When was easter

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person one. You don’t understand. The Church did not choose the date of Easter. He was crucified At passover. And instead of sticking to making passover the date of Easter. They did what everyone else does. And that’s stick to the day. That it happened.
person 2 The events recorded in Acts 12:3-4 occurred during the days of unleavened bread. In other words, the Passover in that particular year had passed: it was history: it had gone. Why, then, would Herod wait for an event which had already passed? Surely Herod knew that the Passover had passed and that the days of unleavened bread were in progress.
Who is wrong here. Person 2 claimed that the date of easter is pagan.
 
So, it was the last day of unleavened bread, brought about into passover, which succeeded it. Stuff changes from time to time in the Jewish traditions, obviously in some state of flux or something there, or at the other end, misinformation from the actual day of passover itself carried on through historical inaccuracy’s, not biblical.

Regardless, it could be in the middle of August and we recognize it now, it happened already, we are now in the past tense of it all, the annual calendar is only for mans use, the cosmic happening of that action transcends the when and even where elements all together.
 
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person one. You don’t understand. The Church did not choose the date of Easter. He was crucified At passover. And instead of sticking to making passover the date of Easter. They did what everyone else does. And that’s stick to the day. That it happened.
person 2 The events recorded in Acts 12:3-4 occurred during the days of unleavened bread. In other words, the Passover in that particular year had passed: it was history: it had gone. Why, then, would Herod wait for an event which had already passed? Surely Herod knew that the Passover had passed and that the days of unleavened bread were in progress.
Who is wrong here. Person 2 claimed that the date of easter is pagan.
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The “Easter is pagan” is a non-argument with a long history. The Church celebrates Easter as the Feast of the Lord’s Resurrection, in spite of, not because of, any other ancient pagan festivals. The adaptation of seasonal traditions to Easter celebrations are natural cultural developments having nothing to do with the validity of the Feast.

Person 2 is in error in believing that the events in Acts 12 occurred in the same year as the Crucifixion. James was executed in about 42. So that argument is non-sequitor.
 
Jesus was crucified on Friday, April 7th (Nisan 14 in the Jewish calendar; which is the preparation day of the Passover and that year also the preparation day of the Sabbath), and He rose from the dead on April 9th (Nisan 16, during Passover, on the day of the waive offering, when the first fruits from the fields are cut and brought to the temple).
 
“The problem here is which Jewish calendar is used to determine date. If Jesus died on Friday April 3, 33CE, which is a popular notion, then it was either Nisan 14, Passover eve, or Nisan 16, Passover 2. The Friday assumption is most popular, because of tradition and an incorrect interpretation of NT texts. As Passover 1, Nisan 15, is a high sabbath, it is highly unlikely that any Jewish leaders would have been involved as is suggested in the NT texts.”
His statement not mine. He also says that the 6th hour is “presumably midday”
 
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His statement not mine. He also says that the 6th hour is “presumably midday”
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Midday if referencing the Hebrew day, not so if the Roman one.

Ask him what difference it makes? We worship the Living God, not a calendar.
 
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