[metmom]

The third day after His death.

What’s so hard about that?

Why are you so sure you are right? What authority? Can you provide Scriptural support for your position? Not tradition, not consensus, not some ramblings of some *church father* hundreds of years after the fact, but actual, inspired Word of God Scripture.

Or was Jesus lying when He said that He would spend three days and three nights in the earth?

The choice is yours.

I find it ironic beyond belief that a Catholic would put the words of Paul above the words of Jesus for just this one situation, considering the scathing indictment of Paul by the Catholics on this forum and how they make a hierarchy of Scripture, elevating the words of Jesus above all else.

Except in this situation, then Paul rules. Right?

[MarkBsnr]

I find it ironic beyond belief that a Catholic would put the words of Paul above the words of Jesus for just this one situation, considering the scathing indictment of Paul by the Catholics on this forum and how they make a hierarchy of Scripture, elevating the words of Jesus above all else.

Let us see what Jesus said in:

Luke 24:45Then he opened their minds to understand the scriptures.x 46* And he said to them,y “Thus it is written that the Messiah would suffer and rise from the dead on the third day

Without good interpretation of Scripture, how can you tell what apparent discrepencies mean? Answer: whatever Luther's any milkmaid can dream up.