Why is Good Friday called good Friday ? I know its from the Dutch 'Goede Vrijdag' Spanish call it Holy Friday.

Question

The Danes call it Long Friday. The Russians call it Passion Friday, and the Arabs call it Sad Friday. So why Good Friday

Answer 1

Christ died to save the souls of the people past and the people to come. therefore it is a good day- to save the world-the people who turn to God-

Answer 2

Cos it's wicked yo!

Answer 3

good friday because thats the day Jesus dies for you thats a good enough reason for me =]

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Answer 4

Idiomatic expression. English is full of them. For that matter, so are Spanish, Russian,  Danish, Arabic and Farsi.

Answer 5

it's GOOD because it's a national holiday and so weekend starts early.. people get rest from work......etc.

Answer 6

Calling the day of the Crucifixion ‘Good’ Friday is a designation that is peculiar to the English language. In German, for example, it is called Karfreitag. The Kar part is an obsolete word, the ancestor of the English word care in the sense of cares and woes, and it meant mourning. So in German, it is Mourning Friday. And that is what the disciples did on that day—they mourned. They thought all was lost.

I’ve read that the word good used to have a secondary meaning of holy, but I can’t trace that back in my etymological dictionary. There are a number of cases in set phrases where the words God and good got switched around because of their similarity. One case was the phrase God be with you, which today is just good-bye. So perhaps Good Friday was originally God’s Friday. But I think we call it Good Friday because, in pious retrospect, all that tragedy brought about the greatest good there could be.

I can see virtue in either terminology. If we call it Mourning Friday, as in German, we are facing reality head on, taking up the cross if you will, fully conscious that the Christian walk is seldom a walk in the park. But if we call it Good Friday, as in English, we are confessing the Christian hope that no tragedy—not even death—can overwhelm God’s providence, love, and grace. Either way seems fine to me!

HOPE THAT HELP

GOD BLESS YOU

Answer 7

It was good for us, because Jesus sacrificed himself by taking on all of the sins of mankind to the cross and conquer death, but he had to die  to acocomplish this.

Answer 8

The origin of the term Good is not clear. Some say it is from "God's Friday" (Gottes Freitag); others maintain that it is from the German Gute Freitag, and not specially English.

Answer 9

It's a religious thing. Because the following Sunday is Easter. Some countries are athiest and such, and don't believe in Christ, which is where "Sad Friday" comes from.