Where was Jesus for the three days between his death and resurrection?

[QUOTE="HeIsHere, post: 5046207, member: 316104"]Eternal can mean for an age. But I have not resolved all the conflicts in this position yet.[/QUOTE]
Yes the Bible can use that term in different ways depending on the application, however in terms of the state of the saved/unsaved person, this would be a good post that you should carefully examine.

https://christianchat.com/threads/w...is-death-and-resurrection.210204/post-5045898

1 Peter 2:24...He bore our sins in His body...

The dead are dormant, inactive, until they are called forth by Jesus. period. In Samuel's case, he was disturbed by a witch, and was not pleased about being woke up.

I will let R C Sproul explain since I am not quite sure if you do not know.

The atonement was made by the human nature of Christ.

Somehow people tend to think that this lessens the dignity or the value of the substitutionary act, as if we were somehow implicitly denying the deity of Christ. God forbid. It's the God-man Who dies, but death is something that is experienced only by the human nature, because the divine nature isn't capable of experiencing death.

This excerpt is taken from The Truth of the Cross by R.C. Sproul.

I don’t believe He was raised after … I believe He was raised exactly at 72 hours (according to Jewish reckoning)…. our God is precise. Of course the “exactly at 72 hours” is a personal belief based "on" (not in) scripture and how God does things with meticulous and astounding accuracies. Although scripturally… we can be relatively certain of the time frame

The only the word “after” in reference to when Jesus presented Himself to the spirits in prison. → (“He did not show himself to the imprisoned spirits until after he was raised.”)



A Sign

Mat 12:39 But he answered and said unto them, An evil and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign; and there shall no sign be given to it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas:

40 For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale's belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.

There are many scripture (aprox 19) that give reference to Jesus being raised the third day …. but this account in Matthew ….. Jesus states that He would be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth. That was the sign to the unbelieving scribes and Pharisees to whom He was speaking. And if that was not fulfilled then Jesus’s words were meaningless and the sign was not fulfilled.

Whenever the term day or night is used singularly in the Bible it can mean all or part of a day or evening (night). But the term night (evening) and day together always indicates a 24 hour period.

In Gen 1:5, 8,13,19,&23 …. God sets the standard for a full day… of which Jesus was fully aware of as noted in John 11:9.

Some try to qualify Jesus’s statement of 3 days and 3 nights with their own twisting to suffice religious beliefs with reference to an idiom … The problem is --- they are trying to qualify man’s tradition to fit their belief …but it doesn’t work that way. God sets the standard for truth …not man! …..Man can be right and they can be wrong…. the only way to verify what man states…. is to check it with what God says. My personal belief…. the things I was taught… are irrelevant if they do not line up with the Word of God …and for me…. the Word is the final authority for Truth.

Is this all the dead?

Do you know what hyperspaces are? Non-locality? Higher dimensional spaces and their implications?
The Eternal God inhabiting eternal infinite times and spaces all at once? Without limitation or duration?

I am not purporting doctrine. Not at all. Just pointing out nuances of this verse.

Jhn 3:13
And G2532 no man G3762 hath ascended up G305 to G1519 heaven, G3772 but G1508 he that came down G2597 from G1537 heaven, G3772 even the Son G5207 of man G444 which G3588 is G5607 in G1722 heaven. G377

https://www.blueletterbible.org/lexicon/g5607/kjv/tr/0-1/
The KJV translates Strong's G5607 in the following manner: being (36x), when ... was (8x), which is (17x), that is (8x), not translated (10x), miscellaneous (81x).

Speech: Verb
Tense: Present
Voice: (No voice stated)
Mood: Participle
Case: Nominative
Number: Singular
Gender: Masculine
Definition of "Present"
Represents a simple statement of fact or reality viewed as occurring in actual time. In most cases this corresponds directly with the English present tense. Some phrases which might be rendered as past tense in English will often occur in the present tense in Greek. These are termed "historical presents," and such occurrences dramatize the event described as if the reader were there watching the event occur. Some English translations render such historical presents in the English past tense, while others permit the tense to remain in the present.

Yes. No dead are 'awake,' unless called forth by the Lord. Not even those referred to in any 'visions.' Jesus is the only One who could raise Himself from death.

No one is denying scripture, only your application of it.

Yes God alone has immortality .... read it in context of all of scripture and note that immortality and eternal life are two separate concepts in scripture.

1 Peter 2:24 Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.

So, you believe Jesus suffered annihilation for three days and three nights?

Absolutely God is immortal. Nobody denies this.

Now tell us, how does that detract from His eternal power to either forgive/bless with eternal life (to which you evidently agree) or render condemnation to eternal punishment/torment (to which you evidently DO NOT agree)?

Both of these conditions are eminently supported by Scripture. The latter so overwhelmingly as to annihilate your fanciful objections.

Do you mean to say that sleep is NOT a metaphor for watchful wakeful awareness as some claim? .

Please do not ask me why any would make such a claim. They make no sense.

PS~ I like your "pondering this over coffee" .

Except for the fact I have studied this from all sides with an open mind since I am not emotionally invested, many times, have you?

It does not fit, it simply does not.

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● Gen 2:7 . . The Lord God formed man of dust from the ground, and
breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being.

The divine process that gave the first man life and existence is not all that
different from the process that restored Jesus' crucified dead body to life.

I should think that if someone can believe in the creation of Man, then
believing in Jesus' resurrection would be even easier to accept 'cause God
had to first construct a body for Adam whereas Jesus' body was completed;
all set to go, ready and waiting in the tomb.

And Jesus' soul was already in existence too. So it was a simple matter for
God to recombine Jesus' principal elements in order to bring him back from
death per Ps 16:8-10 & Acts 2:25-31.
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I am not inclined to making claims about myself and boasting as some
do about how long and how hard and in what state they have studied.

Sure, it does not fit your mind set. That does not mean it is wrong.

No amount of proofs given will change a closed mind.

Just stating a fact, there are many scriptural topics I have not studied and which I do not have a firm understanding.

That you see this as a boast is your projection onto me.

This thread is now toxic and I made New Years resolution.
Moving on.

If you have not seen the boasting in this very thread and many others as well I do not know what to say.

You take it personally because you are emotionally invested despite your claim to the contrary.

Moving on? I see people say that often, but they don't mean it at all.