08-08-2008, 07:09 PM
ograabe Wrote:August 8, 2008
Dear Paul:
Your interlinear of Mark 16:2 reads: "They came to the cemetery as the sun was rising at early morning of the first day tof the week." That doesn't seem to tell us anything about exactly how much earlier or when the resurrection occurred.
Likewise Mark 16:9 has "At early morning of the first of the week he had risen...." That seems to be relating an event that had already occurred. Hence, we apparently cannot be certain from the text exactly when the resurrection occurred. It may have been on Saturday, but the women waited until after the sabbath to visit the tomb.
Am I missing something here?
Best regards,
Otto
Shlama Akhi Otto,
Not really missing anything at all, it's more of you are open to an argument from silence. That's not necessarily a bad thing. But it is an argument from silence.
He may have risen on Saturday, or ..... he may have risen in the 10-12 hours of Sunday darkness before the dawn when they visited the tomb. Remember that Sunday began when the sun went down Sabbath evening. Say, for the sake of argument, 9PM Saturday our reckoning today in the U.S.A. Back then, that would have been considered Sunday morning. To us, Sunday morning begins the second after 11:59:59 PM on Saturday night. Back then, it was a couple of hours earlier.
So He could have arisen on what we, today, call "Saturday night". Let's say 11:30 PM on Saturday.
BUT, and this is the key, that is considered to be Sunday, not Saturday, according to the Semitic keeping of time.
I think if God wanted us to know about a Sabbath resurrection, the scriptures would have been a little clearer about it. There's no compelling reason to believe that He arose on Saturday (before Sundown, say at 6 PM). It's an argument from silence.
+Shamasha Paul