If you do not celebrate Christmas why do you celebrate Esther?Pliz xplain?

Question

I meant easter sorry.

Answer 1

True Christians do not celebrate Christmas as the birth of Jesus Christ but His conception, We also do not celebrate easter but celebrate Passover as Jesus Christ became our Passover. Its all contained in the volume of the Book.
In His Service.

Answer 2

Easter, Christmas, Even Valentines Day all came from Paganism. These holidays started from worship of false Gods. Halloween is just pure Satanic!!!!

Anyway I celebrated them for 31 years and loved Christmas the most. However one day I just was curious where all these traditions started and when I found out I felt aweful that I had been deceived.
These were holidays that are dedicated to Idol and Fasle God worship. From that day I vowed never to celebrate them again: ANy Christian can look these up and then ask themselves what God would want them to do and for me it was a calling to follow Gods word 100%. For example the scripture
Jere 10:1 (NKJV) Hear the word which Yahweh speaks to you, O house of Israel. 2 Thus says Yahweh: "Do not learn the way of the Gentiles; Do not be dismayed at the signs of heaven, For the Gentiles are dismayed at them. 3 For the customs of the peoples are futile; For one cuts a tree from the forest, The work of the hands of the workman, with the ax. 4 They decorate it with silver and gold; They fasten it with nails and hammers So that it will not topple.

If you love God you obey his word. Even if it means giving up the tree and lights. An evergreen tree has nothing to do with God or Jesus's birth.

This answer would be way to long if I wrote all the details about the orgins of Christmas and Easter
but please check out the following websites.
GOD BLESS

http://www.eliyah.com/paganexp.html
http://www.letgodbetrue.com/bible/holidays/easter-problems.htm
http://www.christiananswers.net/q-eden/edn-t020.html

Here is a great one about Santa
http://www.av1611.org/othpubls/santa.html

Answer 3

Are ya talking about Easter or Queen Esther?

I know that the Jews celebrate Purim to commemorate when the Jews were spared calamity in the Persian Empire.

I think the event is important not only to Jews but also to Christians like myself cause back then Haaman the Amalekite tried to have the Jews killed off with the Kings seal but The King would find out his Queen was herself a Jew and got upset at the plot to destroy her people.

Haaman's attempt to kill the Jews and his attempt to hang Mordecai (Esther's Cousin) was used against Haaman.

Haaman got hung on the Gallows prepared for Mordecai who had once saved the King's life and got promoted to Haaman's Job.

Because killing the Jews had the King's seal and no one not even the King could remove a decree with the King's seal he gave Queen Esther and Mordecai an oppurtunity to find a way around this.

Queen Esther and Mordecai's solution was a Royal decree with the King's deal that allowed for the Jews to fight for their lives on the day they were to be killed.

This spared the Jews and Purim celebrates that event.

Hitler was himself a modern Haaman and the methods he used against Jews he eventually used against himself (killing with Poison).

Answer 4

I celebrate the social aspects of Christmas but not the religious aspects. I participate in Christmas dinner and get my relatives Christmas gifts while sending my friends Christmas cards. I give my young nieces and nephews Easter eggs. Both events have social aspects asides from the religious ones.

Answer 5

I don't celebrate Esther, I celebrate resurrection Sunday as well as Christmas.

Answer 6

For the Easter Basket & Easter Bunny!!

Answer 7

I celebrate both, but not in the Christian sense. I'm Pagan.

Answer 8

My family don't celebrate neither; they're PAGAN HOLIDAYS!
The Pagan Holidays are: New Year's, Valentine's, St. Patrick's, Easter, Halloween and Christmas!
We only celebrate God's Holy Days in Lev.23!
http://community.webshots.com/photo/370320470/1433208069049373547DrdFPq

EASTER NOT FOUND IN THE BIBLE
"The English word 'Easter' came from the Anglo-Saxon Eastre or Estera, a Teutonic goddess to whom sacrifice was offered in April, so the name was transferred to the Pashal Feast. The word does not properly occur in Scripture although the AV (King James Translation) has it in ACTS 12:4 where it stands for 'Passover' as it is rightly rendered in RV (Revised Version). There is no trace of Easter celebration in the New Testament..." (INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BIBLE ENCYCLOPEDIA VOL.2, P.889). The word 'Easter' has confused some but the word in the original form is "Pascha" meaning "Passover". It occurs 29 times in the New Testament & everytime it's translated Passover except in Acts 12:4. If you read carefully (ACTS 12:1-4); it says that Herod killed James and was trying to kill Peter in an effort to "vex the church"(Please the Jews). Then in VERSE 3 "were the days of unleavened bread"; see LEV.23. He put him in prison intending to try him "after Easter" (KJV). Now if Herod was trying to "please the Jews" & "vex the church" Why would he have delayed the trial until after 'Easter?'" BY GROVER STEVENS (WWW.BIBLEANSWER.COM/EASTER2.HTML) If this was a "christian holy day", especially one in honoring Christ's resurrection, he would surely not be pleasing the Jews, Wouldn't it be more pleasing to the Jews to vex the church by killing one of it's Apostles on it's own "holy-day," would it not?

