Hello Everyone,
Bishop Spong (ret.) in his latest newletter speaks to the time
frame between the burial of Jesus and his Resurrection. The gest is
- Take three days literally, NOT. Three days like 60% of the gospels
is symbolic and spiritual. Not newspaper re****ting and therefore
merely physical. What do you expect when the hero of the gospels
never taught them (the disciples) anything except he used a
parable.
I think the three-day symbol is just that, a symbol. On
three occasions,
Mark has Jesus predict his resurrection "after three
days." Matthew and
Luke, both of whom have Mark in front of them as they
write, change
Mark's word "after" to "on." "After three days" and "on
the third day"
do not give us the same day. So there is a dancing, not
firm, quality
to the use of the phrase "three days" even in
the gospels themselves. J.S. Spong
Any Christian, of any stripe, could do a lot worse than read any of
the writings
of Bishop John Spong . Maybe start with Rescuing the Bible from
Fundamentalism: A Bishop Rethinks the Meaning of Scripture.
Muddyfeet
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