Just now you are getting around to asking me that question? Why didn't you LEAD with it? Here's a HINT...Jesus was talking to the thief while He was STILL in human form, wasn't He? We also know FROM THE Scriptures that Jesus was "three days and three nights" in the heart of the earth (Matt. 12:40). Shouldn't that give us a clue as to what time frame Jesus meant for the thief? Sure sounds to me like it was a literal day - not a thousand years - and that very first day in Paradise, just like Jesus told him. You don't want to believe Jesus, you want to imagine He was playing word games or tricking that guy, that's your problem. Like I have been saying all along, words in context mean what they say.
Scripture are the words of God. You apply your human and man made beliefs to change the clear words of Scripture.
That's rich coming from someone whose religion relies chiefly on human and man made beliefs, myths, legends and forgeries.
Today is not 24 hours to the Lord. A day is not 24 hours to the Lord. That is Scripture you deny
Was three days actually three days to Jesus when He said how long He would be before He resurrected or was it three thousand years??? When the Holy Spirit had Moses write in Genesis that He created the world in six days - with evening and morning being one day - and resting on the sixth day, was He really meaning six thousand years, or six million years, or billion...??? Seeing as Scripture:
For whatever was written in earlier times was written for our instruction, so that through perseverance and the encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope. (Romans 15:4)
When God means literal things, He says so. When He uses allegory, metaphor, parables, He is also clear...if we have ears to hear and hearts to seek after the truth.
You nailed it well there by pointing out what paradise is; its certainly not “heaven.”
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