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wobble

Why 3 days ? Jayhoover was busy hoovering the Pleiedes. " Must get things tidy for when JC whooshes up here in 40 days time"

(John 2:18-22) 18 Therefore, in answer, the Jews said to him: “What sign have you to show us, since you are doing these things?” 19 In answer Jesus said to them: “Break down this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.” 20 Therefore the Jews said: “This temple was built in forty-six years, and will you raise it up in three days?” 21 But he was talking about the temple of his body. 22 When, though, he was raised up from the dead, his disciples called to mind that he used to say this; and they believed the Scripture and the saying that Jesus said.

Ding

If he came back in three hours instead of three days, it would give more credence to the theory that he only appeared to be dead but later revived.

Lore

But he was talking about the temple of his body.

In the Bible “three days” does not necessarily mean three full days

I didnt mean torched I ment when he was on the stake and died

I have decided that figurative speech should NOT exist. End of discussion. We'll all be better off.

Rocky_Girl

@Lore - I agree. Anyone can pick and choose whatever vague comment they want, attach it to a random event and declare it as prophecy fulfilled. It drives me crazy!

tec

Jonah 1:17 says that Jonah was in the belly of the fish for three days and three nights.

'sign of Jonah'

Peace,

Tammy

ProdigalSon

It's a metaphor that symbolizes the perpetual renewal of life in the Universe. SON = SUN. Christ is an energy that enters our world through the sun. The sun "dies" right above the Southern Cross, a constellation of stars in the Southern Hemisphere in the shape of a cross, on December 21st of every year. It appears to be "dead" for 3 days before it begins its return to the northern hemisphere on December 25th. Since the people who made up these allegories lived in the Northern Hemisphere, those in the South got shafted.

Londo111

If one views the Law as a shadow of the things to come regarding the Christ:

It ties to the Festival of Unleavened Bread. On Nissan 14 was the Passover (seen as symbolic of when Christ offers his life as the passover Lamb), Nissan 15 is a Sabbath not matter what day it falls upon (seen as symbolic when Christ is completly at rest in death). Nissan 16 is the offering of the firstfruits of the barley harvest...the firstfruits of all firstfruit offerings, symbolic of Christ being the firstfruit of those who rise from the dead.

As to what I personally believe, as I've said many a time, the jury is still out. I can see likely the early Christians, reading the Torah, and seeing symbols of him everywhere, symbols that arise from the Jungian collective unconcious. Humankind seems hardwired to want stories of a savior to die and be transformed. These stories resonate throughout humanities myths, religions, and fiction. Of all of them, the story of Jesus coming to earth, drying, being reborn seems to resonate like no other in history. Tolkien's take on this way, 'Yes, the pagans had these stories of gods coming to earth as humans and dying, but they pointed to Christ'.

One could see the story on Jonah as part of the Monomyth (as Joseph Campbell called it). He has part of the classic archetype. He is a reluctant hero...even performing the 'Refusal of the Call' (which reluctant Moses alway does at first). Jonah dies to the world for all purposes when swallowed by the fish. Then when the fish vomits him up, he is 'reborn', in that he changes his course, and goes to Nineveh, preaches to them, and the people change their ways and are saved.

Therefore, any early Christian reading this, would see the story of Jesus as a Greater Jonah...or see Jesus as a Greater Moses, and so forth. In Jungian thought, that is because ALL these stem from the same stock of symbols that we humans carry in our unconcious.

undercover

How is it that Luke Skywalker doesn't remember his mother at all, yet Princess Leia says she remembers her mother, 'she died when I was very young'? They are twins whose mother died right after giving birth.

tec

Oh OH!! I can answer that UC :)

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