MightySparrow:
Nonsense as usual. The Bible mentioned it only in Acts of Apostles. Do you mean the Apostles ate chocolates?

XXXXTENTACION:
Fvck what the bible says celebrate everyday you live

XXXXTENTACION:
Fvck what the bible says celebrate everyday you live

indigene:


Did Jesus Christ or the apostles celebrated Easter?, The outpouring of the holy spirit on the apostles took place on the day of Pentecost, or festival of harvest, known also by the Jews as Fiftieth day which was scrupulously written as Easter by translators of King James Version.

If you have read well, sources of Easter being a pagan festival are confirmed by outside sources.

Please google the word Origin of Easter bunny.

Good health to you if you abandon falsehood

indigene:


With due respect, The Bible happened to be the greatest gift to man by God. No one who have despised the Bible have never fared better.
For the Bible book of Psalms 14 verse 1, A fool has said in his or her heart there is no God.

indigene:


With due respect, The Bible happened to be the greatest gift to man by God. No one who have despised the Bible have never fared better.
For the Bible book of Psalms 14 verse 1, A fool has said in his or her heart there is no God.

jmoore:


So you are saying that Jesus is a pagan.



What is Easter? Easter is a Christian holiday that celebrates the belief in the resurrection of Jesus Christ.

So how does celebrating the resurrection of Jesus has anything to do with pagan?

Are you implying that pagans celebrated the resurrection of Jesus Christ?

All these nonsense attacks on easter and linking it to paganism is one of the dumbest things I have ever heard.

It doesn't even make sense.

indigene:
Get schooled properly, to have some coherent reasoning.

Name: The Encyclopædia Britannica says: “The English name Easter is of uncertain origin; the Anglo-Saxon priest Venerable Bede in the 8th century derived it from the Anglo-Saxon spring goddess Eostre.” Others link it to Astarte, the Phoenician fertility goddess who had the Babylonian counterpart Ishtar.

Hares, rabbits: These are symbols of fertility “handed down from the ancient ceremonial and symbolism of European and Middle Eastern pagan spring festivals.”​—Encyclopædia Britannica.

Eggs: According to Funk & Wagnalls Standard Dictionary of Folklore, Mythology and Legend, the hunt for Easter eggs, supposedly brought by the Easter rabbit, “is not mere child’s play, but the vestige of a fertility rite.” Some cultures believed that the decorated Easter egg “could magically bring happiness, prosperity, health, and protection.”—Traditional Festivals.

New Easter outfit: “It was considered discourteous and therefore bad luck to greet the Scandinavian goddess of Spring, or Eastre, in anything but fresh garb.”—The Giant Book of Superstitions.

Sunrise services: These have been linked to rites of ancient sun worshippers “performed at the vernal equinox welcoming the sun and its great power to bring new life to all growing things.”—Celebrations—The Complete Book of American Holidays.

indigene:

Did Jesus Christ or the apostles celebrated Easter?, The outpouring of the holy spirit on the apostles took place on the day of Pentecost, or festival of harvest, known also by the Jews as Fiftieth day which was scrupulously written as Easter by translators of King James Version.

If you have read well, sources of Easter being a pagan festival are confirmed by outside sources.
Please google the word Origin of Easter bunny.
Good health to you if you abandon falsehood

XXXXTENTACION:
Fvck what the bible says and if you disagree with me Bleep you too.

FirstSon01:


that's a stupid lie
majority of the world's richest men are atheists and don't believe in your god so how are you faring better than them??

Kobojunkie:
Where Jesus Christ has given you no commandments for or against a thing, He leaves the choice to you as an individual. Where there are no shackles given you, do not create one for yourself or for others.

A Christian can celebrate Easter or even Halloween..it is an individual choice left to each one by Jesus Christ Himself.

indigene:
Jesus said the hour is coming and it now, when true worshippers shall worship God in spirit and truth,

indigene:
And in another part of the scripture, it says, Keep making sure what is acceptable to the lord., And in another, the scripture says, You cannot eat from the table of demons and that of God

Matthew 15 vs 10-30 (ESV)
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10. Jesus called the people to him. He said, “Listen and understand what I am saying.
11. It is not what people put in their mouth that makes them wrong.[c] It is what comes out of their mouth that makes them wrong.”
12. Then the followers came to Jesus and asked, “Do you know that the Pharisees are upset about what you said?”
13. Jesus answered, “Every plant that my Father in heaven has not planted will be pulled up by the roots.
14. Stay away from the Pharisees. They lead the people, but they are like blind men leading other blind men. And if a blind man leads another blind man, both of them will fall into a ditch.”
15. Peter said, “Explain to us what you said earlier to the people.”
16. Jesus said, “Do you still have trouble understanding?
17. Surely you know that all the food that enters the mouth goes into the stomach. Then it goes out of the body.
18. But the bad things people say with their mouth come from the way they think. And that’s what can make people wrong.
19. All these bad things begin in the mind: evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual sins, stealing, lying, and insulting people.
20. These are the things that make people wrong. Eating without washing their hands will never make people unacceptable to God.”

