Bismillah: Assalamo Alikum
Thanks Shamms for your reply.
I don't know why I feel that you are not smiling while replying my posts :D , please take it easy.
Quote:The fact that we aren't disputing if Christ was crucified or not is a good foundation on which to build.
as far as Islam is concerned, its position about this topic is crystal clear, he was <b>NOT CRUCIFIED</b>.
Quote:The Jews of that time understood his words because to the Jews, a half was a whole.
So you mean to say that the Jews at that time used to count 24 hours day as only part of the day, am I right? so Jesus entered the grave on <b>Friday night</b>, it is counted as <b>one day</b>, then he stayed the whole day of Saturday, and so it was also counted as another day, then the tomb was empty on <b>Sunday morning</b>, and yet it was also counted as a <b>whole day</b>? For the sake of discussion, I would agree, but how about the <b>THREE NIGHTS</b>? How they were calculated? <i>Please remember that on Sunday, Jesus was not found to be in his tomb early morning, so there was no night at all on that day to be counted!!!</i>
Plus, some other Christians explained clearly, that The Part-of-a-Day Theory Is Wrong.
(<b>their explanation, supported by biblical definitions of the word "day" as it was explained by God and Jesus</b>)
Please visit their website to get more details, they believe that Jesus indeed fulfilled that prophecy, but he was not crucified on Good Friday and was not raised on Sunday. <b>Whom to believe? God knows best.</b>
No 2. What is so miraculous for Jesus to stay in the grave for this period of time? for me the miracle is, that after all what Jesus have suffered before and during the alleged crucifixion, we expect him to die, if he died, then there is no miracle here, but if he didn’t, then that is the miracle/sign that he was talking about, because Jonah after he was thrown into the sea, eaten by a whale, remained for three days and three nights in the belly of that whale, we expect him to die, but he didn’t, and that is a miracle indeed, and what did Jesus say? For as Jonah was, so shall the son of man be. (<i>The Arabic translation of this verse is even clearer, it uses the word HAKAZA, which means <b>JUST LIKE THAT</b>, what happened to Jonah is going to happen to me, HAKAZA, just like that</i>)
Quote:Wel, the actions of the disciples of that time show and prove that Christ did indeed die. You stated the disciples wanted to bring the body of Christ down quickly because Sabbath was approaching and that they were taught it was not lawful to allow a dead body to hang during the Sabbath....you then quote the chapter and verse that teaches this. You then say that they prepared the body for burial....none of this would have been done had they believed their master still lived.
No, they didn't believe that he was alive, <b>they thought that he died</b>, but when he visited them in the upper room, he proved more than 15 times that he was alive and never experience death, but let us first solve the problem of Jonah before talking about whether Jesus really crucified and died or not.
Salam
Wael.