Revelation 21 10-27

[Doubting Thomas]

Have you ever looked into how they determine the date of Easter Sunday - for instance. Obviously - if it was a REAL DATE - it would change days every tear - and not always fall on a Sunday

The ecclesiastical rules are:

Easter falls on the first Sunday following the first ecclesiastical full moon that occurs on or after the day of the vernal equinox;
this particular ecclesiastical full moon is the 14th day of a tabular lunation (new moon); and
the vernal equinox is fixed as March 21.


Worse - in the Eastern rite - the equinox is fixed as the 21 on the Julian Calendar - while the Roman date is based on the Gregorian Calendar.

And - of course - Easter Sunday starts at 12:01 AM of the Sunday no matter where you are on earth - while the Equinox happens at ONE TIME - which would be a different time around the world

So - the earliest Easter Sunday can be is March 22nd - and the Latest it can be is April 25th - WOW - a span of over a month! Makes no real sense to anyone

Meh, it's all symbolic anyway. Christianity mainly appropriated the pagan Easter holiday in order to placate and convert all the pagans who refused to stop celebrating their special holidays. That's why you'll find that most Christian holidays fall on or near the dates for pagan holidays. This is why we still have colored eggs and bunnies as part of the Easter holiday. There's nothing biblical about finding hidden colored eggs, but it can be traced back to other non-Christian religions.

Like Halloween for instance... the Catholic church just happened to come up with "All Souls Day" on November 1. The pagans were celebrating (IIRC) the souls of the dead wandering the earth again, so the church decided to Christianize it by celebrating all the faithful departed.

Christmas was invented to celebrate Jesus' birth, which would have been in the spring since in the myth the shepherds were "laying with their flock" which they only did during the spring lambing season in order to protect the lambs from predators. However, the church decided to co-opt the pagan winter solstice holiday.

So it doesn't really matter when they celebrate their holidays since most likely all their holidays are based on the wrong dates, which, if the bible myths are true in the first place, they didn't even have calendars back then as far as I know, but would be impossible to know the exact dates anyway since none were written down.