chiommy123:
The apostles of Christ never celebrated Easter neither did Christ. The only celebration approved of Christ in the scriptures is that of the Passover

Kobojunkie:
Where Jesus Christ has given you no commandments for or against a thing, He leaves the choice to you as an individual. Where there are no shackles given you, do not create one for yourself or for others.

A person can celebrate Easter or even Halloween..it is an individual choice left to each one by Jesus Christ Himself.

Kobojunkiee:
You are right that they did not celebrate it, however, Jesus Christ never gave them commandments against celebrating as individuals.

Jesus Christ gave us commandments to accept and obey IN HIS NAME. All other things He leaves us to freely decide on out own since they are this world and not of His Kingdom.

So, when you observe "Passover", you are advised to do it in His Name because after all He commanded it of you.
But when you celebrate your Easter, halloween, st Patrick's day, etc, all of them not of the Kingdom of God but instead of this world, you are not to do so in His Name, but simply because you choose to as an individual.

chiommy123:
how about when he said we should not add nor subtract?

AntiChristian:
Christmas, Easter, Xmas tree, Blood Sacrifice, December 25 are all of pagan roots.

But they must to celebrate something sha.

May we never be unfortunate.

indigene:

Most persons are unfortunate because of putting themselves on and in harm way.
Lack of knowledge happens to be the greatest evil that have befell millions of mankind
The leader of church of satan in America was once quoted saying that witches are happy, when so called christians celebrate Christmas, Easter, Halloween etc

AntiChristian:


Even Pastor Kumuyi says Christmas is idolatrous. Argue with yourself.

chiommy123:
The apostles of Christ never celebrated Easter neither did Christ. The only celebration approved of Christ in the scriptures is that of the Passover

RandomGuy48: The link goes to the Jehovah's Witness website. So let's take a look at some of the claims in that link...
Those who link it to Astarte are doing so on nothing more than their imaginations. It being named after the goddess Eostre may be possible, given Bede's reference, but Bede appears to actually be saying that Easter was named after the Anglo-Saxon name for April (Eosturmonab), which was named after Eostre. However, there's a problem in that outside of Bede, there is no mention of this goddess anywhere; this has led some to wonder if Bede's information may have been mistaken.
But even if Bede was correct, the word for Easter in most languages it not Easter or anything like it. Before the word "Easter" ever existed, it was referred to as pascha in Greek and Latin, and most languages take their name for the holiday from that. For example, in Spanish the word is Pascua. To try to find some pagan connection for a holiday because one language may have named it after a pagan deity centuries after the holiday was already celebrated is obviously absurd.Even this quote they provide doesn't actually say there is a link between pagan usage of rabbits and the Easter bunny. But even if they were symbols of fertility, it means nothing for their usage in Easter, because the Easter rabbit is a relatively recent invention. It was first invented in the 16th century by German Protestants (the first written reference have to is . The idea that an innovation that late somehow proves an ancient pagan connection when prior to that there was no rabbit association with Easter is obviously incorrect, even if the false idea it is linked to paganism is unfortunately frequently repeated.
Eggs appear to have been first associated with Easter around the 11th century. While earlier than the Easter rabbit, this is nevertheless too late to be a vestige of a fertility rite. Their popularity seems to have come about because during Lent (the fast prior to Easter) people weren't supposed to eat eggs, but hens kept laying them so people took to doing stuff with the eggs.
There is no Scandinavian goddess named Eastre. Maybe this is referring to the Eostre mentioned above, but Eostre (if she was even real at all) wasn't Scandinavian and there is no proof that the above claim was true for her.
So I actually looked at this work. This is what it says on page 105:
"Sunrise services are not unrelated to the Easter fires held on the tops of mountains in continuation of the New Year fires, a worldwide observance in antiquity. Rites were performed at the vernal equinox welcoming the sun and its great power to bring new life to all growing things."
No source is cited for this claim in the work. But accepting it as true regardless, it falls short of the claim made, as no mention is made of "sun worshippers."
So the article appears to be, as they say, fake news.

