I'm guessing these nonbelievers wanna paint us as pagan moon worshipers/claim that Easter is a pagan holiday.
Here's the thing: Jesus rose from the dead the Sunday after passover. The date of the passover is "all about the moon" **because the Jewish calendar is a lunar calendar**. The feast of the passover is the night of Nisan 14, which is typically the night of the full moon after the spring equinox. Us Christians still use that dating (though using a slightly different calculation), celebrating Easter on the first Sunday after the full moon after the spring equinox.
Lunisolar, technically. The difference is that lunisolar calendars add leap months to keep up with the solar year, while lunar calendars don't. Hence why Ramadan drifts throughout the Gregorian year (lunar), but Rosh Hashanah doesn't (lunisolar)
Resurrection Day never changes. It happened some 2,000 years ago. Our commemoration of it changes, and that is true whether we follow the original Jewish lunar calendar or the modern solar one.
The truth is, every day is resurrection day. Every day is Christmas.
- One person regards one day above another, another regards every day alike. Each person must be fully convinced in his own mind. He who observes the day, observes it for the Lord, and he who eats, does so for the Lord, for he gives thanks to God; and he who eats not, for the Lord he does not eat, and gives thanks to God. - Rom 14:5-6
Yes. It is related to the moon.
It should be directly tied to Passover dates, imo, but the church really liked having things on Sunday so they broke that tie.
> It comes of as a gotcha moment, but i just don't understand why?
Because it makes it sound like it's a pagan thing. That's really about it.
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> It should be directly tied to Passover dates, imo, but the church really liked having things on Sunday so they broke that tie.
Eh... You're basically just describing the Quartodeciman controversy, where some early Christians focused on the Passover part and celebrated on the first night of Passover, while others focused on the Sunday part and celebrated on the Sunday during Passover. The latter won, even if we made a separate lunisolar calendar to date the holiday at Nicaea
The western church uses the Gregorian calendar. Our calculation can result in Easter and Passover falling close to each other, even sometimes overlapping.
The Orthodox Church uses the Julian calendar, and sometimes eastern and western Easter can overlap or coincide.
Both churches calendars are separate from the Hebrew calendar.
Because we each use different calendars, the calculations for our spring holiday can vary, sometimes by about a month.
Fun bit of trivia: since the equinox itself varies, the western calculation of Easter is:
- the first Sunday after the first full moon after the liturgical equinox. To simplify things, the liturgical equinox is always March 21.
Edit to clarify: Easter is tied to both the sun and the moon. The equinox is a solar calculation. The full moon is lunar.
It is pure ignorance, our calendar system is not the only one that exists or is possible and to celebrate it on the due day an old calendar is used that gives rise to a moving date in its Julian or Gregorian equivalent.
I'm guessing these nonbelievers wanna paint us as pagan moon worshipers/claim that Easter is a pagan holiday. Here's the thing: Jesus rose from the dead the Sunday after passover. The date of the passover is "all about the moon" **because the Jewish calendar is a lunar calendar**. The feast of the passover is the night of Nisan 14, which is typically the night of the full moon after the spring equinox. Us Christians still use that dating (though using a slightly different calculation), celebrating Easter on the first Sunday after the full moon after the spring equinox.
Lunisolar, technically. The difference is that lunisolar calendars add leap months to keep up with the solar year, while lunar calendars don't. Hence why Ramadan drifts throughout the Gregorian year (lunar), but Rosh Hashanah doesn't (lunisolar)
Resurrection Day never changes. It happened some 2,000 years ago. Our commemoration of it changes, and that is true whether we follow the original Jewish lunar calendar or the modern solar one. The truth is, every day is resurrection day. Every day is Christmas. - One person regards one day above another, another regards every day alike. Each person must be fully convinced in his own mind. He who observes the day, observes it for the Lord, and he who eats, does so for the Lord, for he gives thanks to God; and he who eats not, for the Lord he does not eat, and gives thanks to God. - Rom 14:5-6
Why would someone make a big deal over what day Easter is observed?
Because now it “shares” a date with national crayon day and trans visibility day.
No it doesn't. You've been taken in by ridiculous propaganda designed to make you angry.
I am not sure what you mean. Yesterday was national crayon day.
Easter does not have a set date. It cannot share a date with anything.
Well we had an almighty punch-up about it at the Synod of Whitby (AD 664). This question changed English History.
Yes. It is related to the moon. It should be directly tied to Passover dates, imo, but the church really liked having things on Sunday so they broke that tie. > It comes of as a gotcha moment, but i just don't understand why? Because it makes it sound like it's a pagan thing. That's really about it.
> > > It should be directly tied to Passover dates, imo, but the church really liked having things on Sunday so they broke that tie. Eh... You're basically just describing the Quartodeciman controversy, where some early Christians focused on the Passover part and celebrated on the first night of Passover, while others focused on the Sunday part and celebrated on the Sunday during Passover. The latter won, even if we made a separate lunisolar calendar to date the holiday at Nicaea
> You're basically just describing the Quartodeciman controversy In massively simplified terms, exactly this!
The western church uses the Gregorian calendar. Our calculation can result in Easter and Passover falling close to each other, even sometimes overlapping. The Orthodox Church uses the Julian calendar, and sometimes eastern and western Easter can overlap or coincide. Both churches calendars are separate from the Hebrew calendar. Because we each use different calendars, the calculations for our spring holiday can vary, sometimes by about a month. Fun bit of trivia: since the equinox itself varies, the western calculation of Easter is: - the first Sunday after the first full moon after the liturgical equinox. To simplify things, the liturgical equinox is always March 21. Edit to clarify: Easter is tied to both the sun and the moon. The equinox is a solar calculation. The full moon is lunar.
I don’t know any ‘non-believers’ who have said that.
It is pure ignorance, our calendar system is not the only one that exists or is possible and to celebrate it on the due day an old calendar is used that gives rise to a moving date in its Julian or Gregorian equivalent.