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1 | Yes, but Is Easter of pagan origin? | NT general Archive 1 | kalos | 1658 | ||
My sincere thanks for your answer. Can you support your answer with either Scriptural or historical references? Generally, I sort of agree with you. Nowhere in the Bible are we commanded to remember the birth of Jesus (Christmas). But we are definitely commanded to remember his death and resurrection (Easter). However, this alone doesn't answer the questions, "Is Easter derived from a Pagan celebration? What is the historical origin of Easter?" Surely the Bible makes no mention of bunny rabbits, Easter eggs, Easter egg baskets and hunts, Ft. Lauderdale, chocolate candy, etc. | ||||||
2 | Yes, but Is Easter of pagan origin? | NT general Archive 1 | Alive | 1674 | ||
The tradition of bunny rabbits, easter eggs etc. is if pagan origin. But, we as christians are not supposed to celebrate of pagan "reasons". I'm sorry about the missunderstanding of your question - I'm swedish, and we have the word "påsk" for easter, and the hebrew word should be "pasha" or "pesha" - meaning "passing over". Even though, I don't think it's something wrong with celebrating either christmas or easter with eggs and candies - Read Colossians about celebrations of different days... |
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3 | Yes, but Is Easter of pagan origin? | NT general Archive 1 | catisq | 198281 | ||
If we are to celebrate the death of Jesus, please note;Jesus ate the passover meal with his deciples (at night) on "passover (easter). then they went to the mount of olives (the same night) then Jesus was betrayed (that night). Jesus then had to go before pilate, then before Herod, then back to Pilate, so on and so on. this took much time. thus being the next day (or two) before Jesus was crucified. ask yourself, how then can we celebrate Jesus' death on easter when he did not die that same day? further more, no one can (should) judge another for what they do or dont do... that is Gods job. we are to try to correct our brothers and sisters in their errors. easter eggs, the bunny rabbit etc. "are" pagen and can be traced back to the Roman Cathlic church. (go on line and look up your questions in the encyclapediea. this is also true with Christmas, New Years, St. Valentine, St patric, etc. I found out so much that I no longer celebrate anything. P.S. look up Xmas tree, yule log and the complete breakdown of all holidays. | ||||||
4 | Yes, but Is Easter of pagan origin? | NT general Archive 1 | jlhetrick | 198291 | ||
Catisq- Welcome to the forum! A couple of points to start with. You may not be aware that you responded to a post made nearly seven years ago! Not breaking any forum rules in that of course, but there is a good chance that the person you posted to will never see your response, much less respond back to you. In this case, poster "Alive" was only actively posting for a grand total of 22 days with a total of 5 posts. You can check the date of posts in the thread, last column. You can verify the activity of any member by left clicking on their user name in the thread. There you will find the date of the last post along with other information. Also, if you get the time and don't mind, some information about yourself can be included in your User Profile. You can access and edit that feature under "Resources" in the left column of your screen (it's not required). Finally- don't be too concerned with the struggle you may be having regarding recognizing and/or celebrating "holidays". That's not required either. Let me say though, that having a better understanding of how we as Christians should think on these things should have more to do with how we approach it than the historical relevance of what other cultures and religions might have in common with it. For example- you mention "Easter" as being a celebration of the death of Jesus. I personally do refer to the holiday as Easter but what I and my family celebrate is not the death of Jesus, but His resurrection. Lots of men die, but Jesus rose again. That's worthy of celebration in my opinion. We really start to confuse the issue, and ourselves, if we attempt to align the day we celebrate the event with the exact day of the event. After all, we are not celebrating the day, but the event. For Christians, Easter is simply a day set aside to "represent" the single event of Christ's resurrection from the dead. The truth of the evenet should be celebrated each and every day by Christians. I agree with you that we should not judge others based on whether they do or do not celebrate a holiday, religious or otherwise. God Bless, Jeff |
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5 | Yes, but Is Easter of pagan origin? | NT general Archive 1 | DocTrinsograce | 198292 | ||
Hi, Jeff... My congregation holds a Tenebrae service Friday evening before Resurrection Day, specifically to focus on the death of Christ, contemplating on the cause and purpose of His death, for which He was born. We careful consider our contribution to this bruising and putting to grief, which thing pleased our Sovereign Father to do as a sacrifice for the remission of sin (Isaiah 53:10). After taking communion together, we then all depart in sober silence. Celebration -- in the old sense of the word -- begins, therefore, on Resurrection Day! I also celebrate Pesah every year with the Seder meal... and sometimes Resurrection Day and Passover are on the same day! So I get judged a lot for a variety of reasons, by a variety of people! :-) In Him, Doc |
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6 | Yes, but Is Easter of pagan origin? | NT general Archive 1 | jlhetrick | 198384 | ||
of course Doc, the only judge that matters has already judged you righteous based on the work of Christ. Praise God for that. Jeff |
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