why is Easter called Easter and not Ressurection of Christ?

Question

GOD Bless!

Answer 1

Hi, to tell the truth easter should not be celebrated at all it is not in the Bible and is there fore a tradition of men. The name and holiday easter is distinctly pagan. The early catholic church took the pagan festival and changed a few things and made it their own so as to draw the pagans into worshipping Christ. This is one of the first known paganization of the early catholic church which has produced the catholic church of today. I will post a coulpe of links for you to look at and i hope they help you in your quest to understand this matter.

Hope these help & God Bless,

Chris

Answer 2

No one seems to know for sure but it is said to have been derived from "Ostern" which is the German word for "Easter", or from a Goddess named Ostara or Eostre.... In any case, it was most likely held in honor of a lunar goddess. Since it comes at the beginning of spring, it was/is a time to celebrate fertility and new beginnings.

The egg is symbolic of these things, which is why we have easter eggs. Pagans would color them to look like the eggs laid by birds. There was some significance to the egg hunt, but I forget what it was...

Bunnies and chicks were also from pagan imagery and probably had to do with the new life of spring.

I have no idea where the Easter Bunny came from.

It's a coincidence that Easter and Ressurection take place around the same time--Christians did not "steal" it from pagans.

Answer 3

Because just like most Christian holidays it has pagan roots.
Ostra was a celtic festival that celabrated life and new beginings.


The Spring Equinox is also called: Alban Eilir, Eostar, Eostre, Feast of Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Festival of Trees, Lady Day, NawRuz, No Ruz, Ostara, Ostra, Rites of Spring. To Celtic Druids it is the time when day and night are equal in length and this happen when the Sun is at 0* of Aries and again in the Autumn when the Sun is at 0* of Libra.

There is a distinct relationship between the Spring Equinox and Easter. The new religion of the Catholic Church absorbed the existing traditions and their symbols and developed a new name ‘Easter’ which is obviously a variant of a German / Saxon Goddess name whose festival was with the arrival of spring. In the pre-Catholic times the celebration of the Vernal Equinox was about new life and hope, the planting of seeds and the activation of the fertility cycle. But the Catholic Church replaced this with solemn displays commemorating Christ and Christian or Catholic dogma (written rules).

http://www.druidschool.com/site/1030100/page/765341

Answer 4

Easter is not one of the days that God called, there is nothing holy about Easter, it's a pagan holiday (celebrating fertility) brought into the church to build up membership.

Answer 5

I certainly do not imagine that the easter bunny has something to do with the ressurection of Jesus Christ. i imagine that some those who are not religious, or do in basic terms not care, used the easter bunny as an emblem to have a good time like we do. yet they use sweet eggs and what else they needed to furnish someone. except that, possibly they needed to bribe their toddlers to be good to get those substances. lol.

Answer 6

Easter is named after goddess Ashtarte. She is the goddess of fertility and her symbols include the bunny and the egg which suppose to signify fertility. Her celebrations are close to sexual orgies. Funny nothing seems to have changed. Spring break is the biggest sexual week for the U.S. and it just happens to fall on easter week. I was told but never did see a study myself, that the first three months after spring break is also the biggest abortion months in the U.S.

It's not diffcult to conclude that real Christians do not celebrate easter.

Answer 7

ask your pastor he will tell you- but just in case he doesn't it always was called Easter- it was the name of a pagen fertility goddess- hence the rabbits and eggs- i could go into detail about the traditions of this day but it would require a bigger message board- Jesus is called the Lamb of God because He died on Passover- He was the Passover lamb for our sins- and that is why burnt offerings are no longer required- He was the perfect Lamb- and the original day that was celebrated- even in the New Testament was Passover- people believe it to be a Jewish holiday but it was not given just to the tribe of Judah but to all of Israel ---- ans Easter was not even celebrated in the states by the puritans because they knew what it was- we all need to wake up from our sleep and Look into what we do For God and Why we do it.

Answer 8

I do believe in the Resurrection of Christ but I read somewhere in an occult book once that Easter was named for woman of importance named Esh Tar. I'm trying to find out more about that, because I'm not sure if the book i read it from was accurate.

Answer 9

Because it, like most christian holidays, is a bastardized pagan holiday.
It was originally called "Ostara" and still is by many, and was the celebration of spring and fertility. Hence the eggs and the easter bunny.
Besides have you ever wondered why this "christian" holiday is based on the lunar cycle?

Answer 10

Most Christians call it Resurrection Sunday and not Easter.