KING JAMES VERSION BIBLE VS. MODERN ENGLISH BIBLES

[joefizz]

Eostre, the ‘easter fertility goddess’ has her own celebration every March 21st, the spring equinox. That’s why Easter is different every year, as it’s celebrated after the first full moon after 3/21 on that following Sunday.


EOSTRE

Germanic Fertility Goddess


Also known as Ēostre, Ostara, Eastre
Spring Goddess of Fertility and bouncy bunny girl

She has her own festival on 21 March, the Spring Equinox, in which bouncing springy behavior is encouraged.

A Germanic goddess, EOSTRE was very popular with the Anglo-Saxon pagan brigade who worshipped her under the name — and kicked off the whole Easter business without a JESUS in sight. If you ever wondered what eggs and bunnies have to do with crucifixion and resurrection, the answer is: absolutely nothing.

EOSTRE’s sacred animal is a cute wittle wabbit — an obvious symbol of fertility — and the egg is her symbol of fertile purity. So Easter Egg hunts are actually packed with symbolic meanings of rebirth and renewal. And Elmer Fudd is obviously just a high priest of the Great Easter Bunny.

In case you think we’re being flippant, recent research suggests that EOSTREherself may have been invented during a mischievous moment by the Venerable St BEDE. This well-known monk mentioned her in connection with the pagan festival Eosturmonath in a book written in 750 A.D. — but extensive research has failed to find a trace of her prior to that. Could he possibly have been fibbing?

Rabbits and hares are ubiquitous in mythology. Every culture seems to have a rabbit god — and they’re nearly always trickster spirits. This, we feel, explains a lot. We also have a terrific theory explaining why stage magicians love doing tricks with eggs and rabbits. Was EOSTRE pulled out of a hat?


EOSTRE - the Germanic Goddess of Fertility (Germanic mythology)

Every culture?
are you sure?
What about Norse and Greek?

 

[SovereignGrace]

Every culture?
are you sure?
What about Norse and Greek?

Not for sure.

 

[KJV1611]

The word I would use for His death, burial, and resurrection? That’s easy.

Gospel

Probably 99.99% of the rest of Christianity calls it Easter.

 

[joefizz]

Not for sure.

I remember hermes as "super fast" and only the mention of donkey ears and Norse I really don't recall nor have heard of rabbit/bunny Gods or the like for those two cultures at least.

 

[John146]

Even when shown the error of inserting easter for pascha, the KJVO’ers still defend its usage.

#unbelieveable
#butsadlyIbelieveit

Herod was honoring Easter. He didn't care about the Passover. Passover had already occurred. Passover occurs before the days of unleavened bread. The feast of unleavened bread was the week following the Passover.

3 And because he saw it pleased the Jews, he proceeded further to take Peter also. (Then were the days of unleavened bread.)
4 And when he had apprehended him, he put him in prison, and delivered him to four quaternions of soldiers to keep him; intending after Easter to bring him forth to the people.

 

[KJV1611]

Does it matter? If Easter is one-word term for such events today, does not mean that it should be put to the Bible back to times when it had not such meaning.

"And when he had apprehended him, he put him in prison, and delivered him to four quaternions of soldiers to keep him; intending after Easter to bring him forth to the people."
Acts 12:4, KJV

This is historically wrong. Because it was after Jewish Pasha, not after our today´s Easter.

If the KJV had "Paul was writing on his computer", it would be historically wrong. It does not matter that today it would be our term.

Ok so let me ask you trof. If you wanted to denote the only instance of Passover in the bible after it had been fulfilled, what word would you use and still be true to the original text? Remember Easter and Passover are exactly the same except that passover is pre fulfillment and Easter is post fulfillment.

 

[KJV1611]

Herod was honoring Easter. He didn't care about the Passover. Passover had already occurred. Passover occurs before the days of unleavened bread. The feast of unleavened bread was the week following the Passover.

