If you claim Jesus was able to make accurate prophecies, how about this?

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Jesus claimed that he would be dead ("in the earth") three days and three nights. Matthew 12:40

But his trial and execution were on Friday afternoon; and rather early Sunday morning he supposedly came back to life and started walking around.

That's half a day Friday, all day Saturday, and not even half of Sunday. So Friday night and Saturday night.

Anyway you try to stretch it it's only two nights.

Any church people want to explain that one?
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ANYWAY YOU STRETCH IT IT'S ONLY TWO NIGHTS.
Jesus said three nights.
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nice one mate i wanna see the comebacks to this one
i bet one them is gunna be "yes but i beilive in jesus therefore i am right "
hehe
 
Jesus didn't say 3 day and 3 nights, do your sums. Friday + Saturday + Sunday = 3 days, there, now give me my 10 points.
 
we dont know if that was exactly the day he came back, and plus jesus does unexpected things, because man cant know everything.
 
That's just one of the myriad of problems with the Jesus story -- and religion in general. But maybe it's metaphorical, like the creation-of-the-world-in-six-days idea. Maybe it's not meant to be taken literally.

But of course the ones who are noisiest about the bible's infallibility are those who take it the most literally. Makes perfect sense, doesn't it?
 
How do you keep an idea and a man alive to inspire people and cause fear in your enemies? Give him superpowers, call him the son of God and bring him back from the dead.

Its a no brainer
 
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WAS JESUS REALLY THREE DAYS AND THREE NIGHTS IN THE HEART OF THE EARTH?
Matthew reports Jesus as saying, “As Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the whale (“sea monster,” RV marg.), so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth” (12:40). According to the commonly accepted tradition of the church Jesus was crucified on Friday, dying at 3:00 p.m., or somewhere between 3:00 p.m. and sundown, and was raised from the dead very early in the morning of the following Sunday. Many readers of the Bible are puzzled to know how the interval between late Friday afternoon and early Sunday morning can be figured out to be three days and three nights. It seems rather to be two nights, one day and a very small portion of another day.
The solution of this apparent difficulty proposed by many commentators is that “a day and a night” is simply another way of saying “a day,” and that the ancient Jews reckoned a fraction of a day as a whole day, so they say there was a part of Friday (a very small part), or a day and a night; all of Saturday, another day, or a day and a night; part of Sunday (a very small part), another day, or a day and a night.
There are many persons whom this solution does not altogether satisfy, and the writer confesses it does not satisfy him at all. It seems to him to be a makeshifts very weak makeshift.
Is there any solution that is altogether satisfactory? There is.
The first fact to be noticed in the proper solution is that the Bible nowhere says or implies that Jesus was crucified and died on Friday. It is said that Jesus was crucified on “the day before the sabbath” (Mark 15:42). As the Jewish weekly Sabbath came on Saturday, beginning at Sunset the evening before, the conclusion is naturally drawn that as Jesus was crucified the day before the Sabbath He must have been crucified on Friday. But it is a well-known fact, to which the Bible bears abundant testimony, that the Jews had other Sabbaths beside the weekly Sabbath which fell on Saturday. The first day of Passover week, no matter upon what day of the week it came, was always a Sabbath (Exodus 12:16; Leviticus 23:7; Numbers 28:16–18). The question therefore arises whether the Sabbath that followed Christ’s crucifixion was the weekly Sabbath (Saturday) or the Passover Sabbath, falling on the 15th of Nisan, which came that year on Thursday. Now the Bible does not leave us to speculate in regard to which Sabbath is meant in this instance, for John tells us in so many words, in John 19:14, that the day on which Jesus was tried and crucified was “the preparation of the Passover” (RV), that is, it was not the day before the weekly Sabbath (Friday) but it was the day before the Passover Sabbath, which came that year on Thursday. That is to say, the day on which Jesus Christ was crucified was Wednesday. John makes this as clear as day.
The gospel of John was written later than the other gospels, and scholars have for a long time noticed that in various places there was an evident intention to correct false impressions that one might get from reading the other gospels. One of these false impressions was that Jesus ate the Passover with His disciples at the regular time of the Passover. To correct this false impression John clearly states that He ate it the evening before, and that He himself died on the cross at the very moment the Passover lambs were being slain “between the two evenings” on the 14th of Nisan (Exodus 12:6, Hebrew; cf. RV marg.). God’s real Paschal Lamb, Jesus, of whom all other Paschal lambs offered through the centuries were only types, was therefore slain at the very time appointed of God.
Everything about the Passover lamb was fulfilled in Jesus. (1) He was the Lamb without blemish and without spot (Exodus 12:5). (2) He was chosen on the 10th of Nisan (Exodus 12:3), for it was on the tenth day of the month, the preceding Saturday, that the triumphal entry into Jerusalem was made, since they came from Jericho to Bethany six days before the Passover (John 12:1—that would be six days before Thursday, which would be Friday); and it was on the next day that entry into Jerusalem was made (John 12:12 ff.), that is, on Saturday, the 10th of Nisan. It was also on this same day that Judas went to the chief priests and offered to betray Jesus for thirty pieces of silver (Matthew 26:6–16; Mark 14:3–11). As it was after the supper in the house of Simon the leper, and as the supper occurred late on Friday, that is, after sunset, or early on Saturday, “after” the supper would necessarily be on the 10th of Nisan. This being the price set on Him by the chief priests, it was the buying or taking to them of a lamb which according to law must occur on the 10th of Nisan. Furthermore, they put the exact value on the lamb that Old Testament prophecy predicted (Matthew 26:15; cf. Zechariah 11:12). (3) Not a bone of Him was broken when He was killed (John 19:36; cf. Exodus 12:46; Numbers 9:12; Ps
 
