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I go with Mr. Akin’s position in which he goes into in-depth study on this subject. Any thing else is just pure speculation.

No, anything else is actual bible study...

And even Akin can't deal with the 3 days and 3 night...He doesn't even bother to mention it...

So apparently no Catholic can deal with what the scriptures say about the issue...Why not just admit it???

And this from your Catholic expert:

There are a number of ways of resolving this. For example, some have suggested that Jesus and his disciples used a different calendar than the Jewish authorities, and we know that there were different calendars in use in first century Judaism.

It's also possible that Jesus just advanced the date of the Passover celebration for him and his disciples. I mean, they were already convinced he was the Messiah and the Son of God. If he says, "We're celebrating Passover today," and it's a day earlier than most people, they'd just go with that.

Why doesn't he just admit that his theory doesn't line up with scripture and he has no idea how to work it out...Pitiful...

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. Rather than simply accepting that some people disagree with the RC "tradition" of Good Friday - probably invented for the benefit of a long weekend - the REAL point is forgotten. What do we think is more important to God, the exact day of the week on which Christ was crucified or that we believe that he WAS crucified for our sins? The arguments the early Christian leaders had with Gnostics was over their false idea that Jesus didn't really die because they didn't believe he HAD a physical body that could die.

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)