Jesus and Jonah

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Glory to God, peace on earth, goodwill to all.


Salam Wael :peace:


I briefly skimmed through all the posts, however, due to time constraints (I'm still on vacation), I'll only be able to provide a quick answer to your original question & of course it's from a Catholic Christian perspective (my theology teacher touched on this topic not so long ago) :)

Now I am asking, <b>how many days and how many nights did he stay in the tomb?</b>


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RIGHT… they are only <b>TWO NIGHTS and A DAY</b>. but what the prophecy says? THREE DAYS AND THREE NIGHTS.


Now I am asking another simple question, <b>are 3 and 3 is same as 2 and 1?</b> Of course there is something wrong here and every Christian should re arrange his thoughts and figure out what went wrong with their scriptures.


It is either Jesus was lying or fooling the Jews by the words he uttered (<b>we Muslims don't believe that he is a lair</b>), or that the books that you are reading have got <b>serious problem</b>.

The "three days" aren't reckoned the way we count days (ie three 24 hour periods). The term "three days" in Biblical usage has the word "day" referring to a period of light or a period of dark.


When Our Lord died the sun was blackened (that's one day).


Then he was placed in the tomb on the Friday (while it was still dark) then Saturday (daytime) came (that's another day).


Then Saturday night came (that's another day).


By dawn on Sunday Our Lord was raised - Hence He rose on the Sunday.


St. Peter tells us that during the "3 days" Our Lord "preached to the souls in prison" (ie Abraham's bosom).

We ask Allah, the Almighty God to accept our good deeds and intentions for writing this article, and forgive us if any of what we have said was wrong. Ameen.

May Christ have mercy on us all, Wael.


Ramadan Karem :)


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