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[quote=Anonymous][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]
 
Also Easter dates change each year and also differ between mainstream churches and orthodox churches. 
Christmas is always December 25.

The symbolism of Easter is strongly connected to spring/ regeneration, which is also celebrated by Pagan faiths. Christmas date is unlikely to be actual birthday of Christ in winter (indicated by when Roman census count in Jerusalem took place) . However the symbolism of birth of light in the darkness did pay tribute to pagan winter solstice celebrations.

I believe that much of the symbolism is transcendent.[/quote]

Passover's dates change too.

There is no doubt that Christians incorporated local pagan traditions into their celebrations, and chose to celebrate Christmas, a holiday that involves the coming of light into the world, around the winter solstice.

But the reason for Easter's date is to align with a Jewish holiday, not a pagan one as was posted.  [/quote]

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