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leftin1991
Intermediate Member
Username: leftin1991
Post Number: 157
Registered: 11-2004
Posted From: 63.25.30.255
| | Posted on Sunday, April 09, 2006 - 7:39 am: | 
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"He that believeth not God hath made Him a liar." - 1 John 5:10
It has been taught for centuries that Christ was crucified on "Good Friday," laid in the tomb just before sunset, and that he arose very early on Easter Sunday morning. Tradition has so firmly planted that belief into the minds of most Christians that it is generally taken for a fact without serious investigation. This THEORY, although believed by many people, is impossible to prove from the Bible.
The doctrine of "Good Friday" is a false teaching which infects every major Christian denomination, and most of the minor ones. It is perpetuated by the Protestant churches, and was passed down to them from the Roman Catholics. Strangely enough, even the most staunchly anti-Catholic groups such as the Mennonites, Jehovah's Witnesses, 7th-Day Adventists, and the majority of ministers in the United Pentecostal Church have sided with the pope of Rome on this issue. They seem to be singing a quartet of unbelief by rationalizing that the words of Christ are not literally true! This is both peculiar and highly suspect.
Have you every stopped to count the days from Friday to Sunday? Strictly speaking, the count of two nights and one day is the best that can be done with this traditional period of time. But, we hear Jesus speaking from Matthew 12:40, "FOR AS JONAH WAS THREE DAYS AND THREE NIGHTS IN THE WHALE'S BELLY; SO SHALL THE SON OF MAN BE THREE DAYS AND THREE NIGHTS IN THE HEART OF THE EARTH." Evidently the 7th-Day Adventists can count to seven, but they cannot count to three!
This means then that Christ had to be crucified on Wednesday to be in the earth three days AND THREE NIGHTS. It is of no use of the world's trying to get around it, there is absolutely no other way for Him to have been in the grave three days and three nights unless he was placed there on a Wednesday. Mark 8:31, "...and AFTER three days rise again." Christ himself defined the length of a day, "Are there not twelve hours in a day?" (John 11:9). Thus the "inclusive reckoning" idea cannot be applied here, for it is of course implied that there must also be twelve hours in a night.
We submit that the orthodox view fails, and those who teach it are nullifying the sign of the prophet Jonah. "For the Jews require a sign" (1 Cor. 1:22). When the Pharisees had requested a sign that he was the true Messiah, there was no other sign given but that one! No wonder Satan has caused unbelievers to scoff at the story of Jonah and the great fish. Most Christian churches today are contradicting even his accusers, for it was they who said to Pilate, "Sir, we remember that that deceiver said, while he was yet alive, AFTER three days I will rise again..." (Mat. 27:63). If we say that he did not do what he said he would do, then he would be a liar, and how could a liar be our Saviour? He would be an impostor, and in need of a Saviour himself!
The entire crucifixion and resurrection event is the miraculous sign Jesus offered to the unbelieving Jews of his messiahship. It includes the "three days and three nights" duration of his entombment. Therefore, this Scriptural truth ought not be overlooked, forgotten, or diminished in any way. If was the Jewish belief at that time that when a person died his spirit remained within his body for three days. Jesus had to be in the tomb for three days, not only to fulfill His own prophecy concerning Himself, but also to keep the Jews from claiming that he had not really been dead. To teach Good Friday is to give the unbelieving Jews just one more reason to not believe. Certainly none of the apostles could have ever done such a thing. |
leftin1991
Intermediate Member
Username: leftin1991
Post Number: 158
Registered: 11-2004
Posted From: 63.25.30.255
| | Posted on Sunday, April 09, 2006 - 7:40 am: |
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The thing that confuses people is that the scripture says the day on which Jesus was crucified was the preparation for the sabbath because it was the day before the sabbath. Nevertheless, we must remember that Paul speaks of sabbath days. There was the seventh-day sabbath, and there were seven other days of rest, given in Leviticus 23, which could fall on any days of the week, and they were all called high sabbaths. If was for one of these such days that the Jews were preparing. John 19:31, "for that sabbath day was an high day..." Passover was not usually a Sabbath, but is the preparation for the first day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread, which is one of these seven annual high sabbaths.
The Gospels cannot be harmonized to make Matthew's account of the women's visit late on the Sabbath coincide with their visits on Sunday morning, as reported by the other Gospel writers. While the women's visits to the sepulchre described by Mark, Luke and John took place early Sunday morning, Matthew reports that the women visited the tomb "in the end of the sabbath" and found it empty. Biblical days begin and end at sunset. "As it began to dawn (draw on) toward the first day of the week" therefore means that this visit and the earthquake were late Saturday afternoon at dusk. "Dawn" in this instance (epiphosko), Strongs #2020) does not refer to the rising of the sun. The women came late on the sabbath and found the grave already EMPTY! This same word "epiphosko" is also used in Luke 23:54, "...and the Sabbath drew on."
The foundation of this tradition has its root in pagan antiquity. One of the earliest references to Friday's being a holiday is found in the Mithraism cult, an offshoot of Zoroastrianism. In Persia during the sixth century this day was called Black Friday, and the story goes that Mithras slew a bull one Friday. Subsequently the bull laid in a tomb for three days and supposedly arose on the third day.
The Mithras cult believed that from the blood of this bull sprang forth all life. It was this same pagan cult that was very powerful in Rome before and after the rise of the Catholic organization. The influence of Friday was so strongly felt until the Catholic church associated it with the death and resurrection of Christ. So then, five days after the day they call Palm Sunday comes a day which the people refer to as "Good Friday." Any attempt to reconcile Good Friday with the Scripture is futile. The pope himself cannot prove Good Friday and Easter Sunday to be sanctioned by the Scriptures, nor can anyone else.
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pointlessshrew
Intermediate Member
Username: pointlessshrew
Post Number: 128
Registered: 7-2005
Posted From: 208.157.173.138
| | Posted on Friday, June 09, 2006 - 12:25 am: |
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You are both wrong.
Good Friday is where it is because it fits the liturgical calendar and it what it is because of the Biblical readings in the Mass...no other reason, period.
In His Grace,
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ezekiel_37
Senior Member
Username: ezekiel_37
Post Number: 1111
Registered: 8-2005
Posted From: 24.43.16.51
| | Posted on Sunday, June 11, 2006 - 2:01 pm: |
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Friday is not mentioned, but the Passover is. The Passover BECOMES the HIGH SABBATH, and it does not matter what day of the week that it falls on.
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Sunday after the sabbath, the Mary's return to the grave, He is transfigured. I don't personally care what all religions believe in this regard, but the Word is clear that it is not Friday as His crucifiction day.
Peace in Christ
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