Why is Good Friday "Good?"

Good Friday is “good” because even though Jesus suffered, he did it for us, to take away our sins. It’s the ultimate act of love. What could be more “good” than that!

i think it is called good friday because it is the day when jesus came back to life and he died to save other peoples life and we all should celabrate it

I always thought it should be called “fairly nice friday”. It’s not always good, sometimes it rains.

It is “good” in every sense of the word. Most American’s equate goodliness with happiness, and that is a large fallacy. Good comes from and is synonymous with God. The root words are the same. It is an old English adage. Much like out common greeting, “Goodbye” comes from the English phrase, “God be with ye.”

It is good also in what God through Christ does for humanity. In this context it is synonymous with holiness. It is “good” if only because God enacted it, thus by definition. Sacrificiality is the greatest good. “No greater love have people than this, than to lay down their lives for their friends.”

The good thing about Good Friday is that it is an opportunity to recognize what is wrong with us, accept God’s offer of forgiveness in the form of Christ dying for our sin on the cross, and then to invite God to be with us, heal us, and bless us.

I have read that some think Good Friday is a derivative from an original “God’s Friday.” This would commemerate the day God gives up his Son for his love of the world and all of his creation,

It’s called Good Friday coz even Jesus died on this day which is supposedly bad but the truth is it was a Victory against the enemy! Jesus had finally defeated death.

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It’s good because Jesus accomplished what He came to do, to reconcile us back to God. It’s good because it was all paid for when He said, ‘It is finished!’.

It is good because it is the day where the sinful nature of man is on full display via crucifying an innocent man — good because in Jesus rising from the death delivered, we see that Jesus is Lord above all sin, all men, all cruelty, and for us. Never had a day before or since shown such love triumph over such cruelty. It is good because it reveals the extent of God’s great love for us.

On Good Friday, Jesus repaid our huge debt to God for our sins…a debt so large that there was no hope that we would ever be able to repay it ouselves. Jesus, therefore, substituted himself for us to wipe the slate clean. That is why it is called “Good” Friday. The worst day in Jesus’ life was our best day. Quite a paradox.

“Good” comments. I’ll add that it was a terrible day. It only become good 2 days later, when Jesus overcame death itself.

I tend to subscribe to the name having an origin other than the word “good”. In the Finnish language the Friday is called a “Long Friday”. I think this is more appropriate since it must have been a long day indeed for Jesus. Easter Sunday might be a good day to focus on the salvation he brought us. Friday should perhaps be spent reflecting on the suffering Christ endured.

He dies on Good Friday. He comes back to life on Easter…..It’s ‘good’ because he did such a ‘good’ thing for us by taking our punishment…….but the word ‘good’ has lost a lot of it’s strength. It really means ‘great’ or ‘wonderful’ in today’s vernacular.

Ben, Jesus did not come back to life on Good Friday. He was risen on Easter. He died and three days later he came back to life. I