do u know exactly what date it was in jerusalem also those were the days of jesus you wont know anything about the week when jesus was here
 
On my website, address at profile, there is a link subject "Jesus Christ", in the first section.

Scroll down past all the subheadings until you get to the subheading called "Sign of Jonah." (orange line) Read until the end of that page.

The explanation can be found there. You may not agree with it - usually people who attack the Bible are not open to agreement on any explanations given.

Nonetheless, you can see what the explanation is.
 
It's a great question, and one that deserves an answer to it.
Here is some notes from The Apologetics Study Bible.

The Passage: Matthew 12:38-40
(38) Then some of the scribes and Pharisees said to Him, "Teacher, we want to see a sign from You." (39) But He answered them, "An evil and adulterous generation demands a sign, but no sign will be given to it except the sign of the prophet Jonah. (40) For as Jonah was in the belly of the great fish three days and three nights, so the Son of Man will be in the heart of the earth three days and three nights."

Notes: Mat 12:38-40 See note on Mk 8:12. "Three days and three nights" is from Jnh 1:17. In Jewish reckoning, a period of light and darkness makes a "day" (onah), and any part of a "day" is considered as the whole. Since Jesus arose on the third day (Mt 16:21; 27:63-64), which was the first day of the week (28:1), the language of three days and nights does not mean 72 hours (see Est 4:16; 5:1) but "part of Friday, all of Saturday, and part of Sunday."

The Passage: Mark 8:11-12
(11) The Pharisees came out and began to argue with Him, demanding of Him a sign from heaven to test Him. (12) But sighing deeply in His spirit, He said, "Why does this generation demand a sign? I assure you: No sign will be given to this generation!"

The Notes from Mk 8:12 At least six places in the Gospels have Jesus' audience asking Him to show them a sign ( Mt 12:38-39; 16:1-2; Mk 8:11-12; Lk 11:16,29-32; Jn 2:18; 6:30) The request for a sign was a regular occurrence during Jesus' ministry, and this alone may account for some of the distinctions among the various records. If Mt 16 and Mk 8 record the same event, then Mark's must be the taken as a truncated version, giving in effect the message of the longer accounts. The authorities wanted an immediate sign attesting to Jesus' message, but they would not receive such a sign. Jesus did supply signs, particularly in Jn, to help create faith where there was openness for it or bolster weak faith. But He would never work signs on demand, just to pacify the skeptics. The sign they would be given, that of Jonah, would not be the sort they sought. Some scholars, on the basis of Lk 11:29-32, take the sign of Jonah to be Jonah's effective preaching. Others, on the basis of Mt 12:39-41, take the sign of Jonah to be the resurrection.

It would help you further to look up the other passages mentioned.
 
he hung on the cross till he passed, then he was placed in the tomb and then arose on the third day. You cant count the days he was alive on the cross you said dead three days he did not die instantly you start the count after he passed.Matthew chapters 27 and 28. Its sad that you try and find anything to prove God wrong or his existence B/C you cant prove that he don't exist doesn't mean that he doesn't.God is so alive and real I just wish that people would get it for their own sake.
I hope that you have a blessed and wonderful life.
 
Well, remember that missing day when Joshua was fighting and God stopped the sun for 1 day to allow him to slaughter enough enemies? Guess where it went...
 
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