It is preached that on Good Friday – Christ was crucified died and buried – and then rose form the dead on Easter Sunday. He laid in the tomb for three days and three nights. That’s 72 hours. This makes Good Friday totally false. If he rose from the dead on Sunday (when Mary Magdeline found the rock rolled away from the tomb entrance Sunday morning and the body of Christ gone) 72 hours before that would mean he had to be crucified on Thursday evening at the earliest and probably earlier in the day on Thursday… not Good Friday as has been preached for so long. It is very basic math. How could this slip by anybody? I believe it happened… but I think they may have the days confused. —Confused about Easter
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Crucified on Thursday, died on Friday. Death by crucifixion was not meant to be quick.
oh for pete’s sake, it’s fictional! it doesn’t have to follow logic.
Friday is the first day, Saturday, the second and Sunday is the third.
Xeno, His death was quick, remember the lashings, the crown of thorns, carrying of the cross which would have weakened Him considerable and the coup de grace was the spear in His side. Remember it was Passover in Jerusalem and Pilate and the Romans didn’t want a riot.
Here’s how Easter should be celebrated:
http://i.imgur.com/zCNH2.gif.
One does not simply walk into Mordor in only three days….
Wait. Perhaps I’m confused.
There’s a lot of things that the bible doesn’t tell you. Like back then there were only 6 days in the calendar week. We didn’t invent Saturday until 1378. This business about god creating the earth in 7 days is a misunderstanding. Most scholars believe that they actually mean that it took god (or as he is known locally, Kevin) 6 days to draw up the blue-prints. Then on the sixth day there was a house party and Sunday Kev was a little hung-over so he rested. Most people also don’t realize that god was an extra-terrestrial being, most likely a Pleatian and Jesus was a genetically enhanced cyborg. SO I highly doubt that crowns of thorns/spears would bother him much since his skeletal structure and muscle tissue were made of highly advanced circuits and extremely durable reinforced steel. Come back and talk to me when you’ve actually read the bible.
INCOMMENSURABLE PARADIGMS: THE EMPIRICAL AND THE THEOLOGICAL
“He had laid in the tomb for three days and three nights. That’s 72 hours. This makes Good Friday totally false.” Confused about Easter
The poster proclaims that he has discovered an empirical discrepancy in the Easter story. The discrepancy relates to matters of purported fact. It leads him to the conclusion that Good Friday story is “totally false.” What he doesn’t understand is that his empirical paradigm, that consisting of careful observation and measurement of empirical or physical particulars, is inapplicable to the theological paradigm, that consisting of the metaphysical particulars of religious belief. It is to the latter that the Easter story belongs.
The proponent of the empirical paradigm – which of course is co-extensive with the modern view – seeks to reduce all existence to a scale of quantitative metrics. Lacking such reduction, existence can have no meaning. But the empirical paradigm is itself a product of a belief, a belief in the efficacy of quantitative metrics. In other words, it cannot be supported by some further set of quantitative metrics. Its justification must lie elsewhere otherwise the prospect of incoherence beckons.
But the theological paradigm, at least in its own view, transcends such metrics. It resides at another level of reality, the metaphysical as opposed to the merely physical. It resides at the level of quality, not simple quantity. However, being a product of revelation, a product of an intuitive insight into the nature of realty itself, the theological paradigm can offer nothing in the way of non-intuitive support. Consequently, the two paradigms, the empirical and the theological, are incommensurable. They are, so to speak, “ships in the night.”
What, then, is the solution to the conundrum of incommensurable paradigms? If there is one, it lies with philosophy, that harmonious reconciliation of the physical and the metaphysical. For it is only by philosophy that the rational and the intuitive can be conjoined. It is our only hope.
A pleasure as always.
Cheerio!
I like Ho!s+’s theory better.
https://i.imgflip.com/6izvv.jpg
Where do you read 3 days and 3 nights? He was buried on Friday before sunset. Friday night is one night. Saturday night is two nights, then Sunday morning He was risen. Why the confusion?
Yours truly
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I know what you mean wheels – if people are this confused about the resurrection part, just imagine how flabbergasted they must be when they get to the end of the old testament.
Wheels hasn’t read the old testament. The only thing he reads is his union contract, to find ways to get out of doing actual work.
Bahahahahahaha!!!!! People still think bible stories are real? LOLOLOL
Cue our resident Pastor of Wheelsboro Baptist Church reminding us that we are all hellbound
Lewis Black explains religion
http://youtu.be/LGrlWOhtj3g
Do you know that He died quickly, Bro Tim? Were you there?
AHAHAHA SHITTY.
Good one.
Wow, you belive that an invisible old man lives somewhere between the clouds and sky that watches every single person on earth just in case they fuck up and have an impure thought so he can send them to a place of fire, torture, misery and eternal damnation and you’re nit picking over a day or two this jesus fella was stuck behind a rock? you’re askin’ the wrong questions son!
The only part I’m confused about is how the fat guy in the red suit gets to all the houses in the world, except the Muzzers, gets his fat arse down the chimney and hides the eggs?
What kind of drunk-ass Easter Bunny do you have in Britain anyway? Red suit? Chimney?
This sounds like a reasonable explanation:
http://carm.org/how-long-was-jesus-dead-to…
It’s everything else I have trouble with.
http://scottsutton.net/wp-content/uploads/…
I am the resurrection of Jesus. .. dont you see my bunny ears?
SHMFD – the UK is a witty mess of contradictions and quaint customs, we have Morris Dancers that aren’t called Morris, weird or what?
Nice one zZzedward. It’s hard to tell but my Avatar is in likeness to the mighty noodle lord.
I thought maybe there was a name change to the Hezbollah Bunny and the red suit was the blood of the infidels on his snow white fur.
Well fake Ivan, just read the books.