Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale's belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth." (Matt. xii. 40) These words, and also the fact that the Lord was laid in the sepulcher until the third day, tell of the completeness with which the Lord endured all possible states of temptation, that He might bring new life into every human experience. (AC 2788, 4495; SS 29; AR 505; TCR 211; AE 532) Remember that three represents all, when you read that the Lord chose three disciples to be with Him in the house of Jairus, on the mountain of transfiguration, and in Gethsemane; and that He prayed three times in the garden. (Mark v. 37, ix. 2, xiv. 33-41; AE 820; TCR 211) Peter three times denied the Lord, and afterwards three times declared his love, expressing the complete failure of his faith and his thorough repentance. (Matt. xxvi. 74, 75; John xxi. 17; TCR 211; SS 29)
2006-11-28 18:44:23 · answer #3 · answered by Soul saviour 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because of the numerical symbolism of the number 3.
2006-11-28 18:41:28 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
And for their saying, 'We did slay the Messiah, Jesus, son of Mary, the Messenger of God;' whereas they slew him not, nor did they bring about his death upon the cross, but he was made to appear to them like one crucified; and those who differ therein are certainly in a state of doubt about it; they have no certain knowledge thereof, but only pursue a conjecture; and they did not arrive at a certainty concerning it
2006-11-28 18:43:22 · answer #5 · answered by MUHAMMAD 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
That is the number of days.
2006-11-28 18:41:51 · answer #6 · answered by robert p 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because that is the way God planned it. There is a reason- and maybe that could be! It is pretty cool to see how God works isnt it?
2006-11-28 18:40:40 · answer #7 · answered by Mandolyn Monkey Munch 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because there was a sale at macys
2006-11-28 19:39:07 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
yeah third day ... i think he just wnated to show up eary .. " what a ***"
2006-11-28 18:40:58 · answer #9 · answered by illogicalbeats 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