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It doesn't, actually. It's a recreation, and not eye-witness testimony. I've read it. There are inconsistencies between it and the gospels. It's represents the general beliefs of its own era, but is not accurate. Take that information or not as choose.
We’ve engaged in plenty of discussion. You don’t have a history of accepting information you don’t want to agree with, so I’m not especially inclined to spend my time looking these things back up and writing something out for you that will be pointless and fruitless. If you want to know the inconsistencies, I would recommend you read and study. If you do that in sincerity, the inconsistencies will become apparent.
It would be prudent to not assume that the 3 days and 3 nights was how long Jesus would be dead and lying in the tomb. Always beware of people who try to make historical events fit a particular interpretation of some prophecy, like the "sign of Jonah" that Jesus gave the Scribes and Pharisees, an interpretation that may or may not be correct (I don't believe it is). Jesus was very clear when speaking to his disciples on what exactly would come to pass during those 3 days and 3 nights. He would be arrested. He would be rejected by the Jewish elders. (Thursday night) He would be turned over to be condemned to death. He would be beaten. (early Friday morning) He would be crucified. (Friday morning at 9:00 a.m.) And he would suffer for six long hours hanging nailed to a cross, and then, after suffering all these things, he would die (Friday afternoon at 3:00 p.m.), and his body would lie cold and lifeless in a tomb (late Friday afternoon until Sunday morning very early). But on the third day, the third day after having suffered all these things, he would rise. Even Jesus himself said he would suffer, and rise the third day. His "suffering" included his arrest, rejection, condemnation, brutal beating, and his crucifixion, all before he died and was placed in the tomb: "Thus it behooved Christ to suffer, and rise from the dead the third day." So the 3 days and 3 nights has to include everything Jesus suffered, beginning after the Passover supper on Thursday evening. Once Jesus was dead and placed in the tomb, his suffering was over. So it was 3 days and 3 nights after he suffered all these things that he rose from the dead, not 3 days and 3 nights after he died and his suffering was over.
That's not true. All four Gospels record the women's early morning visit to the tomb. The Greek word that is translated "dawn" does not mean "beginning." The English word has that meaning, but not the Greek. The Greek word, epiphosko, means "to begin to grow light." The root word is epiphaus, "to illuminate, to give light." This Greek word has nothing to do with and is never used to refer to the "beginning" of something, like the English word "dawn." And beyond that, all of the Gospels record this early Sunday morning visit of the women to the tomb, and taken all together (in context), are very clear about when Jesus was resurrected.
The feast days were never preceded by a day of preparation. I realize this may seem like a minor point of law, but we are talking about the law, and about how the 2nd Temple Jews understood and actually practiced the law. Now someone may interpret the law or calculate something and determine that the Jews had it wrong, and that may or may not be true. But the point is how did the Jews understand and practice the commandments respecting the legal observance of these festivals. Because that is how these events actually played out in the life of Jesus, how things were actually done, not how someone thinks they should have been done.
But the men on the road to Emmaus didn't even mention the hours Jesus was dead and lying in the tomb. They spoke of those hours during which he was rejected by the Jewish elders, handed over to the Romans to be condemned to death, all of which happened Thursday night and Friday morning, then was crucified, which was at 9:00 a.m. Friday morning, and he suffered for six long, agonizing hours hanging nailed to a cross before he died at 3:00 p.m. These men, on late Sunday afternoon after Jesus' resurrection, said it was the third day since "these things" were done. What things? The third day since Jesus was placed in the tomb? Or the third day since the chief priests and Jewish rulers rejected Jesus and handed him over to the Romans to be condemned and crucified, all "these things" a full night and day before he died?
But the thing is, the English word for "Pascha" is not "Easter." The English word for "Pascha" is "Passover."
But what does that mean, three days and three nights "in the heart of the earth"? On what grounds do you assume it means "in the tomb" three days and three nights?
There are a number of sabbaths in addition to the weekly Sabbaths on Saturdays.
A sabbath that was a "high day" was the Saturday Sabbath that fell on a feast day, because the Saturday Sabbath commandments overruled (was higher or greater than) all over commandments, even the festival commandments.
That's not true. Easter is the observance of the resurrection of Jesus Christ on the Sunday following the ancient date of the observance of the Passover. There is no record of any pagan holiday on the Sunday following the new moon on or after the spring equinox.
What? You said Easter is based on the full moon, and then turn around and say it's based on the sun. Easter is based on the phases of the moon, just like Passover is. Has nothing to do with the sun.
Both Christians and Jews calculate Easter and Passover based on the phases of the moon. Both Christians and Jews use a fixed calendar based on the Metonic cycle of the phases of the moon. Christians observe Easter on the Sunday that follows the Passover, except when the Jews have a leap year and add a month to their calendar, which throws Passover a month late, as it did this year. Then Easter occurs before Passover.
There was no "day of preparation for" the Passover. The law allowed all the preparations for the feast days to be made on those feast days, even on those feast days that were sabbaths. The only day that was a preparation day, when no work could be done and enough food had to be prepared for two days, was the Fridays before Saturday Sabbaths.
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That's not quite accurate. There is a new moon every 29.53 days. So from the spring equinox (always either on March 19, 20, or 21, March 25 is too late), there will always be a new moon occur within 29.53 days from the spring equinox. For example, if the spring equinox is March 19 (as it was this year), the latest the new moon can occur is April 17, within 29 1/2 days. So there will be a new moon on one of those days between those dates.
Most scholars I am aware of take that into account in their calculations. I certainly do.
That would depend entirely on what things those three days and night encompass. I don't believe they can be limited to just the period of time Jesus was dead and in the tomb, the popular interpretation of "in the heart of the earth" but without any explanation or Scriptural support.
Amen and Amen!
I understand that is the common usage. But I'm not talking about the way Christians commonly use the word Passover or what it is commonly understood to mean. The level of doctrinal understanding and wisdom among the general Christian community is ... not what it should be. It's a shame really, and in this day and age, with the ease of communication and public forums like this one that are open and available to everyone, perhaps it's time Christians get a bit better grasp of the doctrines of their faith. It is lamentable that the average Christian can burn up the internet with chatter about Eschatology, but is woefully ignorant about Soteriology, those doctrines about their own salvation.
Ah, Hislop, the source of so much of these myths about supposedly pagan roots of Christianity. Hislop was a rabidly anti-Catholic Scottish minister, and his entire screed was nothing less than an attempt to prove his particular interpretation of the Revelation, that the Roman Catholic Church was Mystery Babylon. Hislop was the epitome of what happens when people try to use the Scriptures to justify their hatred, dreaming up in their fevered imagination all kinds of "connections" between completely unrelated subjects, sometimes on nothing more than the fact that two words might sound similar.
Someone else wrote a book called Babylon Mystery Religion that was very popular based on Hislop’s work but later wrote another book disavowing the first one because he said Hislop’s sources didn’t check out.
The claims that the first day of Passover is a Sabbath is false. Read my article here: Can Nisan 15 be referred to as "the sabbath"?
JSRG, you were correct in an earlier post. Nisan 15 is nowhere called a Sabbath in the Hebrew or Greek scriptures. Whenever "The Sabbath" is used it always refers to the weekly Sabbath. Furthermore, you claim that the Jews counted inclusively. That is true. So, if Wednesday was the crucifixion that would be the first day of his betrayal and death. Friday would be the third day.
