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no stone unturned to carry out their nefarious designs. After all Jesus survived the cross. We have established this with mighty arguments. . When it is established that Jesus did not die on thecross, mere nailing will be of no avail to Christians. The doctrine of Atonement and crucifixion goes to pieces. pieces. I challenge all. Christians to refute my arguments !. Ch. In the sign of Jonah and the sign of Jesus the similarity is not in being alive in the belly of the whale and in being alive in the tomb. . The resemblance is only in the stay of three nights and three days. . Ah-M. The similarity you claim is not fulfilled. . Jesus, in your views, remained one-not three days and two nights, nor three nights in the a sepulchre. . Thus the unique sign of Jesus is falsified. Is it possible for any Christian to prove that Jesus tarried in the tomb for three days and three nights?. Ch. The Jews did not say that Jesus was only in a stupor. Nor did the annals of the Roman. Empire record that fact. . If Pilate. Ah-M. If the Jews had confessed that their pet notionthat Jesus was an impostor and was, therefore, accursed would have gone wrong. had allowed the news of the survival of Jusus to leak out, he would have exposed himself to the authority for a crime against the state. . No wonder, the Jews' crime and Pilate's statement happen to be the same. Even this much 77