I don’t recall the Scriptures presenting that thinking.
And if Christ be not raised, your faith
is vain; ye are yet in your sins. Then they also which are fallen asleep in Christ are perished. 1 Cor 15:17,18
For since by man
came death, by man
came also
the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all
be made alive. 1 Cor 15:21,22
For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being
put to death in the flesh, but
quickened by the Spirit: 1 Peter 3:18
Is resurrection from the dead, being made alive, quickened, some form of regeneration?
And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all
things he might have the preeminence. Col 1:18 Brought forth from the dead.
If Christ were not the first fruit, resurrected, made alive, quickened, born from the dead, where would that leave, all, from Adam to now? Would there be any kind of regeneration for any? And if Christ be not raised, your faith
is vain; ye are yet in your sins. Then they also which are fallen asleep in Christ
are perished. 1 Cor 15:17,18
Would you say that the word of God would consider Joseph of Arimathaea and Nicodemus, clean or unclean, after touching the body of the dead Jesus?
Did this; and the
LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all. Isa 53:6 have anything to do with this; My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? ?
I have asked and believe me, I do not know the answer but why; three days and three nights in the heart of the earth? Why three? Does it have anything to do with purity or being clean? I do not know. Maybe some of the D D's know.