Desert News gets the date of the Last Supper wrong in order to aggrandise Jeff Holland

[IHAQ]

On the Thursday evening before Easter — exactly the same time that the Savior was meeting with his Apostles for the Last Supper millennia ago — Elder Jeffrey R. Holland of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles spoke about Jesus Christ and peace.

https://www.thechurchnews.com/leaders-a ... ion-250965
Exactly the same time? Really?

Historians estimate that the date of the crucifixion fell in the range AD 30–36.[38][39][40] Isaac Newton and Colin Humphreys have ruled out the years 31, 32, 35, and 36 on astronomical grounds, leaving 7 April AD 30 and 3 April AD 33 as possible crucifixion dates.[41] Humphreys 2011, pp. 72, 189 proposes narrowing down the date of the Last Supper as having occurred in the evening of Wednesday, 1 April AD 33, by revising Annie Jaubert's double-Passover theory.

Historically, various attempts to reconcile the three synoptic accounts with John have been made, some of which are indicated in the Last Supper by Francis Mershman in the 1912 Catholic Encyclopedia.[42] The Maundy Thursday church tradition assumes that the Last Supper was held on the evening before the crucifixion day (although, strictly speaking, in no Gospel is it unequivocally said that this meal took place on the night before Jesus died).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_Supp ... _and_place

One hopes Sara Jane Weaver will correct her misleading propaganda piece article…

Also, Elder Holland is quoted in the article as saying…

This is the Church of the happy endings.

You simply cannot make this kind of stuff up…

[Dr. Shades]

Also, Elder Holland is quoted in the article as saying…

This is the Church of the happy endings.

If that was true, I wouldn't've left it.

[Fence Sitter]

Well at least we know the exact date of the Council of Elrond.

[drumdude]

The eye of Sauron was defeated and the ring cast into the volcano on a Wednesday, if I recall correctly.

[Moksha]

So what is so terrible about the Saints picking the date established by the Catholic Church for the Last Supper? Makes more sense than insisting it was at some July 24th picnic in Missouri.




From the Wikipedia:

Early Christianity observed a ritual meal known as the "agape feast"[a] These "love feasts" were apparently a full meal, with each participant bringing food, and with the meal eaten in a common room.

Proof that the Church should require lazy wards to restore Pot Luck dinners after Church services.

[dastardly stem]

Historians estimate that the date of the crucifixion fell in the range AD 30–36.[38][39][40] Isaac Newton and Colin Humphreys have ruled out the years 31, 32, 35, and 36 on astronomical grounds, leaving 7 April AD 30 and 3 April AD 33 as possible crucifixion dates.[41] Humphreys 2011, pp. 72, 189 proposes narrowing down the date of the Last Supper as having occurred in the evening of Wednesday, 1 April AD 33, by revising Annie Jaubert's double-Passover theory.

Historically, various attempts to reconcile the three synoptic accounts with John have been made, some of which are indicated in the Last Supper by Francis Mershman in the 1912 Catholic Encyclopedia.[42] The Maundy Thursday church tradition assumes that the Last Supper was held on the evening before the crucifixion day (although, strictly speaking, in no Gospel is it unequivocally said that this meal took place on the night before Jesus died).

THat's about as silly a conclusion as the Church saying there was a last supper that happened the Thursday before Easter. I mean Paul never mentions a "last Supper". It was a story added to Jesus' myth decades even after Paul, who wrote letters decades after Jesus, having not known Jesus himself. We're not talking history here. We're talking cute religious story telling and myth making. I wouldn't worry about people's overstatements now.