I don't know and it doesn't really matter since that date has no real significance anyway
Researchers have long been puzzled by an apparent inconsistency in the Bible. While Matthew, Mark and Luke all say the Last Supper coincided with the start of the Jewish festival of Passover, John claims it took place before Passover.
I can't believe people evn care abut inconsistencies in the bible anymore since there are tonnes and even more bits which are obivously not true
Well there's no evidence claiming that Easter wasn't on a Thursday or Tuesday.
Researchers have long been puzzled by an apparent inconsistency in the Bible. While Matthew, Mark and Luke all say the Last Supper coincided with the start of the Jewish festival of Passover, John claims it took place before Passover.
I'm a bit puzzled about that, if they went by different calenders would that mean separate people thought it was a different day? Well, I suppose that is irrelevant to this thread.
To be honest, I'm not really sure what to believe, it just depends on which calender you're more faithful in I guess, even if Easter was on a Wednesday not much people are actually going to stop celebrating it on a Sunday and start doing so on a Wednesday, but I'll say it's an interesting theory, I'll look at some more articles later.
It's just the day we choose to commemorate his death. All I know personally is that Jesus died (Good Friday, the Friday before Easter) and three days later, he arose. We just choose to commemorate it on the Friday as his death and the Sunday as his arisal... or however you would change arose.
It's just the day we choose to commemorate his death. All I know personally is that Jesus died (Good Friday, the Friday before Easter) and three days later, he arose.
Then you know nothing.
It is one of the inconsistencies, it is likely to never have historically happened. Since it is likely to never have historically happened, it was probably functional to put it on a Sabbath as that day was already considered holly, so they just when for it.
I'm not for sure he died on a Friday. I don't know why I claimed that. Anyway, I asked my mom and she said it had something to do with Passover. That's her opinion.
The big thing that is being forgotten here is that it was never a secret that Easter, and Christmas aren't on the dates that we celebrate. Really, seriously, basic research brings this up. Even the Church does not deny that these holidays are based on Pagan holidays.
The reason we celebrate them on the days that we celebrate them is because King James decided he wanted to do a massive conversion to Christianity at a time when most of his kingdom still followed Pagan rituals. One of the MANY things he did in his...crusade if you will, was to decide that certain holidays would coincide with Pagan holidays to help the conversion process go a little smoother.
The big thing that is being forgotten here is that it was never a secret that Easter, and Christmas aren't on the dates that we celebrate. Really, seriously, basic research brings this up. Even the Church does not deny that these holidays are based on Pagan holidays.
Fallacy of extrapolation. Christmas is indeed set as a fixed date of former pagan holiday, while Easter is set by the dating of the day of Jewish Pesakh, 14th Nisan of a particular year, calculated by a complicated formulae. Why the Easter is Sunday - it's said "Jesus resurrected on the third day after his death", and Jewish counted days starting with the present day, so tomorrow will be "the second day". Because Jesus died on the cross on the very day of his crucifixion, and other culprits were forced to die by breaking their legs because the evening of Pesakh was approaching, that day was definitely Friday. The third day was also marked in the Bible as "first day of the week", and their week ended with Saturday being sacrosanct day for Jewish. So it was a definite Sunday.
Christmas is set during the Roman holiday of Saturnalia if I remember my Latin correctly. It took place no only because it would make the conversion process more smooth, but Christianity couldn't deal with the fact that a sect they were trying to wipe out was having such a celebration, in return they decided let's just hijack it, it'll increase our popularity.
Meh, Easter is based on the Pagan festival of Estar. When Christianity was introduced to the Romans, they had to put some of the Pagan worships into the belief system, just so it would go down easier.
