Resurrection Day?

[Floatingaxe]

This is a pointless topic. Really. Sorry.

[Guest shiloh357]

I think that it is generally accepted that the Bible indicates that the resurrection occurred on the first day of the week. However, I am not aware of any incontrovertible scripture that says that. I wonder what the doctrine is legitimately based upon?

I don't think a case can be made for a Sabbath resurrection However, "1st day of the week" as understood by the Jews who wrote the New Testament would not necessarily have been "Sunday" as we understand it on our calendar.

The ancient Israelites operated off of a lunar calendar where the days began in the evening. So, "1st day of the week" on a lunar calendar would begin on what would still be "Saturday" on our modern, western calendar.

Typically the picture we have is of Jesus being resurrected sometime early on Sunday morning, since in our culture, the "1st day of the week" begins at midnight on Sunday.

It is not far fetched at all to believe that Jesus would have been resurrected on the 1st day of the week and still have been resurrected in evening on Saturday. It does absolutely no harm to the doctrine of the resurrection and is perfectly valid given the customs of the times, and the fact that God did not circumvent such. The Bible does not give us an exact time, so we can at least say that Jesus was resurrected between the end of the Sabbath and the time that the women came to the tomb.

There is room for those who prefer to believe that Jesus was not resurrected until Sunday, and for those who believe it occurred immediately after the Sabbath, on the 1st day of the week according to a lunar calendar.

[rstrats]

Floatingaxe,

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[Guest shiloh357]

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Edited August 28, 2006 by rstrats

[Floatingaxe]

I rest my case.

[MrsSealedEternal]

Okay, as long as everybody else is throwing their hat into the ring, I may as well to.

The following is an excerpt from a bible tract we were granted permission to use which contain a detailed explanation of the ressurection...

THE FALLACIES OF EASTER

by Charles Halff (Former Director of The Christian Jew Foundation)

THE SIGN OF JONAH

Now, the first fallacy in connection with Easter is that Christ supposedly died on a Friday. May I say, beloved, that Jesus did not die on Good Friday, bad Friday, or any other Friday. The truth of the whole matter is that the Lord Jesus died on a Wednesday. Let's turn to Matthew 12:40 and notice Christ's own prophecy pertaining to His death burial and resurrection:

"For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the whale's belly (or as it reads in the Hebrew-- in the sea monster's belly), so shall the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth."

There is no clearer truth in all the world than Jesus' own specific prophecy of His death, burial, and resurrection. Eleven different times the Bible mentions that our Lord would be dead

[darski]

You do understand that this is then going to head to the "Three days and three nights" debate.

Just a quick reminder that the Jewish day began at 6:00pm The Sabbath/Saturday ended at ~ 5:59 and Sunday started at 6:00pm.

When Mary went to the tomb around dawn(6:00am), Sunday was already almost 12 hours old.

[rstrats]

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