Today is NOT easter!!!
Today, contrary to popular opinion, is NOT easter. It is Resurrection Sunday. It is the day that we celebrate Jesus’s death on the cross for our sins. I was reading articles on the internet about Easter, and found something rather… interesting. You want to know where the rabbit originated from? Not because it was cute, not because it is fluffy, and not because the pagans needed a holiday to celebrate on the same day as easter so that they would not be left out. The rabbit is the sign of sexual fertility. Easter was created to honor the “Mother Goddess”, whose son (Ba’al, or Molech, a pagan “god.”) was supposedly killed by a wild boar, and then reincarnated in the springtime. The egg also symbolizes the “Mother Goddess,” who was supposedly born in a huge egg that came down the Euphrates River, in Egypt.
So, before you go celebrating Easter with cute bunnies, and colored eggs, remember what they are representing.
Jesus died for your sins today, to save you from eternal torture in Hell, and you owe Him your life.
Just a reminder.
*Correction: It was actually we who chose the day as Easter, not them. Easter came first.*
You’re right, Easter wasn’t created by pagens so they would have something to celebrate and not feel left out: it’s the other way. We celebrate Easter (and Christmas) on the dates of former pagen festivals. For better or worse, you can thank the Catholic Church for that. We celebrate Easter on the first Sunday, after the first full moon, after the spring equinox. Who sets dates by things like the equinox? Pagens. I would politely point out, though, that while this is Resurrection Sunday, we remember the crucifixion of Jesus on Good Friday. He has to die before he can be resurrected. Now for your next trick, explain why children cebebrate Halloween but don’t what All Saints Day is.
Comment by Clark Bunch — March 24, 2008 @ 12:35 am
True. However, in response to your comment about Good Friday being the day in which we remember His death, I would politely object. It is not the death of Jesus Christ that we celebrate, but the resurrection. If Christ had died, and remained dead, there would be nothing to celebrate. in fact, our entire religion would go down the drain. It is Christ’s rising from the grave that un-deniably prpved his deity. If he had not been resurrected, then he would only have been a man.
Comment by jesusfreak107 — March 24, 2008 @ 12:43 am
Amen, Brother (in Christ) Nephew (in DNA) Trey — Preach it!
The term ‘Easter’ only appears once in the King James Version (KJV) but not at all in an earlier version (The Geneva Bible):
Speaking of Herod, the King, and Paul, the prisoner:
Act 12:4 (KJV1611 Edition):
And when hee had apprehended him, hee put him in prison, and deliuered him to foure quaternions of souldiers to keepe him, intending after EASTER* to bring him forth to the people.
* Translators Margin Note:
Easter: Gr. Passover
(meaning that the translated Greek term can also be translated ‘Passover’
Act 12:4 (Geneva Bible, 1599 Edition, bolding by Ed):
And when he had caught him, he put him in prison, and deliuered him to foure quaternions of souldiers to be kept, intending after the PASSOVER to bring him foorth to the people.
Comment by Ed Edwards — March 24, 2008 @ 10:22 am