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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Fascinating!

How does this fit in with the knowledge that Christian religious holidays were set to coincide with already existing Pagan holidays?

e.g., Christmas is set right after the winter solstice, the  Yuletide festival,  when days were just starting to get longer again, and Easter, whose date changes yearly, is the 1st  Sunday, after the first full moon, after the vernal equinox.

Also, it's interesting that science is being used as a method to verify the Crucifixion.  Faith, not science, is the basis of religion.

Faith is required to believe in the resurrection, which defies science.[/quote]

Easter is set to align with Passover.  Passover is aligned with spring, but the NT is pretty clear that Jesus was crucified at Passover.  [/quote]

As per Wikipedia, on Easter and Passover:

the date of Easter is determined in each year through a calculation known as computus (Latin for 'computation').[3] Easter is celebrated on the first Sunday after the Paschal full moon, which is the first full moon on or after 21 March (a fixed approximation of the March equinox). Determining this date in advance requires a correlation between the lunar months and the solar year, while also accounting for the month, date, and weekday of the Julian or Gregorian calendar.[4] The complexity of the algorithm arises because of the desire to associate the date of Easter with the date of the Jewish feast of Passover which, Christians believe, is when Jesus was crucified.[5]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Date_of_Easter

These are the facts regarding when Easter and Passover are observed;.

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