Oh, so that is how to understand scripture, it doesn't really mean what it says.
Three days and three nights is really two nights and a day and the Creator of days and nights Who said this...
Joh 11:9 Jesus answered, Are there not twelve hours in the day? If any man walk in the day, he stumbleth not, because he seeth the light of this world.
Joh 11:10 But if a man walk in the night, he stumbleth, because there is no light in him.
really didn't know what He was talking about.
I see now how you have developed some of YOUR doctrines. I think your rules for exegesis must be...
1) The Bible really doesn't mean what it says.
2) If you don't agree with what the Bible says, refer to rule #1.
that's very astute john. 'they' ever since the scribes and pharisees who opposed yahweh have had that attitude as you so succinctly described.
i don't know yet, although i might 'suppose', that people today, in 2015, who agree with heretics from 300a.d. ff, are heretical also,
but that might be too big a jump, erroneous conclusion, fallacy or just plain unrighteous.
however, i'm pretty sure you realize that the errors and heresies propagated for almost 2000 years are usually not overcome in a moment - not even in days, weeks, maybe not even in years, but decades, even lifetimes, and then
.................................................... only if and as God permits. if God doesn't grant it from heaven, no man can receive anything. (repeated several times in OT and NT, all through God's Own Word.).
so , since education, scholarship, degrees in anything (religion, philosophy, mathematics, physics socialogy etc etc etc ad nauseum ad infinitum) , CANNOT produce life or reveal truth.....
that leaves only prayer, sometimes desperate prayer or fervent prayer (like God listens to and withholds rain and heals the sick and casts out demons and raises the dead for ) .... ... ...
not even 2000 years of study or posts or forums will convince anyone of truth. (not even the disciples of jesus understood,
............................................................ until he breathed on them !!!!!!!!!!!!! ) simple truth sent from god, not ever understood
and not
ever accepted
nor ever grasped by the world (no matter how much 'education'; rather as jesus said himself, otherwise ! ) .....