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Re: Why is Good Friday called Good Friday?

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Post by macartain » Sun, Apr 20, 2025, 9:29 AM UTC

ImJamal wrote: post #88

mongol wrote: post #50

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This is a better case for parent's point. We know pretty well when in the year Jesus died. We don't know when he was born. That it happened Decemver 25th is a choice by the early church

We have a good estimate of when Jesus was born and it is around December 25th. The way this is determined is that in Luke 1:5 it says John the Baptist's father was a priest in the Abijah division. Further in Luke it says that an angel came to John's father while he was serving in the temple that his wife will get pregnant. Also in Luke, it says in the 6th month of John's mother's pregnancy Mary conceived. When you lo…

I had always assumed this was co-option of the Winter Equinox - otherwise it seems a heck of a coincidence.. Is there no evidence of this?

EDIT - sorry, I see this is discussed below...

Re: Why is Good Friday called Good Friday?

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Post by sph » Sun, Apr 20, 2025, 10:36 AM UTC

citrin_ru wrote: post #13

arrowsmith wrote: post #7

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SEO slop existed long before LLMs but now it is also in the training sets which may affect their output.

Good. Let LLMs eat and regurgitate themselves, until they reach a singularity of uselessness.

Re: Why is Good Friday called Good Friday?

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Post by AStonesThrow » Sun, Apr 20, 2025, 11:30 PM UTC

fortran77 wrote: post #137

LtWorf wrote: post #60

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Yes I don't speak hebrew… It's just called "jewish easter" in my language. And?

In Hebrew, Easter is called "פסחא" which is very similar to Passover, "פסח" (Just an aleph added, and the prounciation changed a bit). However, the holidays have nothing to do with each other, despite Christian attempts to link the Paschal lamb to Jesus. Nobody would say "The Jews have Easter" because we have no holiday commemerating the ressurection of a messiah. We beleive the messiah has yet to come.

> the holidays have nothing to do with each other

Well, if the holidays had nothing to do with each other, then the Early Christians reading the Gospels were all severely misled by the quite obvious references to Jesus as the Paschal Lamb, such as the Last Supper with no mention of a lamb on the table [because it was Jesus, the Lamb Himself, living among them]

https://bible.usccb.org/bible/exodus/12?3

and the very specific mention of Nisan and the 10th day, upon which to "take an unblemished lamb from teh flock"

https://bible.usccb.org/bible/mark/14?12

https://sjvlaydivision.org/new-paschal-lamb/#:~:text=Jesus%2...

was the day Pilate said "I find no fault [blemish] in this man [Jesus]"

https://bible.usccb.org/bible/john/18?38

https://bible.usccb.org/bible/luke/23?4

And scholars for the last 2,000 years have colossally wasted their time, right up to and including Dr. Scott Hahn, who has staked his entire career on Jesus as the Paschal Lamb,

https://paschallamb.com/products/the-fourth-cup?pr_prod_stra...

And priests and bishops and cardinals and popes have been super-wrong about relating the Passion, Death, and Resurrection to the Passover feast, or the little bit about Egypt and the first-born sons and the blood on the lintels of their doors, or the incident with Moses and the Hebrews escaping Pharaoh during the Parting of the Red Sea (which is sung liturgically with psalms for the Easter Vigil as folks are being literally baptized)

Man we've been wrong about all this stuff. Thank you, Horus, and thank you, Ishtar, for dispelling those silly myths about Oestre which is a pagan festival that also has nothing to do with Jews or Hebrew religion.

Re: Why is Good Friday called Good Friday?

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Post by yencabulator » Tue, Apr 22, 2025, 9:52 PM UTC

hagbarth wrote: post #22

In Danish it’s called Langfredag (Long Friday). I believe it’s because of the drawn out suffering of the crucifixion.

> In Old English, the day was called Long Friday (langa frigedæg [ˈlɑŋɡɑ ˈfriːjedæj])—referring to the lengthy observances of fasting and religious services, making it a day of extended devotion—and equivalents of this term are still used in Scandinavian languages and Finnish.[16]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_Friday#Etymology