All throughout Scripture we are NEVER commanded to mark the day on which Jesus died, but we ARE given strong hints that it was His resurrection that mattered the most and the earliest believers met on the first day of the week in memory of that. If we don't believe He rose again from the dead, we are not true believers. Paul even said, "and if Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is vain, your faith also is vain. (I Cor. 15:14)". I believe God cares more about us believing in Jesus Christ as our risen Savior than He does that we KNOW what all the days were two thousand years ago. Those who make a big deal out of this are more concerned about their church being right and everyone else being wrong than they are about the gospel. That's why I have refused to continue the argument. It is nothing but "foolish controversies and genealogies and arguments and quarrels about the law, because these are unprofitable and useless." (Titus 3:9)
All this makes me wonder why all the “fuss” about the day that our Lord and Savior Jesus suffering and dying on the Holy Cross, when the scriptures does point out it would be on both the Passover and right before the Jewish sabbath? Be at peace!
Have a good and blessed Holy Easter weekend!
“...ubiquitous threads opened by RCs the week Easter is celebrated...”
Why oh why is it always the Catholics?
Why don’t you protestants start ‘ubiquitous’ threads during Easter week?
“...the RC “tradition” of Good Friday - probably invented for the benefit of a long weekend”
Nice prot slam going to the motives of why and what someone did 2,000 years ago.
yeah that’s right Catholics had nothing to do but “invent’ when Easter week occurred.
and you have nothing to do 2000 years later but sit around all day and opine, opine, opine.
So will you be actually going to any protestant services on this Easter Week or will you just be home ‘churching yourself’?
BTW it is easy to be a critic, not quite as easy to post a coherent critical argument...have a blessed Holy Week...
For the Greater Glory of God
**What astounds me the MOST about these ubiquitous threads opened by RCs the week Easter is celebrated is the huge fuss being made over what day what occurred. **
I totally agree.
We don't have to. It happened at EXACTLY the time the Lamb of Passover was slaughtered - a shadow picture that occurred in Eqypt, a thousand years in the making, and the observed kept ever since, before it actually occurred on the cross. Now that's the work of the Almighty!
I will rise in mild contention with you boatbums - *no doubt* the important part is Yeshua's sacrifice, but in that, one has to determine 'who gets to tell the story'... It is my opinion that is what Yeshua was pointing to when he said he would leave but one proof to a wicked (Torah-twisting) generation. That proof authenticates the true story, and untwists the the tale, leaving those who claim authority wallowing in their lie, and it is apparent at once that their claim of authority is laid waste.
And that proof begins and ends with three days and three nights in the ground. First one finds the traditions of men to be false (it's easy - one only needs to be able to count to three)... But then, if one will dig deeper, one will find that the moed, the 'appointment', was perfectly, precisely, and incredibly fulfilled to the finest increment as *TRUE*. One then will be impelled to inquire of the rest of the moedim, the appointments made by YHWH. THEN one will see what YHWH has declared from the beginning, and in that, the proof positive that YHWH is YHWH, and that there are none like he...
All throughout Scripture we are NEVER commanded to mark the day on which Jesus died [...]
Oh, but indeed, we are. What do you think the moedim are *for*?
1Co 5:7 Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us:
1Co 5:8 Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
(e-Sword:KJV)