Resurrection not after 3 days!

[New_U.S.]

This probably best to ask my pastor this but I'll let you try to figure it out first (its an Easter Question)-

Jesus died on Good Friday, probably in the evening. He was resurrected early Sunday morning. Say he died 6 pm Friday and was resurected 6 am Sunday.
Thats 36 hours apart! 1.5 days not 3!

{ Yes, I know you can think of it as 3 days as in Friday, Saturday, and Sunday}

Have fun thinking this out-

EDIT: opp, sorry put this in wrong section

 

[Tonks]

Say he died at 1 am Friday. Then was resurrected at midnight Sunday. That's a full 3 days.

 

[Rinpun]

Heheh, well in essence I don't think it's to the date accurate of Jesus's resurrection. It was more of a celebration of his death and resurrection. When it comes down to statistics, there's no real reason for him to be resurrected on any reasonable time frame. There is, of course, good reason for him to have died in the evening/deep in the night.

 

[Banana]

Erm, don't forget that this was in a Jewish setting. They don't reckon days as Midnight to Midnight as Roman did. Rather, a day is defined from Sunset to Sunset. Therefore, if someone died on a Friday night after sunset, it would be actually Saturday "morning" according to Jewish reckoning.

 

[Rinpun]

Yep, more reason for us to not be sure of the exact time frame of the event.

After each sunset, there are four watches of three hours, so it could be documented somewhere that he died in the third watch of the night, which would be between "midnight" and 3 am. Not to say that it is, as I'm not aware, just if they would document it, they would document it that way, as they wouldn't be able to be positive about the "time", since they didn't have a good method of keeping a super accurate clock.

 

[Mahucharn]

whoa whos rinpun? this is the first time I've seen him post...

 

[XXXconanXXX]

Heheh, well in essence I don't think it's to the date accurate of Jesus's resurrection. It was more of a celebration of his death and resurrection. When it comes down to statistics, there's no real reason for him to be resurrected on any reasonable time frame. There is, of course, good reason for him to have died in the evening/deep in the night.

Is this why we hide the eggs?

 

[Pineapple]

No, thats just so government can get money from jesuses death, just like they get money from his birth (christmas)

 

[Rinpun]

No, thats just so government can get money from jesuses death, just like they get money from his birth (christmas)

Stores get the money. Government doesn't. They tax to try to get in on it, but they fail miserably

And I have no idea what eggs have to do with anything. I think -it- and the candy originally were used to get the kids interested, but it seems to have taken the entire event over (except for the churches that still celebrate the real reason).

 

[Tonks]

They tax to try to get in on it, but they fail miserably

They sure do. We don't even have sales taxes in Alaska. Our airports have big signs "NO TAXES!" in like 6 different languages.

 

[NoxMortus]

The eggs come from part of the Bible where Mary Magdelene (sp?) picks up an egg and it turns red to prove that Jesus had ressurected .. Or something like that - A documentary was on about it and I watched parts of it during loading screens of wc3 / css

 

[Rinpun]

You are way too gullible. There is no such thing written.

...You're welcome to look of course, I assure you it is not there. The egg tradition came from one of the [many] gentile countries (forgot which one) and people wishing to make money picked up on it over time.

 

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Easter is during spring. Spring is a time of new things. Babies, seedlings, things to be built. All because it is weather that feels good. The eggs also symbolize "new begininngs." As for the whole 3 day thing. Lazarus was resurrected after 3 days and so was Jesus. After 3 days the body starts to decompose and badly smells. The whole reason it was 3 days is all for theatrics. It's to show everyone that Jesus has the power to bring people back to life even at the most vile of states.

 

[Rinpun]

Theatrics? If he was God it would be his choice to make it three days or five days or whatever, but I see sort of what you mean

Also, He told the Pharisees that they could destroy the temple and He would build it back up in three days, so he was more like keeping his promise there than anything else. He could've easily said four+ days though.

 

[XXXconanXXX]

I was somewhat ambiguous with my post, but I was mainly trying to point out that there's no correlation between Easter and the ressurection of Jesus. xD

I believe the eggs represent fertility, the springtime of new births. I do know that Christmas and Easter were adopted from Pagan holidays, and the Spring festival of the pagans was slowly turned into Easter and the celebration of Jesus' ressurection.

I think that mainly comes from the fact that many pagans saw the light, and adapted their festivals of the seasons into celebrations of their new lord.

No idea what the bunny or the eggs (Bunnies don't even lay eggs ) are for, must have something to do with the insanely fact reproduction of rabbits.

 

[NoxMortus]

You are way too gullible. There is no such thing written.

...You're welcome to look of course, I assure you it is not there. The egg tradition came from one of the [many] gentile countries (forgot which one) and people wishing to make money picked up on it over time.

Well the documentary said it was written in a Gospel which I assumed to be in the Bible.

"Tradition relates, that in Italy Mary Magdalene visited the Emperor Tiberias (14-37 AD) and proclaimed to him about Christ's Resurrection. According to tradition, she took him an egg as a symbol of the Resurrection, a symbol of new life with the words: "Christ is Risen!" Then she told Tiberias that, in his Province of Judea, Jesus the Nazarene, a holy man, a maker of miracles, powerful before God and all mankind, was executed on the instigation of the Jewish High-Priests and the sentence affirmed by the procurator Pontius Pilate. Tiberias responded that no one could rise from the dead, anymore than the egg she held could turn red. Miraculously, the egg immediately began to turn red as testimony to her words. Then, and by her urging, Tiberias had Pilate removed from Jerusalem to Gaul, where he later suffered a horrible sickness and an agonizing death." - http://www.thenazareneway.com/mary_magdalene.htm

 

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Ok....Well then..... That kinda ends this thread. Thanks for ruining our fun NoxMortus. j/k That's a good story. I hope I remember it.

 

[Miz]

Speaking of the Easter Bunny when he came I shot him with a crossbow under my bed

(What we can't hide weapons anymore)

But anyway somethings in a hoilday were to make it to over reglions would convert like the christmas tree and also the date of christmas was made that way for some reglion that loved trees (forgot its name) would convert. Easter Eggs i think came from the stories of the Easter Bunny and then the Hoilday company got there hands on it....