Which is the most important day in Christianity?

Commotion Ocean

Is it:

Christmas day ? - the birth of Jesus Christ

Or

Good Friday - the day He was crucified for our sins

Or

Easter Sunday - the day He rose from the dead to give us everlasting life.

I would think that Easter Sunday would be a bigger day, but why do most Christians, including fully practicing ones, put more emphasis on Christmas Day?

_Whimsical_

dfeo wrote: »

Is it:

Christmas day ? - the birth of Jesus Christ

Or

Good Friday - the day He was crucified for our sins

Or

Easter Sunday - the day He rose from the dead to give us everlasting life.

I would think that Easter Sunday would be a bigger day, but why do most Christians, including fully practicing ones, put more emphasis on Christmas Day?

Because it's a bigger commercial circus that allows for longer work holidays etc.
However Easter Sunday is really where it all began as far as Christianity is concerned. There had been prophets and miracle workers before Jesus but rising from the dead sealed the deal for him and made him The Christ.

mansize

Easter.

Its the culmination of the promise of resurrection

Peregrinus

dfeo wrote: »

Is it:

Christmas day ? - the birth of Jesus Christ

Or

Good Friday - the day He was crucified for our sins

Or

Easter Sunday - the day He rose from the dead to give us everlasting life.

I would think that Easter Sunday would be a bigger day, but why do most Christians, including fully practicing ones, put more emphasis on Christmas Day?

The status of Christmas as a popular feast has waxed and waned over time, and also varies from place to place. In our own time and place, it's a very big celebration, but we're not "most Christians", or even "most Christians alive today".

Somewhat ironically, the popular celebration of Christmas has grown in the western world as the western world has become more secular and more materialistic.

My suspicion is that this is for two reasons:

First, it's near to a calendar feast, the solstice, and to turn of the calendar year, so there's a general air of festivity/signficance around at the time which has nothing to do with Christianity. Christian and a-Christian considerations combine to support a celebration at this time.

Secondly, it's the Christian feast best adapted to celebration of the material. It the feast of the Incarnation, after all; God enters into our own material, physical, carnal world and sanctifies it; affirms its goodness; imbues it with divinity. What better excuse can you have for celebrating the material aspects of human existence? And here you have a feast which, even if they reject its theological basis, will nevertheless seem attractive to atheist materialists, for whom the material aspect of human existence is the only aspect. So they'll have relatively little problem joining in, and even making it their own.

Theologically, as everyone else has said, the answer is that the most significant event is the Resurrection; no question. If Christ be not raised, then is our preaching vain, and your faith is also vain, as somebody once said.

Nekarsulm

The Second Coming is the most important day in Christianaty .

hinault

I would say Easter Sunday is the most important day.

Easter Sunday is confirmation of the proof that God overcame sin and death. It is the proof of the Resurrection.
It is the day that shows the our hope is founded on nothing other than the Truth.

If you read Scripture you will get a sense of the abject sense of grief and loss from Ash Wednesday through to Holy Saturday.
God incarnate, Jesus Christ, is violently abused, tortured, mocked and then crucified. God Himself is put through this very ordeal. And for what?

The men who shared His mission, His friends, observing what has taken place are in a state of utter disbelief. They know that Jesus Christ is God incarnate but during that time their very essence is practically broken by what they witnessed happening. They are desolate with grief and a sense of abandonment. They run away during Good Friday. Only one person remains steadfast, Our Lady.

Then, on Easter Sunday morning word comes back that the tomb was empty.
Where was Jesus body? Had it been removed by someone? Mary Magdalene mets Jesus. Saint Peter meets Jesus. Cleopas meets Jesus. Jesus is not dead. Jesus is resurrected and alive!

LordSutch

dfeo wrote: »

Is it:

Christmas day ? - the birth of Jesus Christ

Or

Good Friday - the day He was crucified for our sins

Or

Easter Sunday - the day He rose from the dead to give us everlasting life.

I would think that Easter Sunday would be a bigger day, but why do most Christians, including fully practicing ones, put more emphasis on Christmas Day?

Good question, I'd find it hard to choose.

Nick Park

Pentecost Sunday? The birthday of the Church.

Pherekydes

20 May to 19 June 325: The first council of Nicaea.

Nick Park

Pherekydes wrote: »

20 May to 19 June 325: The first council of Nicaea.

The First Council of Nicaea was primarily about the Christological relationship between God the Son and God the Father. As a theology graduate I do happen to find it very interesting, but I think you'd be very hard pushed indeed to make any kind of case for it being the most important event in Christianity.

Jellybaby1

Its Easter for me. When the Second Coming happens then that will be the most important day in Christianity.

Glenster

dfeo wrote: »

Is it:

Christmas day ? - the birth of Jesus Christ

Or

Good Friday - the day He was crucified for our sins

Or

Easter Sunday - the day He rose from the dead to give us everlasting life.

I would think that Easter Sunday would be a bigger day, but why do most Christians, including fully practicing ones, put more emphasis on Christmas Day?

1st communion day

#$$$

martinedwards

for me, Easter Sunday, followed by Pentecost.

manofYah

I think it is sabbath(fri eve to sat eve) its the one commandment that has the most written about it.It is a sign/seal between God and his people.

Terrlock

The must important day in Christianity is the Day you come to know that Christ Jesus Loves you and is your Lord and savior.

Repent of following your own ways, allow Christ to set you free and follow him and the works that he has planned for you before the earth was even formed.