Why Jesus Spoke Figuratively

So, the age old question is upon us, "Why would Jesus say He would be three days in the belly of the Earth, three days and three nights, like Jonah?" And Jesus seems to have been crucified on Friday Morning, put in the tomb Friday evening, in the grave Friday night, Saturday morning and night, and raised on the third day, Early Sunday morning.

Atheists will say, "Aha! Jesus is a liar!" 

But no... much the same way Bible discrepancies are also called into question, when they shouldn't be, and here's the reason.

It is not healthy for the human being, to think about things so literally. As some researchers point out, the Left Brain, which focuses on such small trivial details, is the predatory brain, while the right brain comprehends the larger picture, and is not focused on such things.

This gets to the fact that the Bible is very much meant to be interpreted as a story. It's a true story--like Alexander, or Caesar, or Cyrus or Darius--but it is more fluently understood as a story, in that plot framework. Which, inconsistencies are not as important as the words themselves, and their meaning.

Too many people interpret things to the literal letter, and such is bad for the brain. It draws out all the wrong instincts in people, and makes them too focused on trivial matters, and doesn't get to the wider berth, nor does it comprehend the wider breadth of what's being said.

With this being told, when King Saul dies two ways, or Judas, we can part hairs trying to reconcile it--and it can be reconciled--but need it be? The fact is it's told in a story narrative, to make it interesting, and what's more important--like the stories of Alexander, or Caesar, or Cyrus or Darius--is what the stories mean. The events, surely, happened, and likely Cleopatra would have presented herself to Caesar in a fascinating way--we know it's  not two ways--but it's still recorded that she impressed him by smuggling herself to him, and making him fall into fatal attraction with the mere appearance of herself from the carpet or laundry bag or what have you.

So it is with the scripture, people are meant to look for the wider truths, and not the narrow truths, as it's more respectable for the brain, and it helps it comprehend the important structures, rather than the unimportant, which those unimportant things draw to the brain the schizophrenic and predatory instincts.

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[U]pon further looking at the thing, it seems Passover may have been on Wednesday and Christ may have been crucified that very day, as the Resurrection happened in 31AD, and Passover was on a Wednesday that year, and Christ was in the grave from 15th of Nisan to 18th of Nisan. There's nowhere in the Bible where it says "Friday" was the day he was crucified. And Guang Wu says there was an eclipse of both the sun and moon on 31AD, and Phlegon of Trelles does too. And they wanted Him off the cross for the High Sabbath. And there's literally only a six day discrepancy with the eclipse recorded in China, which is easily accounted for.

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However, there are some things which are too deep. Trust me... if you ever encounter that, just have faith in God that He's omnipotent, and can work everything for the good. And trust the Bible, no matter what. Just trust it... even if you see something you can't understand one day... trust it. It's like the News Report of God's dealing with His people.

I mean, maybe that's also understood in the Church Liturgy, on Ash Wednesday? I think I remember that, actually.

https://brandon.water.blog/2024/05/29/the-annals-of-guang-wu-31ad-the-eclipse-happened-and-a-month-later-guang-wu-issued-the-decree/