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    The Messiah and the 3 days and 3 nights timeframe of Matthew 12:40?

    I think in Jewish thought that a body needed to be dead for at least 3 days to be considered legally dead. So, if that was the scribes' and Pharisees' understanding, then that might be the answer as to why 3 days and 3 nights was specified. BTW, any particular reason for adding an "s" at the...
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    The Messiah and the 3 days and 3 nights timeframe of Matthew 12:40?

    That could very well be close to the answer.
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    The Messiah and the 3 days and 3 nights timeframe of Matthew 12:40?

    But why did the Messiah choose 3 daytimes and 3 night times in the heart of the earth to be the sign that the scribes and Pharisees were asking Him for? Was there something significant about that particular length of time?
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    The Messiah and the 3 days and 3 nights timeframe of Matthew 12:40?

    I don't see what that has to do with the OP. The scribes and Pharisees asked the Messiah for a sign. What do you think they wanted the sign to show or prove?
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    The Messiah and the 3 days and 3 nights timeframe of Matthew 12:40?

    When responding to the Pharisees' request for a sign from the Messiah, why do you suppose He made the specific point that He would be in the heart of the earth for 3 days and 3 nights? Is there something meaningful about that time period?
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    I don't find belief to be volitional and I don't understand why the majority does

    How is it that you don't know if that was your implication?
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    I don't find belief to be volitional and I don't understand why the majority does

    Is there any implication in that question that you think beliefs can be obtained by simply consciously engendering them?
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    I don't find belief to be volitional and I don't understand why the majority does

    I was merely commenting on the relevance of your response to the specific question from Lucian. It would also be a question for a different issue.
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    I don't find belief to be volitional and I don't understand why the majority does

    I don't see how your reasons show what a person has to lose by accepting Jesus as the Messiah?
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    Noah's flood

    Jazzy, re: "As the text recounts, God saw wickedness within humans and sent a global inundation. Because Noah was righteous, God instructed him to build an ark for his family and save two of every beast, bird and creeping thing." Actually, verse 7:2 is more specific - it was 2 each of every...
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    Common Figure of Speech?

    You think incorrectly. That's an issue for a different topic.
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    Common Figure of Speech?

    To what are you referring by "it". That's what I'm doing.
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    Common Figure of Speech?

    Well, the issue of the topic is the commonality of saying that a daytime or a night time would be involved with an event when no part of a daytime or no part of a night time could be. I'm not really familiar with any studies which address that.
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    Common Figure of Speech?

    And remember, the "someone new" needs to be someone who believes the crucifixion took place on the 6th day of the week with a 1st day of the week resurrection, and who thinks that the "heart of the earth" is referring to the tomb, and who tries to explain the lack of a 3rd night by saying that...
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    I don't find belief to be volitional and I don't understand why the majority does

    Sorry, when you said that - "In life, there are all sorts of erroneous beliefs, and no one here is saying that the Holy Spirit placed them into anybody's mind" - I glossed over the word erroneous. And as usual in forums, the topic goes off topic at some point, sometimes as early the first...
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    Common Figure of Speech?

    Maybe someone new visiting this topic may know of examples.
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    Jokes

    Lum - Where is the first cigarette mentioned in the Bible? Abner - I don't know. Lum - In Genesis where it says that Rebekah lit off a camel.
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    Common Figure of Speech?

    That would be an issue for a different topic. Maybe you might start one.
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    Common Figure of Speech?

    But they weren't the examples requested.
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    I don't find belief to be volitional and I don't understand why the majority does

    It wasn't. At least not if by "Christian Faith" you meant explaining what it is. Josiah wrote -It's not. It is the gift of God. The Holy Spirit does it. I assumed by "it" that he was referring to belief/faith, and that it is a gift which is given and not something that a person engenders...
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