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Originally Posted by sugarbug ->
OOPs I edit my post thinking it might be a wee bit rude lol

poor shortdogs we all pick him …

Can you imagine him with chocolate ..
his brain will be working over time ...
It always is sugarbug.
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Wasn't Good Friday something to do with Jesus taking away the sins of the world?
Well I guess that the good part of it ,
It like good news bad news …

We sinned he dies , peoples are still sinning ,
so in that case, what good came out of it …
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Originally Posted by sugarbug ->
Well I guess that the good part of it ,
It like good news bad news …

We sinned he dies , peoples are still sinning ,
so in that case, what good came out of it
None, but he was still a nice guy.......and we all eat too much chocolate!
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18-04-2019, 02:24 PM
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Re: Good friday ..

I've occasionally wondered, too ..... but it seems that there's no clear answer:

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

Etymology

A common folk etymology claims "Good Friday" is a corruption of "God Friday". The term in fact comes from the sense "pious, holy" of the word good. The Oxford English Dictionary also gives other examples with the sense "of a day or season observed as holy by the church" as an archaic sense of good (good, adj.) as in good tide meaning "Christmas" or "Shrove Tuesday", and Good Wednesday meaning the Wednesday in Holy Week.

Other languages

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". In Greek, Polish and Hungarian, Good Friday is generally referred to as Great Friday (Μεγάλη Παρασκευή, Wielki Piątek, Nagypéntek). In Bulgarian, Good Friday is called either Велики петък - Great Friday, or, more commonly, Разпети петък (approximate pronunciation 'razpeti petak') which literally translates to "Crucified Friday".
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18-04-2019, 02:25 PM
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I always knew it to be because Good is another way of saying Godly or Holy.

Holy Friday would make more sense.
On Good Friday, Christ was crucified, and after a long and protracted agony died at 3pm.
Christians believe that he died to save mankind from its sins.
Hence Holy, or Good, Friday.
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As has been written it's Good Friday because for Christians it was the day on which Jesus having accepted the sins of all who accepted his offer of salvation then and for ever into the future willingly suffered the punishment for those sins.
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Originally Posted by sugarbug ->
Well I guess that the good part of it ,
It like good news bad news …

We sinned he dies , peoples are still sinning ,
so in that case, what good came out of it …
Christians believe that Jesus, the son of God, sacrificed himself so that mankind could have a chance of redemption.

That is, that because of that sacrifice, people who truly repent then had the chance of going to Heaven, instead of just being damned.

That's why the prayer goes: Jesus Christ who took away the sins of the world.

It was like a clean sweep, starting over, with the chance to make good.
If you don't make good, that's it, you're damned, but if you do make good, then you have the chance of going to Heaven.
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18-04-2019, 02:31 PM
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Another thing that confuses me ...
When he resurrected , what happen then
did he get reincarnated in to a bunny ????
How did it become Easter ...
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Originally Posted by sugarbug ->
Another thing that confuses me ...
When he resurrected , what happen then
did he get reincarnated in to a bunny ????
How did it become Easter ...
That's the Christian religion combining with the pagan Spring festival.
Just as Christmas merged with the pagan midwinter festival.

The Spring hare was a symbol of fertility.
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18-04-2019, 02:41 PM
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Re: Good friday ..

In the Nordic countries it is called "The Long Friday".

I wonder if that is where longdogs is from …

I believe Silent Friday is that best name ..

Holy Friday is as bad as Good Friday ..
because they do put a lot of nails holes in him, makes him holy ...

Seriously , Have a Happy Easter everyone ..
 
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