As for myself I take the following statement as Rock Solid Law:Purity said:
I perceive you are spiritualising Gen 1:11-13 in some way, which is fine, although the way is not all that clear. You agree the Master was completely dead for three days and ceased to exist in any form.
Your reference to Gen 1:11-13 and the third day is of interest. We know the number three is figurative of the resurrection or completion but I perceive you are inferring more.
Maybe its figurative of the earth being a symbol of the human heart; capable of being sown with good seed, and bringing forth abundantly; or of producing thorns and thistles as per Matt. 13:3-9, 19-23 & Heb. 6:7).
We shall see.
Purity
John 12:23-24 KJV
23. And Jesus answered them, saying, The hour is come, that the Son of man should be glorified.
24. Verily, [1] verily, [2] I say unto you, Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit.
Likewise other passages quoted in Reply #10 above:
"Yeshua says: The kingdom of heaven is like to a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and sowed in his field: which indeed is the least of all seeds: but when it is grown, it is the greatest among the herbs, and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the air come and lodge in the branches thereof. And again he said, Whereunto shall we liken the kingdom of God? or with what comparison shall we compare it? It is like a grain of mustard seed, which, when it is sown in the earth, is less than all the seeds that be in the earth: but when it is sown, it grows up, and becomes greater than all herbs, and shoots out great branches; so that the fowls of the air may lodge under the shadow of it."
Therefore it is not possible to have "a third day" wherein the earth brings forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, UNLESS THE KERNEL FIRST DIED, (bara'-cut down from Genesis 1:1 also from Reply #10). How else can one perceive it then except that in the beginning the Son was cut down and all things were created through him by the Father? However this "cutting down", (bara' like the felling of a tree) was according to Spirit and not according to the flesh; yet as men, according to the natural world, it is the earthy and earthly which came first; then came the spiritual even according to Paul. So the spiritual cutting down of the Son of God in the beginning resulted in the natural physical world coming forth and bursting forth with Life, even the Life of the risen Son of God. If therefore the supernal and spiritual "cutting down" of the Son of God in the very beginning resulted in the creation of all the known physical living world then what did his physical death of the flesh-body bring at the Cross but spirit-soul resurrection to the rest of his brethren which are not of the flesh but of the Spirit? Therefore we must be "translated" from soul to Spirit in Messiah who is in the Father. :)