Why is it called Good Friday?

[boomhauer]

 

[momof3disneyholics]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_Friday

 

[Pop Daddy]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_Friday

lol, dont ya hate it when ya get an answer to a rhetorical question

 

[GoofyJeff]

It's called Good Friday because it, not Easter, is the day when Christ paid for our sins and saved us. Easter is the visible proof that God accepted His Son’s sacrifice on our behalf.

 

[KikiFan]

It's funny you asked Cause I've always felt like the name was inappropriate (I get the explanation about it being a Holy day - it just still felt wrong) But today I got my daily email from Positive Christianity and they had a lovely answer:

Why do they call Good Friday “good” when it was the day that Jesus was
crucified?

To all appearances it was the end.
To all human senses the worst of humankind seemed to be victorious.

IT WAS GOOD BECAUSE—THERE WAS MORE!

It was just the darkness before the dawn – The dawn of awakened humanity.

Jesus rose as he said he would. Jesus was not confined to the tomb.

Jesus lives, and his teachings live, because of what happened on Easter
weekend.

There is one obscene word in the vocabulary of a Christian and that word
is "hopeless."

The hope that Christ gives us is best expressed in the language of a
five-year-old boy who was on his first ride on a train. When the train had
plunged into the first tunnel and blackness enveloped them, the boy gasped
in surprise. Suddenly, the train cleared the tunnel and daylight took over
again. And the boy exclaimed: "It's tomorrow, today!”

In Jesus Christ, we have always found it to be so: It is tomorrow, today!

If you're coming from the same place I was, maybe this helps?

 

[JR6ooo4]

It's called Good Friday because it, not Easter, is the day when Christ paid for our sins and saved us. Easter is the visible proof that God accepted His Son’s sacrifice on our behalf.

Wow, even back then there was a three day backlog in processing. Hehheheheee

Mikeeee

 

[JR6ooo4]

lol, dont ya hate it when ya get an answer to a rhetorical question

No?

 

[dejr_8]

I was taught that it is called Good Friday because it is the day that Jesus died and it wouldn't be appropriate to call it Holy Friday.

Remember that yesterday is called Holy Thursday and tomorrow is Holy Saturday.