Bismillah: Assalamo Alikum Hadji.
Long time no see brother, trust all well insh a Allah.
I just wanted to add one comment on part of what you have said:
Quote:AlShamms, I get your point about the three days not being twenty-four hours. Your argument is logical in my opinion,
Brother, I can see no logic at all in this point, let us analyze together insh a Allah.
If the Jews considered part of the day to be a whole day, then its fine, so let us count the time period in which Jesus stayed in his tomb according to that theory, we will try to <b>stretch the days and nights </b> as much as we can, and see whether Jesus really fulfill that prophecy or not.
<b>FRIDAY</b>: he entered the grave <b>IN THE NIGHT</b> , or <b>AFTER SUNSET </b> ( we may say <b>THAT IS ONE DAY AND ONE NIGHT
</b>)
<b>SATURDAY</b>: he is still in his grave the <b>WHOLE DAY AND NIGHT </b> (THAT IS<b> ONE DAY AND ONE NIGHT
</b>)
<b>SUNDAY</b>:<b> MORNING
, </b> he is not in his grave at all (<b>WE MAY SAY THAT THIS IS ONE DAY</b>)
So please count with me the total days and nights?
That's right, it comes up to <b>THREE DAYS AND TWO NIGHTS</b>, but Jesus said, <b>THREE AND THREE
</b>. So there is no way that anybody could help us to count the exact period of days and nights as mentioned by Jesus.
Plus, I was pointing out the importance of the <b>ONLY miracle </b> that Jesus gave to the Jews to prove that he was the Messiah, even if Jesus stayed in his grave for 3 days and 3 nights, what is so great about that? But as far as logic is concerned, we may say, that if a person had to die after all that torture and nailing to the cross but yet he didn't die, <b>that is the miracle</b>, Jesus was not talking about the time period which is not miracle at all in my opinion.
No. 1- If the Christians will insist that Jesus died for three days and three nights, then we can strongly say that <b>he didn't fulfill the prophecy of Jonah </b> who was <b>alive</b> for three days and three nights in the belly of the whale.
No. 2- If they will insist that Jesus was referring to the time factor, well, we have already proved that even the "<b>time factor/ SIGN/MIRACLE</b>" <b>was not really fulfilled.</b>
Am i making any sense insh a Allah? :)
Salam
Wael