Do you have to believe Jesus rose from the dead specifically on the third day to be saved?
- Thread starter LeeLoving
- Start date
-
Christian Chat is a moderated online Christian community allowing Christians around the world to fellowship with each other in real time chat via webcam, voice, and text, with the Christian Chat app. You can also start or participate in a Bible-based discussion here in the Christian Chat Forums, where members can also share with each other their own videos, pictures, or favorite Christian music.
If you are a Christian and need encouragement and fellowship, we're here for you! If you are not a Christian but interested in knowing more about Jesus our Lord, you're also welcome! Want to know what the Bible says, and how you can apply it to your life? Join us!
To make new Christian friends now around the world, click here to join Christian Chat.
What about it is giving you trouble? Why can't you say confidently He rose on the third day?
You might have ocd and perfectionism. You are obsessing, unnecessarily, about having to understanding perfectly in order to be saved.
Which part gives you trouble? The fact that Jesus resurrected, or that it on/after three days?
If the latter, perhaps you would do well to reconsider which day you believe He was crucified.
Many hold to the view that it was Friday. Others, for good reasons, do not.
If the latter, perhaps you would do well to reconsider which day you believe He was crucified.
Many hold to the view that it was Friday. Others, for good reasons, do not.
Which verse?
I think it might just be reading retention and then being able to confidently believe/say it.
It's just the detail of it being three days that gives me trouble. I've had trouble with things like this in the past if I'm not mistaken, just a small detail that I can't fully say with confidence is true because for some reason I don't fully take it in.
What day do you believe Jesus died on the cross and was buried/entombed?
Is it because Friday to Sunday doesn't add up for you, or... ?
I don't know. I have no problem with him rising again on the third day, that's what it says in 1 Corinthians 15, it just doesn't register with me for some reason.
It's verse 4.
Like you can't remember that the Lord rose on the third day? You can use various methods to remember it. For example, make a pin or button that says that the Lord rose on the third day (Hallelujah!) and wear it. You can get really creative with that!
This ?
“For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; and that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures:”
1 Corinthians 15:3-4 KJV
this is what the gospel declared Jesus was born lived as a man preached the gospel died for mankind’s sins and rose again the third day
all Paul is doing is witnessing that the gospel is true
jesus rising in the third day is fulfilment if a prophetic figure in the law when God appeared the third day
“And it came to pass on the third day in the morning, that there were thunders and lightnings, and a thick cloud upon the mount, and the voice of the trumpet exceeding loud; so that all the people that was in the camp trembled. And mount Sinai was altogether on a smoke, because the LORD descended upon it in fire: and the smoke thereof ascended as the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mount quaked greatly.”
Exodus 19:16, 18 KJV
And purification rites for dead bodies
“He that toucheth the dead body of any man shall be unclean seven days. He shall purify himself with it on the third day, and on the seventh day he shall be clean: but if he purify not himself the third day, then the seventh day he shall not be clean.”
Numbers 19:11-12
Do you not believe he rose from the dead ? Or is it just the third day part you’re struggling with ? It seems like if someone believes he rose from the dead the third day part wouldnt be the issue that’s hard to believe
everything Jesus did and what happened in the gospel is based on what the prophets said would happen like being raised up in the third day
I wouldn't call it a salvation issue. We don't have to have perfect understanding or comprehension of God's word to be saved, or else no one could be save. Just keep holding on to your faith in Christ and walk faithfully in what you do know; in time He'll help you understand. If you're having doubt about something in God's word it doesn't mean you're not saved; it just means you're working things out in your own mind.
1 Corinthians 15:4 simply says, that He was buried, that He was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures,
If you read starting from the beginning of the chapter you might see where I'm coming from.
Do you doubt other resurrections, either performed by Jesus or another prophet/disciple?
Lazarus was raised after being dead for four days, with his body stinking from rot.
I don't doubt any of the resurrections... I'm just having trouble taking in that it happened on the third day. Like it doesn't stick with me for some reason so I don't know if I really believe it. Maybe I do? It's just something I'm concerned about since whenever it comes up I have trouble with it, but like I wrote before I think it might be a reading retention problem. Like I've read it, but I have to reread it to remind myself that it's true, sort of.
Genesis
1:11 And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.
1:12 And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
1:13 And the evening and the morning were the third day.
Jesus is the first fruit.Perhaps the third day is also to commemorate God's creation of fruit on the third day.
So just believe it. It is not a big deal. But Christ Himself said that there would be three days and three nights between the crucifixion and the resurrection. What more do do you want? By that reckoning (and that the Hebrew day begins and ends at sunset) His crucifixion would have been on Wednesday, not Friday.
that is so important to keep in mind- the Jews kept their days from twilight till twilight, not midnight to midnight..