Hi, "Poor in Spirit", and welcome to EvC.
Poor in Spirit writes:
The second Adam (Jesus) was raised from the earth on the third day. It makes sense that the first Adam (Adam) would have been raised from the earth on the third day.
Lots of stories seem to favor threes -- three is a very handy number for rhetorical purposes. ("The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe", "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly", "A priest, a rabbi and an engineer went into a bar...", "The first time..., the second time..., and then the third time...", and so on.) But I'm sure that's not relevant here.
Let those of us who put our faith in the second Adam sit back and watch as our Father finishes His plan of redemption on the 5th and 6th day, and what a great day it will be on the 7th.
I've always been curious about this apparent flexibility in the notion of how much time is taken up by a "biblical day." Obviously, since the plan you speak of was not fully completed within an actual week after the crucifixion, the three days preceding the resurrection are very different from the 5th, 6th and 7th days that you are referring to (which are apparently still in progress -- and, which day are we on "today"?)
Would you say that your perspective here is consistent with (affirmed by) this passage?
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II Peter 3.8: But beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
I'd be interested whether anyone can clarify that passage with respect to the words used in the original language. I'm assuming that Peter was not a mathematician, and that whatever word has been translated into King James' English as "a thousand" was really being used to mean "a really big number, the biggest number you can imagine" (i.e. not "exactly 10 * 10 * 10"; numeric zero was not invented till a few hundred years later, and these days it's hard to imagine how people would envision "a thousand" without just picturing a "1" followed by "000").
It would also be interesting to know why some Christians seem to insist on attributing an inflexible, literal, 24-hour meaning to the "days" in Genesis 1, despite this seemingly clear instruction from Peter that they shouldn't do that.
Edited by Otto Tellick, : minor grammar repair
autotelic adj. (of an entity or event) having within itself the purpose of its existence or happening.