What's Good about the Friday they killed Jesus?

[_SuperDell]

Visiting friends on the South. Schools were out and many government offices, libraries and business closed for "Good Friday".

Just as no school events are held on Wednesdays - that is BTU(Baptist Training Union) night as well as the night for church activities at many of the other churches.

Aside from catering to Christian fables at the expense of other religious groups - What is "good" about Good Friday? That is the day Jesus committed 'suicide by cop' in his time. Supposedly he knew what was going to happen and went along with it.

What is good about the nailing to the cross & killing the guy?

Won't even get into "Ash Wednesday" and all the kids and people running around with ashes marked on their foreheads and even schools let out for it.

[_Quasimodo]

All the best holidays are pagan. The festival of Eastra (the goddess of spring) comes with all kinds of goodies. Most are more enjoyable than being nailed to a cross. Giant bunnies delivering colored and chocolate eggs. Jelly Bellies and of course, Peeps. A recent and most holy addition is Cadbury Cream Eggs. Yum. Religion at it's best.

[_huckelberry]

I always feel Easter is puzzling and uncertain so perhaps it makes sense to bring in spring for emotional support. Eggs and candy are nice.

Good friday on the other hand is clear and concrete. An individual draws attention by telling people they need to find how to be genuinely good themselves instead of just being proud of claiming to be better than outsiders. Somehow people resented that and he was judicially murdered.

Not a happy event but one good to remember.

[_Choyo Chagas]

What is good about the nailing to the cross & killing the guy?

the exemplar

“That is what we must do,” Itin said. “We had reached the same conclusion.” He held a thick book before him and a ripple of nods ran across the watchers. “We have been studying the Bible as Father Mark told us to do, and we have found the answer. God will make a miracle for us, thereby proving that He is watching us. And by this sign we will know Him and go to Him.”
“This is a sign of false pride,” Father Mark said. “God needs no miracles to prove His existence.”
“But we need a miracle!” Itin shouted, and though he wasn’t hu­man there was still the cry of need in his voice. “We have read here of many smaller miracles, loaves, fishes, wine, snakes—many of them, for much smaller reasons. Now all He need do is make a mir­acle and He will bring us all to Him—the wonder of an entire new world worshiping at His throne, as you have told us, Father Mark. And you have told us how important this is. We have discussed this and find that there is only one miracle that is best for this kind of thing.”

during the next hours, father mark was crucified

Of course the Weskers were marvelous craftsmen, and everything had been constructed down to the last detail, following the illustra­tion in the Bible. There was the cross, planted firmly on the top of a small hill, the gleaming metal spikes, the hammer. Father Mark was stripped and draped in a carefully pleated loincloth. They led him out of the church and at the sight of the cross he almost fainted. After that he held his head high and determined to die as he had lived, with faith.

- http://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/ficti ... -ashkelon/ -

( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Streets_of_Ashkelon )

[_cinepro]

Visiting friends on the South. Schools were out and many government offices, libraries and business closed for "Good Friday".

Just as no school events are held on Wednesdays - that is BTU(Baptist Training Union) night as well as the night for church activities at many of the other churches.

Aside from catering to Christian fables at the expense of other religious groups - What is "good" about Good Friday? That is the day Jesus committed 'suicide by cop' in his time. Supposedly he knew what was going to happen and went along with it.

What is good about the nailing to the cross & killing the guy?

Won't even get into "Ash Wednesday" and all the kids and people running around with ashes marked on their foreheads and even schools let out for it.

Are you questioning the use of the term "good"?

The etymology of the term "good" in the context of Good Friday is contested. Some sources claim "good" to simply mean pious or holy,[8] while others contend that it is a corruption of "God Friday". The Oxford English Dictionary supports the first etymology, giving "of a day or season observed as holy by the church" as an archaic sense of good (good, adj. 8c), and providing examples of good tide meaning "Christmas" or "Shrove Tuesday", and Good Wednesday meaning the Wednesday in Holy Week.[9]

In German-speaking countries, Good Friday is generally referred to as Karfreitag (Kar from Old High German kara‚ "bewail", "grieve"‚ "mourn", Freitag for "Friday"): Mourning Friday. The Kar prefix is a cognate of the English word "care" in the sense of cares and woes; it meant mourning. The day is also known as Stiller Freitag ("Silent Friday") and Hoher Freitag ("High Friday, Holy Friday"). In the Nordic countries it is called "The Long Friday".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_Friday

[_moksha]

Won't even get into "Ash Wednesday" and all the kids and people running around with ashes marked on their foreheads and even schools let out for it.

Not to mention Ruby Tuesday and all the hype Super Saturday receives down at the Daily Planet.

[_kairos]

Well as a believer it was good for me and i believe for you and every human on the planet from the beginning until the end. jesus as god sacrificed himself to pay the price /atone for every sin every committed or to be committed, sins which separate us from god and for which we are not good enough ourselves to atone for. so it is good that jesus' sacrifice /death was the only perfect sacrifice acceptable to the father. he did what neither i nor you nor anyone else could do to make ourselves "right with the father". so in that sense it was good.
now as i or anyone accepts what jesus did and believes in him that his sacrifice paid the price, then i respond in service to him-give my life -all that i do and am for the rest of my life.
therein is the way of the christian-what we believe and how we should live. without good friday and jesus' selfless sacrifice, humankind would have no hope. with good friday there is hope!

k

[_Gunnar]

All the best holidays are pagan. The festival of Eastra (the goddess of spring) comes with all kinds of goodies. Most are more enjoyable than being nailed to a cross. Giant bunnies delivering colored and chocolate eggs. Jelly Bellies and of course, Peeps. A recent and most holy addition is Cadbury Cream Eggs. Yum. Religion at it's best.

You can have your Cadbury Cream Eggs! I find them so excessively sweet that they are almost painful to my taste buds.

[_I have a question]

The Good bit is that he wasn't really dead.

[_Quasimodo]

You can have your Cadbury Cream Eggs! I find them so excessively sweet that they are almost painful to my taste buds.

That's probably a very good and healthy thing, Gunnar. I don't have much of a sweet tooth myself. I can eat one or two for strictly devotional reasons every year. Since Joseph was a Prophet, I wonder why he didn't cast his mind far into the future and add Cadbury Cream Eggs to the banned items in the Word of Wisdom.