Any part of the 24 hr day, beginning with Saturday evening, equals the whole day, whether it was still dark in the morning or not, and so it's of no importance. If you knew anything about Orthodox Christian Pascha, you would know that we are in Church celebrating it with Divine Liturgy just after midnight following Holy Saturday and beginning Sunday, when it is still dark outside and we are feasting usually before 3 AM on things we have not eaten for over 40 days and nights preceding Holy Week. For us it is the 3rd day, and "Christ is risen from the dead, trampling down death by death". It is a feast that is prepared for by prayer and fasting and meditation upon Holy Scripture and the lives of the saints, beginning almost 60 days in advance. Evil pagans who don't know Christ do not do such things. Only those who are taught by Christ and strive to keep His commandments do such things. There is nothing contrary to the righteousness of God within Orthodox Christian doctrine and practice, and so we cannot be affected by any nonsensical claims of worshipping falsely.
All that you saying doesn't change the fact that most of the world deal with Good Friday to Easter Sunday Morning. This thread is about the true death and resurrection of Jesus Christ according to the Bible. There's no need for anybody to add to the word of God.
Pascha (Greek: Πάσχα), also called
Easter, is the feast of the
Resurrection of the Lord.
Pascha is a transliteration of the Greek word, which is itself a transliteration of the Aramaic
pascha, from the Hebrew
pesach meaning
Passover. A minority of English-speaking Orthodox prefer the English word "Pasch."
Easter was named after Eostre (sometimes spelled Eastre), the great Anglo-Saxon goddess of spring, fertility, and new life. Similar Teutonic dawn goddesses of fertility were known variously as Ostare, Ostara, Ostern, Eostra, Eostur, Eastra, Eastur, Austron and Ausos. Her name was derived from the ancient word for spring: "eastre." Thus it is easy to see how "Eastre time" became "Easter time".
Easter Sunday falls on the first Sunday after the first full moon after March 20th, the nominal date of the Vernal (sometimes referred to as spring) Equinox. This is the day (or period of days) in spring when the days and nights are of approximately equal length. This is a time of celebrating new life, the resurrection of nature from the dead, and it has typically featured fertility rites, merrymaking, and usually centers on orgiastic sexual activities. In ancient times there were the sacrificing of virgins, the worship of fertility gods and goddesses.
One will not find that its observance is supported by the bible. And that is because, Easter itself is supposed to be a commemoration of the resurrection of Jesus. And
Jesus told us to commemorate His death, not His resurrection. Luke (22:19) And he took bread, and gave thanks, and brake it, and gave unto them, saying,
This is my body which is given for you: this do in remembrance of me.
In reading chapter 22 of the Gospel of Luke one will find that Jesus asked this of His disciples during the Passover meal.
The Passover is what Jesus asked us to observe to remind ourselves that He died for us not Easter. Jesus asked us to commemorate the Passover. He was not only to die on the Passover, He became our Passove.
Jesus says in (Matthew 12:38) Then certain of the scribes and of the Pharisees answered, saying, Master, we would see a sign from thee. 39 But he answered and said unto them,
An evil and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign; and there shall no sign be given to it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas: 40
For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale's belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.
Three days and three nights, out of the mouth of Jesus himself! Get me that from Good Friday to Easter Sunday Morning!
