08-14-2008, 02:45 PM
markt Wrote:Dear Paul, with reference to your many statements that it matters not the time spent in the tomb, the scriptures (even the Peshitta disagree). To quote this please look at Mattai 27:63 where Yeshua said that He would rise AFTER the 3rd day. If this is evidence enough I leave it to you to accept (or not). As you often state, 'it's fact'. By the way, sorry for the 'ultra-literal interpretation of scripture'.
Shalom,
Mark
Dear Mark,
Then why, one verse later (27:64), are the guards requested to watch the tomb only until the third day? Why didn't they want to guard it until the fourth day?
Additionally, as mentioned before in this thread, Mattai 16:21 explicitly states:
"wal'yoma da'tlatha ne'qum" (and on the THIRD day He would rise)
If He was to rise on the THIRD day, then, like Esther, there's no way 3 sunrises and 3 sunsets would occur.
You can be as ultra-literalist as you like, the scriptures say that he was risen on Sunday, and make no mention of a Sabbath resurrection. No matter how badly you want a Saturday resurrection, there is simply no scriptural reference to it. Period.
+Shamasha Paul