3 And because he saw it pleased the Jews, he proceeded further to take Peter also. (Then were the days of unleavened bread.)
4 And when he had apprehended him, he put him in prison, and delivered him to four quaternions of soldiers to keep him; intending after Easter to bring him forth to the people.

I've seen that argument many times but it just doesn't fly for many reasons 1) Passover is used in the bible to reference the entire week of unleavened bread 2) The original writing was Passover and this view means the originals were wrong.

 

[preacher4truth]

Herod was honoring Easter.

Soooo....Herod, who punished and imprisoned those preaching the Gospel was celebrating the Resurrection on Easter?

 

[KJV1611]

As Trof already said, when this happened, easter wasn’t celebrated by the Jews. So easter shouldn’t have been used for pascha.

The KJV doesn't say they were celebrating Easter. The KJV translators were reffering to the passover in post-fulfillment terms.

 

[John146]

Soooo....Herod, who punished and imprisoned those preaching the Gospel was celebrating the Resurrection on Easter?

Easter is not the celebration of the resurrection. Easter is a pagan holiday as you and others have noted.

 

[SovereignGrace]

Probably 99.99% of the rest of Christianity calls it Easter.

But at the time of Acts 12:4, Easter wasn’t recognized. That’s what I am stressing in this argument. Easter comes from pagan idolatry. And you have zero problem with the KJV’s usage of that word.

#gofigure

 

[KJV1611]

Eat five scoops for me.

”No such thing as too much ice cream!” Me

I wish I would have taken a picture of it, I kid you not it was a cone piled up 10 inches high! It didn't think it was going to fit through my window.... And yes I ate ALL of it.

 

[Locutus]

G3957 pascha pas'-khah

of Chaldee origin (compare H6453);

the Passover (the meal, the day, the festival or the special sacrifices connected with it).

 

[preacher4truth]

Easter is not the celebration of the resurrection. Easter is a pagan holiday as you and others have noted.

The reason KJV translators named it Easter is because they thought it was a Christian celebration.

And you're being disingenuous as per usual.

 

[KJV1611]

Every culture?
are you sure?
What about Norse and Greek?

Who knows what Easter originally meant, I tend to believe it meant east. But nevertheless it like Christmas was hijacked by the pagans at some point in history.

 

[MarcR]

I don't think they’re evil. I don’t get all the lol’s in your posts.

But they were using a word that wasn’t used in AD 50’s-60’s. Easter wasn’t recognized during that time by the Jewish believers. Pascha means Passover, which has to do with a lamb or goat, not a bunny and an egg.

I call it either Resurrection Sunday, or Firstfruits because I don't like to conflate the Resurrection with fertility rights; but I do not judge people who follow tradition and call it Easter.

 

[John146]

I've seen that argument many times but it just doesn't fly for many reasons 1) Passover is used in the bible to reference the entire week of unleavened bread 2) The original writing was Passover and this view means the originals were wrong.

Well noted, I'll look into it further. I'd like to hear more of your thoughts on this subject.

 

[KJV1611]

Easter is not the celebration of the resurrection. Easter is a pagan holiday as you and others have noted.

Dude the entire Christian world celebrates Easter as the death burial and resurrection of Christ. You must have read Pagan Christianity or something lol.

 

[SovereignGrace]

The KJV doesn't say they were celebrating Easter. The KJV translators were reffering to the passover in post-fulfillment terms.

[FONT=&quot]And when he had apprehended him, he put him in prison, and delivered him to four quaternions of soldiers to keep him; intending after Easter to bring him forth to the people.[Acts 12:4]

Easter was an Anglo/Saxon word. The old English/Anglo-Saxon language didn’t come about until the mid-5th century. So around 400 years later was the earliest easter became a word.


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[KJV1611]

I call it either Resurrection Sunday, or Firstfruits because I don't like to conflate the Resurrection with fertility rights; but I do not judge people who follow tradition and call it Easter.

Do you do Christmas the same way?