[A.J.Armitage]

In an infinite lifespan a billion years has no meaning, three days barely has meaning in a human lifespan. Get real. That was no sacrifice.

It's even "worse" than that. He spent those three days in Heaven (with the thief who repented). But it wasn't just the death: He became sin for us. I don't think any of us can understand just what torture that was. God taking on the guilt for our sin. He can't even stand to look at sin, and He took it onto Himself for our good.

[Dimensio]

It's even "worse" than that. He spent those three days in Heaven (with the thief who repented).

I thought that the common understanding was that Christ spent the three days in Hell (though not in "torment", but for some other reason that I can't recall) and that many interpret his statement to the thief as "I tell you this today, you shall be with me in Paradise" (or even if the thief went to paradise, he would be with God, who is there even when on Earth as a man -- being omnipresent).

No scholar though, so I could be very wrong.