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1 | Resurrection Sunday or easter? | Acts 12:4 | Sir Pent | 113147 | ||
The other side................................ Hello Justme, Makarios, and Morant61, I hesitate to come disagree with all three of you who I respect and appreciate so much on this forum. However, I suppose someone should make the case for Easter being OK :) There once was a car company called "Datsun". However, it is now called "Nissan". The Nissan company learned many things from the history of the Datsun, but has also added their own flavor to their cars. Similarly, there once was a holiday called "Passover". It was pretty much only celebrated by Jewish people in one small part of the world. However, it had a great purpose of remembering God's salvation of their people from death and slavery in Egypt. Now there is a holiday called "Easter". It is celebrated by people of all races, all over the world. It also has a great purpose to remember the sacrifice that Jesus Christ made in order to bring salvation to all people from death and slavery to sin. The word "Nissan" is also historically the name of a month of the year, but no one thinks of that when they think of "Nissan". They just think of the car. Similary, the word "Easter" may have historical roots in a false pagan god named "Ashtar", but no one thinks of that when they think of "Easter". They just think of the resurrection of Christ (and chocolate). It seems to me that Shakespeare was correct when he said, "A rose by any other name would smell as sweet". Therefore, I don't think that calling the holiday "Easter" is a big deal or a bad thing. |
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2 | Resurrection Sunday or easter? | Acts 12:4 | Morant61 | 113157 | ||
Greetings Sir Pent! By the way, I also would like to extend a big 'welcome back' to you my friend! It is good to have you back on the forum. I fully agree with your point. I have made the same arguement before about Christmas. It doesn't matter to me if a holiday once meant something else, or if a pagan somewhere, once celebrated something similar. :-) My response to Makarios was in regard to the translation of 'passover' as 'easter'. He did an excellent job of explaining why it shouldn't be translated as 'easter'. He also did an excellent job demonstrating the even the KJV made 'errors' in it's translation - at times. :-) p.s. - I never knew that Nissan was the same company as Datsun. I used to have an old Datsun when I was a teenager. :-) Your Brother in Christ, Tim Moran |
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