2007-04-06 20:08:29 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
The date for Easter has to do with the lunar calendar; the date for Christmas was fixed on the Gregorian calendar, which is a solar calendar.
2007-04-06 20:11:47 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Christmas is a set date, December 25th. However, EAster is not a set date. It is actually a day that revolves around the Jewish holiday of Passover. Therefore, whereas all other holidays that we have are based on a calendar that follows the sun, Easter is the only holiday that switches calendars and uses the Hebrew calendar which is based on the moon. So, that is the reason why Easter moves yearly. It is supposed to coincide with Passover and it uses the moon as the calendar, so the holiday is not a stable holiday as are all the other holidays. Remember the Jewish Calendar is completely different from ours, they have a different number of months and are on a completely different year (sorry I always forget what year it is).
2007-04-07 03:16:40 · answer #2 · answered by lochmessy 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Christmas and Easter were decreed by the Romans to be on those dates as the pagans were already celebrating their Yuletide, The winter solistace when the days were starting to get longer again. Easter was the pagans fertility festivals (Hence easter rabbits and eggs), The Romans did not want to really piss of the pagans so they moved the christian festivals to fit in with the pagan ones. Easter is really named after the pagan goddess of fertility "Eostre",
2007-04-07 03:47:01 · answer #3 · answered by Helena N 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because you have Good Friday and that has to be on a Friday and Jesus raised three days later which was on a Sunday! So to answer your question those have to be on Friday and Sunday and that always falls on different dates as to where Christmas is always on the 25 and don't have a specific day it has to be on.
2007-04-07 03:13:11 · answer #4 · answered by Britni 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Easter falls on the first Sunday following the first ecclesiastical full moon that occurs on or after March 21 (the day of the ecclesiastical vernal equinox).
This particular ecclesiastical full moon is the 14th day of a tabular lunation (new moon).
2007-04-07 03:13:46 · answer #5 · answered by Judas. S. Burroughs. 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Because it is tied into the time of the passover and the Passover is a movable date. Both Passover and Easter are tied to the cycle of the lunar year.
2007-04-07 03:11:49 · answer #6 · answered by tonks_op 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because when the Easter rabbit freed Jesus from the cross and they both took their stealth jets across the red sea to bomb the crap out of those heathen types that god wanted to be put to death because they laughed at a bald man, err, I think, that was the bible story? Does it have a familiar bible type ring to it?
2007-04-07 03:15:00 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
they changed it so that it would always fall on a Sunday, regardless of the date.
2007-04-07 03:11:36 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Semantics,the day symbolizes the day Jesus rose and we give Him honor.
2007-04-07 03:13:08 · answer #9 · answered by gwhiz1052 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
because crystrian churc's calendar is a moon calendar,m not like our everyday calendar
2007-04-07 03:12:00 · answer #10 · answered by Poseidon 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