(August 2, 2015 at 1:04 pm)Pyrrho Wrote: Two things. First, Friday night to Sunday morning is barely more than one day, not three days. Christians seem mathematically challenged.
Second, there is little reason to believe (even if one takes the Bible seriously) that Jesus descended into hell. Here are a couple of articles that deal with this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrowing_of_Hell
http://www.compellingtruth.org/did-Jesus...-hell.html
The long and the short of it is that Christians disagree with each other on this point.
If Jesus wasn't tormented, tortured, bothered, harassed, inconvenienced, flayed, molested, beaten, raped, choked, strangled, maligned, or annoyed in Hell, I am further perplexed as to just what in hell (so to speak) was the big deal about His sacrifice.
It's ludicrous that Satan and Jesus lounged poolside, (even if the pool was filled with molten iron and throngs of the screaming damned) sipping Long Island Iced Teas until Jesus could go back to Golgotha and move the rock out of the way.
I'd wager to fulfill His earning of 144,000 souls from Satan, He had to suffer, and suffer mightily indeed. And the compressed time scale (noted correctly at much less than the math impaired 3 day claim) does not bolster any of the implications also noted above that some feel Jesus was on vacation or something. No, that compressed time scale demands violent and disturbing depravities and vile, agonizing infliction of the basest kind upon Jesus frail and sensitive body.
I might even go further and suggest that only saving 144,000 souls, despite the heinous horrors and vicious wounds meted out, implies Christ wasn't all that successful in wrangling much of a deal from Satan.
Maybe we need another, better Savior ?
One that knows shit about the art of making a deal.
The granting of a pardon is an imputation of guilt, and the acceptance a confession of it.
