"Was Jesus rising from the dead on the third day to be taken literally?"
No.
https://johnleefisherjr.medium.com/astro-theology-the-true-story-of-jesuss-the-sun-s-birth-death-and-resurrection-383041b701a7“The Christian religion is a parody on the worship of the Sun,
in which they put a man whom they call Christ, in the place of the Sun, and pay him the same adoration which was originally paid to the Sun.”
-Thomas PaineNo greater truth has been known to be expounded by, Thomas Paine, the spiritual leader of our nation’s founding Father’s. The original Gnostic (Jewish) Christian scriptural writers understood that Jesus was not to be interpreted as a human being as the members of a branch of Messianic Judaism.
