The Myth of Good Friday
Friday, April 2, Christians around the world commemorated the day that Jesus gave his life for the sins of the world. Well, I should say, most Christians. Why most and not all? Not out of some lack of reverence for the fact that Jesus died for us, that's for sure, but because we know the truth....
What truth? The fact of the matter is, Jesus did not die on a Friday afternoon. How do I know this? Count backwards from early Sunday morning three days and three nights, and you don't end up on a Friday afternoon.
There are some things that Jesus said that were figurative, and others that were quite literal. Jesus simply stated that as Jonah was in the belly of the whale three days and three nights, so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth - so says Matthew 12:40. Three days and three nights....
But so many people don't know that the day begins at sundown. Well, not according to Western accounting of time. We start our days at 12 a.m. and end them at 12 a.m. But if anyone ever pays attention to how Jews observe the Sabbath, it becomes apparent, to a degree. Understanding why they do it that way is as simple as reading Genesis 1:5 - And God called the light Day and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day. Interesting!
So what does that have to do with good Friday being a myth? Because it wasn't Friday when Jesus died. If you count backwards three days and three nights from the time that Jesus rose form the dead - and the women who went to embalm and anoint his body went at the crack of dawn on a Sunday morning (the day after the Sabbath), then you end up on...let's see...if Sunday officially begins on what we would consider Saturday evening, then Jesus was crucified on a Wednesday afternoon...and had to be buried by sundown, which began Thursday...
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