Easter Celebration, Is It Biblical?

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Truth7t7 said:
I respect your decision to observe Easter, but there is no biblical instruction to do so

Why are bunnies and eggs going on at the same time it's resurrection celebration?

Because this "Time" of celebration is found in the fertility rites of the pagans that pre-dates Jesus Christ
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Fair enough

We aren't saved by observance of feasts. I do celebrate the Lords supper though because we are commanded by Jesus to do so.

I enjoy Passover but I don't feel obligated to celebrate it. I don't do the bunnies and eggs either. Am diabetic, no Easter eggs for me!
 
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posthuman said:
I agree that the intent of the men who changed both the name and the couning of the days of Pashca to Eoster was not to introduce paganism to Christianity. The linguistic connection of the idol-goddess's name to the Teutonic words for dawn & rising isn't accidental, tho it came long before Christianity came to Europe.

The intention of changing the name and the date was to sever the connection between the revealed Messiah and the Jewish people from which He sprang - and all those things aside, it remains an incorrect translation. It's not a translation at all; it's a calculated insertion of a newly arisen human tradition into the Bible.

If it is the perfect will of God that the word Pascha be erased and replaced, why is it that the Holy Spirit wrote Pascha? Why doesn't anyone who reads the word of God in any language other than German or English see anything other than the Lord's Passover? Are we better than them?

I don't think that you are able to look at this objectively Fred. because of your deference to all things KJV you won't allow yourself to do anything but apologize for it. It doesn't even enter your mind that it those men a scant 400 years ago might have made a poor decision.
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You have done studies of this that I think it is important that all Christians do.

Constantine changed Christianity, Constantine is a man we need to get to know. There are copies of his letters that tell us what his goals were, and his main goal was to be a good emperor to Rome, but he also stated over and over that anything the Jews do we must not do for they are an evil people. Scripture tells us how we are to treat Jews, and we need to obey scripture, not Constantine. Genesis 12:3 teaches us that “I will bless those who bless you.” God will bless those who bless you [Israel].

Something else we need to be aware of as Christians is that before Constantine people with questions about God went to those closest to the men who had known Jesus or were trained by those men. After Constantine questions were answered by councils that said they looked to the Holy Spirit to answer questions. Often they decided based on such as being against Jews, not by scripture as the Holy Spirit bases all things on scripture and is never in disagreement with it. They could make personal decisions and tell Christians they were from God when they weren't from God.

If you don't believe the pope has the power to make decisions for God that isn't in scripture, then you don't believe these councils could make personal decisions and say they were from God.
 
Blik said:
You have done studies of this that I think it is important that all Christians do.

Constantine changed Christianity, Constantine is a man we need to get to know. There are copies of his letters that tell us what his goals were, and his main goal was to be a good emperor to Rome, but he also stated over and over that anything the Jews do we must not do for they are an evil people. Scripture tells us how we are to treat Jews, and we need to obey scripture, not Constantine. Genesis 12:3 teaches us that “I will bless those who bless you.” God will bless those who bless you [Israel].

Something else we need to be aware of as Christians is that before Constantine people with questions about God went to those closest to the men who had known Jesus or were trained by those men. After Constantine questions were answered by councils that said they looked to the Holy Spirit to answer questions. Often they decided based on such as being against Jews, not by scripture as the Holy Spirit bases all things on scripture and is never in disagreement with it. They could make personal decisions and tell Christians they were from God when they weren't from God.

If you don't believe the pope has the power to make decisions for God that isn't in scripture, then you don't believe these councils could make personal decisions and say they were from God.
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I agree Roman Emperor Constatine was a major influence on religious practices in churches today, Easter and Sunday observance being a couple mentions

Constatine donated the land, and built St. Peter's Cathedral that is now Vatican City, headquarters to the Roman Catholic Church

Constatine called the first Nicean Council, 1800 bishops in the Empire were invited all expenses paid, only 318 showed up, tells you where Constantine stood with the early Church
 
Truth7t7 said:
I agree Roman Emperor Constatine was a major influence on religious practices in churches today, Easter and Sunday observance being a couple mentions

Constatine donated the land, and built St. Peter's Cathedral that is now Vatican City, headquarters to the Roman Catholic Church

Constatine called the first Nicean Council, 1800 bishops in the Empire were invited all expenses paid, only 318 showed up, tells you where Constantine stood with the early Church
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Some people say what Constantine did was all bad, some people say Constantine was a saint and we need to be grateful to him. The truth is we need to know what he did that influences our church today and judge those things through what scripture tells us and not judge the man, Constantine. That would be the way scripture tells us to do.

That brings up many questions. We need to question what the Holy Spirit does, what is the purpose of it being given to us and how are we to use it? Constantine said the councils were as true as scripture through the Holy Spirit, is that the truth? Is it God's way to change Passover to Easter? What did Paul mean about the importance of days, is it God's will we use Sunday or Saturday as the Sabbath? Does it matter? These are things Constantine influenced greatly.

Over all these questions, we need to remember the grace of the Lord, and that His grace is the most important thing about being a Christian.
 
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