ORIGIN OF EASTER: WHERE DID IT COME FROM?
Easter was never observed by the Apostles of Christ or Christ's Religion. "The name 'Easter' comes to us from the mythlogical writings of the Ancient Teucrians (who lived 1200BC along the southern coast of Palestine) where it's known as 'Ostern'" BY GROVER STEVENS. "The name 'Easter' is merely the slightly changed English spelling of the name of the ancient Assyrian and Babylonian idol goddess, Ishtar (pronounced eesh-tar)." WEBSTER'S DICTIONARY says "Easter is from the pre-historic name of a pagan spring festival." THE OXFORD DICTIONARY OF ENGLISH ETYMOLOGY says, "Easter is derived from the name of goddess whose feast was celebrated at the vernal equinox." THE SCHOLARY NEW SCHAFF-HERZOG RELIGIOUS ENCYCLOPEDIA says, "This goddess is also widely known as Astarte...The cult originated in Babylonia and spread to Assyria, Mesopotamia, Syria & Palestine, then through the Phoenicians to all of the Meditteranean peoples...Ishtar was in fact primarily and chiefly identified as Venus, the most beautiful of celestial objects & from the terrestrial side, the primarily motive of the worship of Ishtar was the impulse to deify sensuous and sensuality." ALEXANDER HISLOP SAYS IN THE TWO BABYLONS (P.103), "Easter bears its Chaldean origin on its forehead. Easter is nothing else than Asarte, one of the titles of Beltis, the queen of heaven..."

VERSES-- DEUT.4:19,28-31; 11:26-28; 17:3; JER.10; & GAL.4:8-10.

Scripture doesn't mention Jesus's birthdate or any christians celebrating His Birthday. The only birthday mentioned besides Pharoah is the heathen king Herod. "Christmas" means "mass of Christ"; the celebration coexisted in Rome before there was any in Jerusalem. The early Roman Church however did establish a pagan festival that (Jer.10) coexisted with Jesus's Birth and that was the birthday of the sun god. (Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th ed., article: "Christmas"). The Catholic sources admit that Christmas didn't co-exist with the earliest festivals. Jesus wasn't born Christmas; even scripture makes this evident. "On the night of Jesus's birth, the shepherd's were still keeping watch over their flocks." (Luke 2:8). The rainy season in Ancient Israel began after the Feast of Tabernacles which generally is early October. In November, it would be cool and wet; the flocks from the pasture had already been brought and kept in winter quarters by the shepherds. This tells us the shepherds were no longer in the fields at night. Another peice of evidence is overlooked is in Luke 1:35-36; it tells us John the Baptist was born to Mary's cousin Elizabeth six months before Jesus. And as we look further in verse 5-17, we see Zacharias an elderly priest burning incense on the altar and then an angel appearing to him and telling him that he and his wife would have a son to prepare Christ's Way. We know however when this announcement was made by the angel because of Zacharias was "of the course of Abijah" Please look at 1Chron.24:1-19; it tells us that King David divided these priests into 24 "courses" that served in the temple by rotation. The Course of Abijah would be the 8th of the 24 courses which usually would occur around the end of May. Pentecost came the week after the 8th course served and he had to serve all 24 courses during the three festival seasons. So Zacharias came home approximately after the first week of June; in which John the Baptist was conceived around mid-June and 9 months later would be his birth. John Baptist's birth came around mid-March while Jesus's was around mid-September. Also notice every year people claim 3 wise men seen Jesus in a stable; is this really true? The Bible nowhere states "3 wise men" or "that the wise men visited Jesus in a stable". Read for yourself: (Matt.2:11); these Magi came from the east beyond the Euphrates River which in the 1st century was called the Parthian Empire (the eastern border of the Roman Empire).

I can't finish this: so you would have to see it on:
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Lot of answers to many topics; site
http://community.webshots.com/user/morrisonmcdf1

Sites of the Pagan days--
http://www.bibleanswer.com/easter2.htm
http://www.biblestudy.org/basicart/valentin.html
http://www.lasttrumpetministries.org/tracts/tract6.html
http://yahwehsword.org/y-pagan-holidays-1.htm

Answer 9

I celebrate both... for the CHOCOLATE!

Answer 10

Jewish; I don't celebrate either.