Easter Traditions?

[Tcg]

Are there any Easter Traditions that are related specifically to Jesus' resurrection? The Easter eggs hunts, bunnies and pastel-colored candies seem to be a celebration of spring. Certainly, sermons will be preached on Jesus' resurrection, but are there any Easter Traditions that Christians practice with their families that are focused on Jesus?


Tcg

[JehovahsWitness]

No, resurrection on the SUNDAY

Jesus being dead [parts of] Friday [day 1] , [all of ] Saturday [day 2] , [parts of] Sunday [day 3]



JW

How do you account for the lack of a third night?

Idiom: ie Jesus was using days and nights idiomatically not literally.
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Since the Jewish tradition was to count an entire day (24/hours period - including the night) as one unit, by being in the tomb parts of three consecutive days he was indeed dead three days "and nights". The scripture are clear that Jesus was resurrected on "the third day" (Acts 10:39, 40) which is not possible if one is to literally include three night periods.

[2ndpillar2]

[Replying to 2ndpillar2 in post #245

The unblemished lamb was to be prepared after noon on the 14th of Nissan

What are you meaning by "prepared" here?

The unblemished lamb is to be sacrificed, and the blood used on the door frames to dissuade the angels of death, and the lamb (Word of God made flesh/bread of life without leaven) to be completely eaten.

On the first day of Unleavened Bread, when they sacrifice the Passover lamb, His disciples asked Him, “Where do You want us to go and prepare the Passover so You may eat it?” (Mark 14:12)

Here, the day of the killing of the sacrifice is designated as the day before Jesus died. How could he be the paschal sacrifice if he wasn't "sacrificed" on the right day?

And who is "Mark"? Is he a follower of the "worthless shepherd" (Zech 11:17), Peter? There is no "first day of Unleavened Bread". There is only "a first day of the Feast of Unleavened bread", which lasts 7 days, which starts on the 15th of Nissan, which is preceded by the day of preparation, the 14th of Nissan, whereas all the leaven is thrown out of the house, and any meal would be without leaven bread. The Passover lamb was to be sacrificed on the 14th of Nissan, and eaten after sunset, which makes the Pascal dinner on the 15th of Nissan, which starts after sunset of the 14th of Nissan. The meal the previous evening did not have lamb, nor was it the Passover meal.

Joshua 5:10
10 On the evening of the fourteenth day of the month, while camped at Gilgal on the plains of Jericho, the Israelites celebrated the Passover.

Leviticus 23:4-8
4 “ ‘These are the LORD’s appointed festivals, the sacred assemblies you are to proclaim at their appointed times:
5 The LORD’s Passover begins at twilight on the fourteenth day of the first month.
6 On the fifteenth day of that month the LORD’s Festival of Unleavened Bread begins; for seven days you must eat bread made without yeast.
7On the first day hold a sacred assembly and do no regular work.
8 For seven days present a food offering to the LORD. And on the seventh day hold a sacred assembly and do no regular work.’ ”

John 19:31
Since it was the day of Preparation, and so that the bodies would not remain on the cross on the Sabbath (for that Sabbath was a high day), the Jews asked Pilate that their legs might be broken and that they might be taken away.

[2ndpillar2]

No, resurrection on the SUNDAY

Jesus being dead [parts of] Friday [day 1] , [all of ] Saturday [day 2] , [parts of] Sunday [day 3]



JW

How do you account for the lack of a third night?

Idiom: ie Jesus was using days and nights idiomatically not literally.
viewtopic.php?p=1002749#p1002749

Since the Jewish tradition was to count an entire day (24/hours period - including the night) as one unit, by being in the tomb parts of three consecutive days he was indeed dead three days "and nights". The scripture are clear that Jesus was resurrected on "the third day" (Acts 10:39, 40) which is not possible if one is to literally include three night periods.

The only "sign" to be given was the sign of Jonah, which was 3 days and 3 nights in the belly of the well/earth. No 3 days and 3 nights, then you have no sign. You might want to rethink your position. (Mt 12:39-40)

[AquinasForGod]

The church does lent, leading up to easter.

Then Palm Sunday.

Holy Thursday mass, in which the eucharist is very important because we remember the last supper. We wash feet also.

Good Friday: We obtain from read meat and meditate on how Christ suffered for us.

Easter Vigil

Easter Sunday Catholic do different things. Some even hunt for eggs or whatever is common in their culture. But there is an easter mass also.

[JehovahsWitness]

No, resurrection on the SUNDAY

Jesus being dead [parts of] Friday [day 1] , [all of ] Saturday [day 2] , [parts of] Sunday [day 3]



JW

How do you account for the lack of a third night?

Idiom: ie Jesus was using days and nights idiomatically not literally.
viewtopic.php?p=1002749#p1002749

Since the Jewish tradition was to count an entire day (24/hours period - including the night) as one unit, by being in the tomb parts of three consecutive days he was indeed dead three days "and nights". The scripture are clear that Jesus was resurrected on "the third day" (Acts 10:39, 40) which is not possible if one is to literally include three night periods.

The only "sign" to be given was the sign of Jonah, which was 3 days and 3 nights in the belly of the well/earth. No 3 days and 3 nights, then you have no sign. You might want to rethink your position. (Mt 12:39-40)

Why should I? I have offered a reasonable explaination above.

