In LL context, today is the day that The Defense Lawyer rose up to enable us to be found not guilty before The Judge so that we may be in the eternal non-smoking home mentioned in John 14:2

Very creative, Rick. Happy Easter.

Easter is a Christian holiday celebrating the resurrection of Jesus Christ, with roots in both Jewish Passover and ancient springtime fertility festivals.

Early Christian Origins

Easter commemorates the resurrection of Jesus Christ, described in the New Testament as occurring on the third day after his crucifixion around 30 CE, making it the cornerstone of Christian faith and the culmination of Holy Week observances. The earliest recorded Easter celebrations date back to the 2nd century, though Christians likely commemorated the Resurrection even earlier. Initially, there was debate over the exact date, with some communities observing it on the 14th of Nisan, coinciding with Jewish Passover, while others celebrated it on the following Sunday, reflecting the day of Jesus’ resurrection.

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".... while others celebrated it on the following Sunday,..."

Safe to say that was incorporated by the Roman Emperor Constantine of the Catholic church. The bible says the Sabbath is Saturday.

Connection to Jewish Passover

Easter’s timing is closely linked to Passover (Pesach), a Jewish festival commemorating the liberation of the Israelites from Egypt. Early Christians observed the Resurrection in relation to Passover, which explains why Easter is a movable feast, calculated based on the lunar calendar rather than a fixed date. The Council of Nicaea in 325 CE standardized Easter as the first Sunday after the first full moon following the vernal equinox, a formula still used by Western Christianity, while Eastern Orthodox churches follow a slightly different calculation based on the Julian calendar.

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Pagan Influences

Before Christianity, many cultures celebrated the vernal equinox with festivals symbolizing fertility, renewal, and rebirth. In Anglo-Saxon traditions, the goddess Eostre was honored in spring, with symbols like eggs and hares representing new life. These pagan customs were gradually incorporated into Christian Easter celebrations, influencing secular traditions such as Easter eggs and the Easter Bunny.

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Liturgical and Cultural Development

Easter is preceded by Lent, a 40-day period of fasting, prayer, and penance, culminating in Holy Week, which includes Palm Sunday, Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, and Holy Saturday. The Easter season, or Eastertide, lasts seven weeks, ending on Pentecost Sunday in Western Christianity, while Eastern Christianity observes slightly different liturgical timings. Over centuries, Easter has evolved into a global celebration, blending religious observances with cultural and family traditions, reflecting both its sacred origins and broader societal influences.

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Summary

Easter’s history is a rich tapestry combining early Christian theology, Jewish heritage, and pre-Christian spring rituals. Its observance has been shaped by theological debates, ecclesiastical councils, and cultural adaptations, making it both a deeply religious festival and a widely celebrated cultural holiday around the world.

Interesting how things change over time. Also, interesting how they got started in the first place, as far as we can tell anyway. Some written history is lacking.

"Safe to say that was incorporated by the Roman Emperor Constantine of the Catholic church. The bible says the Sabbath is Saturday."

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The Jewish Sabbath is Saturday, because that's the day God rested after Creation.

The Christian Sabbath is Sunday, because that's the day of the Resurrection.

The shift from Saturday Sabbath to Sunday worship in Christianity was gradual, influenced by early church leaders and Roman political authority, culminating with Emperor Constantine’s decree in A.D. 321.

Early Christian Practices

Initially, Christians observed the Sabbath on Saturday, following Jewish tradition, while also gathering on Sunday to commemorate Jesus Christ’s resurrection. This dual observance began to evolve after the Jewish revolt under Bar Kokhba (A.D. 132–135), when Christians sought to distinguish themselves from Judaism due to Roman persecution. By the second century, writings from church fathers like Ignatius, Justin Martyr, Irenaeus, and Clement of Alexandria began to challenge strict Sabbath observance, promoting Sunday as the primary day of worship.

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Political and Ecclesiastical Influence

The most significant legal shift occurred in A.D. 321, when Roman Emperor Constantine, who had converted to Christianity, issued a civil decree mandating rest on Sunday, the “venerable day of the sun”, while allowing agricultural work to continue in the countryside. This law effectively elevated Sunday as a day of rest and worship across the Roman Empire.

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Later, the Council of Laodicea (around A.D. 365) reinforced this change by discouraging Sabbath observance on Saturday, making Sunday the official day of Christian worship. By the fourth and sixth centuries, influential theologians like Augustine and St. Caesarius of Arles further endorsed Sunday observance, framing it as the fulfillment of the Sabbath under church authority.

