Easter Celebration, Is It Biblical?
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Three paragraphs on opinion, not one scripture showing a directive to remember the Lords resurrection, waiting 
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So going to church early, eating breakfast together, read the prophecies about Jesus from the OT and the psalms, and then the Gospel account of the resurrection, singing hymns about Jesus and his resurrection, and proclaiming Jesus is risen, and taking the Lord's supper is pagan? Well alrighty then.
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Do you HONESTLY believe that this CHRIST-HATING WORLD is celebrating the birth and resurrection of Jesus on Christmas (Christ Mass) and Easter?
If you do, then you're terribly mistaken.
"Christ Mass" has absolutely nothing to do with the birth of Jesus. It is a totally pagan holy day/holiday.
Similarly, "Easter" has absolutely nothing to do with the resurrection of Jesus. It is a totally pagan holy day/holiday that has to do with a fertility goddess, hence eggs and bunnies.
If you do, then you're terribly mistaken.
"Christ Mass" has absolutely nothing to do with the birth of Jesus. It is a totally pagan holy day/holiday.
Similarly, "Easter" has absolutely nothing to do with the resurrection of Jesus. It is a totally pagan holy day/holiday that has to do with a fertility goddess, hence eggs and bunnies.
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You know what amazes me about this.
We take an occasion, to go to church a little longer, focus in on one of the miraculous aspects of the incarnation of Jesus be it his birth from a virgin or his resurrection, and we eat and fellowship together, we sing songs about the actual historical event that is of Jesus, we read more passages from the bible, we have our children do re-inactments of the event so they learn about it through hands on, we have some fun and enjoy fellowship of the brethren and our families. And some ninny nanny comes along and accuses us of pagan worship. This absurdity is beyond fathomability ( I know I just invented a word so what I guess that's pagan too).
I have never been to a church where any fertility rites or discussion of fertility gods, any orgies, or any of this nonsense has gone on. There has only been a celebratory focus on Jesus. Yet here we are accused of paganism. I think it's the work of Satan to discourage people from celebrating the Lord Jesus, be it his birth, or ministry, or fasting in the wilderness, or his resurrection. I see Jesus is God who condescended to be a human with human pain and anguish and suffering in human conditions, living with us teaching people who hated him, offering grace everywhere he went, that He God came to serve sinful man, and die a cursed death so that death can be defeated, and we can have everlasting life. This is a celebration worthy thing. If you can't find reason to celebrate Jesus... I don't know there are no words for such a miserable condition.
We take an occasion, to go to church a little longer, focus in on one of the miraculous aspects of the incarnation of Jesus be it his birth from a virgin or his resurrection, and we eat and fellowship together, we sing songs about the actual historical event that is of Jesus, we read more passages from the bible, we have our children do re-inactments of the event so they learn about it through hands on, we have some fun and enjoy fellowship of the brethren and our families. And some ninny nanny comes along and accuses us of pagan worship. This absurdity is beyond fathomability ( I know I just invented a word so what I guess that's pagan too).
I have never been to a church where any fertility rites or discussion of fertility gods, any orgies, or any of this nonsense has gone on. There has only been a celebratory focus on Jesus. Yet here we are accused of paganism. I think it's the work of Satan to discourage people from celebrating the Lord Jesus, be it his birth, or ministry, or fasting in the wilderness, or his resurrection. I see Jesus is God who condescended to be a human with human pain and anguish and suffering in human conditions, living with us teaching people who hated him, offering grace everywhere he went, that He God came to serve sinful man, and die a cursed death so that death can be defeated, and we can have everlasting life. This is a celebration worthy thing. If you can't find reason to celebrate Jesus... I don't know there are no words for such a miserable condition.
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Where do you get Pascha or Paska (Easter) as meaning a pagan holiday? There is NO way on God's green earth that the Greek word paska can possibly mean anything remotely like "Eoestre" or "Ishtar". The King James Bible translators were not morons. They knew exactly what this word means and it means EASTER, particularly when it applies to the yearly celebration of the Resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ, and that is what they wrote.
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That it is a de-Judaized substitute for Pascha, the days of unleavened bread and the day of Firstfruits?
Because Passover is the day He died and Firstfruits is the day He rose. They weren't just random days. He chose these days.
Do you mean about the paganization? I think that's pretty obvious with all the fertility symbols and chocolate.
You mean the deliberate removal of all things related to Judaism from the day? That's a fact of church history, especially in Germania in the middle ages, which is where the word Pascha in Greek and Latin manuscripts of the Bible started getting replaced with the word Eostare - a tradition that found its way into the KJV rendition of Acts 12:4
The textus receptus, the Vulgate, the modern critical text, the majority text - - every Greek source and every early Latin and all translations everywhere until middle age German translations have Pascha/Passover in Acts 12:4.
then you start getting German versions that have 'Eostare' even in the OT. They are clearly trying to erase any Jewish connection to the days God chose to offer Himself as a Pascal Lamb and to rise as Firstfruits of the dead.
Because Passover is the day He died and Firstfruits is the day He rose. They weren't just random days. He chose these days.
Do you mean about the paganization? I think that's pretty obvious with all the fertility symbols and chocolate.
You mean the deliberate removal of all things related to Judaism from the day? That's a fact of church history, especially in Germania in the middle ages, which is where the word Pascha in Greek and Latin manuscripts of the Bible started getting replaced with the word Eostare - a tradition that found its way into the KJV rendition of Acts 12:4
The textus receptus, the Vulgate, the modern critical text, the majority text - - every Greek source and every early Latin and all translations everywhere until middle age German translations have Pascha/Passover in Acts 12:4.
then you start getting German versions that have 'Eostare' even in the OT. They are clearly trying to erase any Jewish connection to the days God chose to offer Himself as a Pascal Lamb and to rise as Firstfruits of the dead.
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No, mate. They followed the anti-semitic example of Tyndale and Luther and what had become tradition in Germania and surrounding regions, to replace the actual word 'Pascha' with a Teutonic word for the dawn. Jerusalem was full of people keeping the feast of Passover in Acts 12. The word Eostare didn't even exist then.
For those who believed the feast had become much more meaningful, recognizing that Christ is our Pascal Lamb and that He rose as the Firstfruits of the dead. But it was still Passover. It wasn't dawn-goddess-fertility day.
It was a thousand years later when the traditions of men changed the word.
KJV translators were not morons but they are not God. God chose His 7 feast days and God chose to die and to rise on two of them.
1 Corinthians 5:7-8
Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us: Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened [bread] of sincerity and truth.
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