[Athetotheist]

[Replying to 2ndpillar2 in post #262

And who is "Mark"? Is he a follower of the "worthless shepherd" (Zech 11:17), Peter?

the leaven of the Pharisees (Paul), which is hypocrisy

Keep whittling the Christian Bible down and before long you'll have none of it left. If any of it is in question, all of it is in question.

[Ozzy_O]

In all four Gospels, the crucifixion was on Friday. In Matthew, Mark, and Luke, the Passover meal was eaten the day before, on Thursday. In John, it was eaten the day after, on Saturday.

Biblically Jesus did indeed die on a Friday. The passover meal was on the same "day" (Friday) the Jews counting their days from Sunset-to-Sunset.




JW

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So sunset Friday was one day, sunset Saturday was two days, and resurrection Sunday morning

Do you disagree with scripture and the 3 days in the tomb? Your theory would place the ressurection on Monday

No, resurrection on the SUNDAY

Jesus being dead [parts of] Friday [day 1] , [all of ] Saturday [day 2] , [parts of] Sunday [day 3]



JW

Matthew 12:40
or, as Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights, so shall the Son of Man be in the heart of the earth three days and three nights

Jesus said three nights so it HAS TO be three nights, right? And no, the night he was all venin th garden doesn't count as a night in the tomb

[Ozzy_O]

Are there any Easter Traditions that are related specifically to Jesus' resurrection? The Easter eggs hunts, bunnies and pastel-colored candies seem to be a celebration of spring. Certainly, sermons will be preached on Jesus' resurrection, but are there any Easter Traditions that Christians practice with their families that are focused on Jesus?
Tcg

Sunrise worship, either as an individual family or as a part of a church service. It is usually outdoors.

For real? Sun worship isn't about Jesus, is worship of the sun god

Yeah… you do get that a Sunrise service is not about worshiping the Sun, right? We go outside at dawn to worship the one God, not to worship the closest star to earth. Would you be okay if we call it the Dawn Service? The First Light Service? The Worship Service That Happens At 7:08 AM, But Only In 2023 Because Easter Is Not Always On the Same Day of the Year So the Time of the Service Changes Every Year?

When the pagan religions merged with Christianity, they told you that, but it was Tammuz worship, not Jesus
A lot of our traditions no are pagan rituals

You celebrate Tammuz on 12/25
And you cel brats Ishtar on Easter

Look it up, you've been had, sucker!!!!!!!!!

they lied to you and you bought it...

Ezekiel 8:16-17
16 He then brought me into the inner court of the house of the Lord, and there at the entrance to the temple, between the portico and the altar, were about twenty-five men. With their backs toward the temple of the Lord and their faces toward the east, they were bowing down to the sun in the east.

17 He said to me, “Have you seen this, son of man? Is it a trivial matter for the people of Judah to do the detestable things they are doing here? Must they also fill the land with violence and continually arouse my anger? Look at them putting the branch to their nose!

"In verse 16, the prophet sees a fourth vision in the inner court of the Temple—"about twenty-five men with their backs toward the temple and their faces toward the east, and they were worshipping the sun toward the east." This is obviously some sort of pagan sunrise service, in which they honor the sun more highly than God, to whom they contemptuously show their backsides.

Each abomination is described as being greater in wickedness than the one before. In verse 17, God asks, "Is it a trivial thing to the house of Judah to commit abominations which they commit here [in the Temple!]? For they have filled the land with violence; then they have returned to provoke Me to anger."

https://www.bibletools.org/index.cfm/fu ... ervice.htm

What does the Bible say about sun worship?
https://www.gotquestions.org/sun-worship.html

[Ozzy_O]

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How do you account for the lack of a third night?
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In the ancient Middle Eastern culture, a day was counted if any part of the day was included. So if something started at 6:00 PM on Tuesday and ended at 1:00 AM on Wednesday then it would have lasted 2 days. I know that we would say that it lasted 7 hours, and that’s fine. Both are correct in their own context.
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Yes, but t Jesus ditdnt say three days, he said three days AND thre nights, so there would need to be just a part of the third night to count, so anytime AFTER 6pm Sunday, he would fulfill the sign of Jonah

[bjs1]

When the pagan religions merged with Christianity, they told you that, but it was Tammuz worship, not Jesus
A lot of our traditions no are pagan rituals

You celebrate Tammuz on 12/25
And you cel brats Ishtar on Easter

Look it up, you've been had, sucker!!!!!!!!!

they lied to you and you bought it...

The celebrations to Tammuz were in in late February/early March, and then in late March/early April. The idea that Tammuz was born on December 25th was not introduced until the late 1800’s AD.

The worship of Tammuz did not include a yearly sunrise service.

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Tammuz ... r%20Dumuzi.

Christianity did borrow the word “Easter,” and the story of Ishtar includes death and resurrection, but the similarities end there.

The idea that there is a substantial connection, or that anyone has “been had” was popularized by Sir James Frazer in his book The Golden Bough. His book had wide pop culture appeal, but his theories have been almost universally rejected by modern scholars. Even Frazer himself referred to his ideas as “merely speculation.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Golden_Bough