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Originally Posted by Esaias
On the tradition topic, I was thinking if Jesus had risen on, say Tuesday, then there should be some hint of that in church history, I woukd think there would be some evidence of an entering in or beginning of a first day of the week tradition in opposition to the original facts and understanding of the apostles.
Your post gives much food for thought.  |
Thanks again, Esaias. We are all striving for perfection, after all. I just want the Scriptures to make as much sense as they possibly can this side of the resurrection so I can gain as much truth from them as I possibly can while I dwell in this tabernacle. And this is what makes sense, at least so far.
Otherwise, the earliest tradition I can find is Justin's line from his Dialogues seemingly referring to Sunday being the resurrection day. But I don't have access to his works in Greek to know if he used the word
sabbaton or not. And even if he did, did he inherit a misunderstanding like it seems we have?
So, I think in the same way we have no tradition from the Scriptures regarding the day and date of Christ's birth we would not have a tradition from the Scriptures regarding the day and date of His death and resurrection from the dead.
We don't even know the correct year. If we could say authoritatively it was in our year 33 AD we could trace the calendar back to when Passover would have been, and then we'd know the day of the week. But we cannot do even this, so, this is why there is no accurate church tradition, as far as I can tell, apart from the one we have currently received by translation.
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