RandomGuy48: Unfortunately, the article linked has a number of inaccuracies. It's not the worst in this area as it at least qualifies some of its errors as being possibilities, but nevertheless it's misleading. Let's look at some of its claims.
First, it tries to suggest a link between pagan spring equinox celebrations and Easter. This makes little sense. Not only is Easter not ever on the spring equinox, Easter a Christian continuance of the Jewish Passover (the words for Easter and Passover are even the same in some languages!). Trying to find some connection between its timing and pagan celebrations simply makes little sense when the obvious answer is that its timing comes from Passover.
I am glad the article correctly notes that in most countries, the name for Easter comes from Passover (e.g. Pascha, Pasqua, Paaske, Paques). Now, it mentions that the English word Easter, at least according to an 8th century writer named Bede, comes from a pagan goddess named Eostre. This is certainly a possibility, though I should note that the name, more properly, appears to come from the month of Eosturmonab (April in their calendar), which was named after Eostre, giving even less of a connection. And that's even assuming it's correct. Outside of Bede's mention here, there's no direct proof that this Eostre ever existed to begin with. And even if it is true, this is a name that emerged well after the celebration was already being done in other countries under the name of pascha.
More problematic is its statement that "In Germany the festival is called Ostern, and the goddess is called Ostara." As far as I can tell, there is no mention of Ostara in the historical record at all, and Ostara being an alternate name for Eostre was a speculation by Jacob Grimm in the 19th century.
Despite its implication of Easter eggs being traced back to paganism, Easter eggs emerged later on in the middle ages, too late for there to be a plausible pagan connection.
On the rabbits, the article talks somewhat out of both sides of its mouth. It claims "Rabbits and hares are also associated with fertility and were symbols linked to the goddess Eostre" (which is naught more than a speculation--as noted, we have only one source for the existence of Eostre, which says nothing about her being associated with rabbits). But then it admits that the first mention of the Easter rabbit is in a book from 1722! Even if Eostre did have a connection to rabbits, it would be simple coincidence that they became associated with Easter because the Easter rabbit first appeared so late in history.
So the article really doesn't back up its promise of linking Easter to earlier pagan ceremonies.

RandomGuy48: Basically none of my points are actually addressed in the rant about Constantine (who I didn't even mention in my post). The only part of it that relates in any way is it asking the question of "So how can the institution of this so-called “Easter” celebration have any significance before God if the Constantine in question was not acting according to the principles found in the Scriptures?"

The problem is, Easter predates Constantine by quite a bit, so this question is moot.

As for complaints about my usage of "even if," my point by using that phrase is that even if one accepts the initial assertions, they don't logically lead into the conclusions. So, for example, when I say "But even if they [rabbits] were symbols of fertility, it means nothing for their usage in Easter, because the Easter rabbit is a relatively recent invention." And this is very true. The first mention I can find of the Easter Bunny is a 17th century book named "Disputatione ordinaria disquirens de ovis paschalibus" (in my original post, I incorrectly wrote 16th century--though 17th century just makes my point stronger). If the Easter Bunny is of some kind of ancient pagan origin, then why is it that it's completely unknown in Easter celebrations prior to the 17th century? I mean, heck, even in today's world there are many countries where the Easter Bunny is basically a nonentity in Easter celebrations.
For the record, I actually dislike usage of the Easter bunny, as I believe it detracts from the actual purpose of the Easter celebration (the Resurrection). However, it provides no proof of any kind of pagan origin of Easter.

DappaD:


The problem is, the early Christian apostles and the congregation(before it became ridden by false teachings) never celebrated this “Easter” therefore it has duly been tagged “pagan” since neither Jesus nor the REAL apostles instituted this celebration. The only event Jesus commanded his disciples and that which his disciples dutifully observed on the appointed day was the “Last Supper”/“Lord’s Evening Meal”. Luke 22:18-20, 1Corinthians 11:26
Again, no mention of any such “Easter” amongst the recognized celebrations of the early Christian congregation.



I saw what you did in your previous comments. Talmabout “Easter being a spin-off from the Passover”—that’s such a weak stance my man.

FYI, the Greek word πάσχα(pascha) DOES NOT translate to “Easter” as the KJV would have it. I mean you can even look up and play around the individual Greek letters of πάσχα and see if they transliterate to “Easter”.
That’s why you think it’s some continuance but we all know the KJV is filled with a lot of errors.

That said, πάσχα(pascha) in the original Greek translates ONLY to the “Passover”(John 13:1) which the early Christian congregation did not even observe after the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ because the “Lord’s Evening Meal” had replaced it. Romans 10:4