In the bible, when they reached the tomb, he was already gone.

He did not rise on Sunday but rather was already gone on that early Sunday morning.

The bible also teaches that Jesus is the same yesterday, today and forever. Why would he change the Sabbath to Sunday?

He didn't. The church did.

I learned this long before AI.

Constantine's Edict of Milan (AD 313 AD) legalized not just Christianity, but also granted freedom for all subjects to worship as they chose. Freedom of Religion is a good thing. :) A lot of times, religion was directly tied to the State, and being in the wrong religion was seen as being subversive to the State. Being deemed a traitor earned you the death penalty. See: Elizabethan England, modern China, etc.

The Epistle of Ignatius to the Magnesians was written c. AD 110.

If, therefore, those who were brought up in the ancient order of things have come to the possession of a new hope, no longer observing the Sabbath, but living in the observance of the Lord's Day, on which also our life has sprung up again by Him and by His death — whom some deny, by which mystery we have obtained faith, and therefore endure, that we may be found the disciples of Jesus Christ, our only Master — how shall we be able to live apart from Him, whose disciples the prophets themselves in the Spirit did wait for Him as their Teacher? And therefore He whom they rightly waited for, having come, raised them from the dead. (<--ref to Matthew 27:52)

So, that's at least 200 years before Constantine where they're pinning their holy day to Sunday.

The Epistle of Barnabas was written sometime between AD 70-135.

...Further, He says to them, Your new moons and your Sabbath I cannot endure. Isaiah 1:13 You perceive how He speaks: Your present Sabbaths are not acceptable to Me, but that is which I have made, [namely this,] when, giving rest to all things, I shall make a beginning of the eighth day, that is, a beginning of another world. Wherefore, also, we keep the eighth day with joyfulness, the day also on which Jesus rose again from the dead...

Another famous mention is Justin Martyr in his First Apology (c. AD 155–157) to Emperor Antoninus Pius.

And we afterwards continually remind each other of these things. And the wealthy among us help the needy; and we always keep together; and for all things wherewith we are supplied, we bless the Maker of all through His Son Jesus Christ, and through the Holy Ghost. And on the day called Sunday, all who live in cities or in the country gather together to one place, and the memoirs of the apostles or the writings of the prophets are read, as long as time permits; then, when the reader has ceased, the president verbally instructs, and exhorts to the imitation of these good things. Then we all rise together and pray, and, as we before said, when our prayer is ended, bread and wine and water are brought, and the president in like manner offers prayers and thanksgivings, according to his ability,1914 and the people assent, saying Amen; and there is a distribution to each, and a participation of that over which thanks have been given, and to those who are absent a portion is sent by the deacons. And they who are well to do, and willing, give what each thinks fit; and what is collected is deposited with the president, who succours the orphans and widows and those who, through sickness or any other cause, are in want, and those who are in bonds and the strangers sojourning among us, and in a word takes care of all who are in need. But Sunday is the day on which we all hold our common assembly, because it is the first day on which God, having wrought a change in the darkness and matter, made the world; and Jesus Christ our Saviour on the same day rose from the dead. For He was crucified on the day before that of Saturn (Saturday); and on the day after that of Saturn, which is the day of the Sun, having appeared to His apostles and disciples, He taught them these things, which we have submitted to you also for your consideration.

You also have later writers, like Tertullian (AD 202) who's the first one to explicitly mention Sunday as not just a day of communal worship, but also a day of rest for the Christians.

When something is told as truth for decades or centuries, people forget the past and start excepting what they are taught as truth.

Question of the day: Can and do preachers lie?

Perhaps they don't lie with intention as they are just teaching what they were taught without verifying it.

Personally, I don't really care what day someone wants to choose, but it would be nice if the truth were really told and then an option given. However, instead things are taught as being only one "truth" and that you follow that or else.

When reading the entire bible with an open mind and forgetting the brainwashing you were taught by many, you discover reality of the bible. You also discover why the bible is written like it is and the character of those who wrote it.

Rick,

Thanks! Clever!

I am so thankful for the cross.

Resurrection "Day": The Hebrew "day" starts at sunset, modern day 6pm until the next sunset.

Genesis 1:5 "And there was evening, and there was morning — the first day."

When we visited Israel we arrived about 4pm and people were scurrying, hustling. By 6 pm the streets were TOTALLY empty and shops closed for the Sabbath.

We reached the hotel for supper, served by Muslims because THEIR Sabbath is a different day.