Christmas and Easter. BOTH paramount for a Christian's faith?

Question

So why do we celebrate Christmas with so much more fanfare than Easter? Christmas celebrates Jesus Christ's birth, and Easter celebrates His death and resurrection. Why are there no Easter carols? Why don't people travel across country, or across the world, on Easter, or even Good Friday, to be with family? Why don't we give Easter presents (aside from little kids getting easter baskets with gifts, eggs, chocolates, etc. in them)?

Does it have to do with how we celebrate and are joyous when a birth happens, and sad and mournful when a death happens? Jesus' death upon the Cross was not a sad death like you normally have happen to your friends and family. It was sad to see how he suffered and died, but the good news is that he's ALIVE. He defeated death, hell, and the devil! If anyone saw "The Passion of the Christ", you remember the scene with the devil getting angry after Jesus' death. The devil knew that Jesus was VICTORIOUS forevermore!!

Answer 1

The resurrection is so important. So is the birth too, of course, with God Himself becoming a man and being born among us, fully God and fully man.

The exact date of "Chrstmas", not really important, what is important is that He was born :)

Answer 2

In My Church We Celebrate Neither As A Religious Holiday But Every Sunday We Celebrate The Resurrection Of Christ. It Wasnt His Birth But His Death That Saved Our Souls.For Him To Go Through That For Us Is Whats So Special.I Like The Sone 10,000 Angels Because He Could HAVE Called 10,000 Angels To Set Him Free, But He Died On The Cross,For You and Me!

Answer 3

Christmas was certainly a necessary prerequisite for Easter, but Easter is certainly where the "rubber meets the road".

The devil wasn't just angry after Jesus' death (angry with himself, for engineering the death of the sinless son of God, and bringing about his own destruction).

The devil was devastated, cast out, and left powerless as a result of it.

The devil was responsible for all that was done to Christ, and he was judged for it, found guilty, stripped of all his power and influence, and now wanders the world much like the biblical Cain ... a vagabond and a fugitive.

Satan gets his power today only from those who are easy marks, who never took the time to really know God.

Answer 4

Christmas has been hijacked by Consumerism, worst than Easter has.
Christmas is when God's Son became a human.
Easter is when he arose after Saving all of humankind. Easter is not his death but his defeat of death & sin.
Do you really expect the "World" to have the same love & respect for Christ's birthday or Resurection that a Christian has? Best way to destory it is to do what it is doing make it a consumer nightmare.
What are you doing to change that in your life?

Answer 5

Of course there are Easter songs. Among my favorites, "Christ the Lord is Risen Today". Christmas has taken on quite a different meaning than the observance of Christ's birth, of course you know that, with Santa and presents and all that. A person who knows the Lord doesn't have to be fazed by any of this. Our touch with the world should be "light", remember? Don't worry about it so much. Rejoice at Easter, rejoice at Christmas, and just enjoy your relationship with the Lord!

Answer 6

I don't know about the faith, but I know that x-mas and Easter, is paramount for the business people (formerly called merchants in the bible) of the world, they leap upon any holi-day they percieve as prophitable. Check the Stats, Easter is the biggest selling bonanza, (a cash cow) for business people that have no scruples. Don't blame it all on religion.

Answer 7

The Bible doesn't teach that we should celebrate either. Both are inventions of men long after the death of Christ.

Answer 8

Neither Christmas nor Easter have any connection with Christianity. So-called "Christmas" celebrates the pagan Saturnalia and the appropriately-named "Easter" celebrates the pagan goddess Eostre.

Jesus was not even born in December. Nearly all so-called Christmas customs dishonor Christ.

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Christendom adopts "Easter" from pagan worship of the Anglo-Saxon goddess Eostre (or Oestre). Most Easter traditions merely repackage pagan fertility festivals and concentrate on eating, decorating, and frivolity. Christ certainly never wanted that.

By contrast, it's tragic that the one holiday Christ actually *DID* ask Christians to commemorate is entirely ignored by almost all of Christendom. It is, of course, the Memorial of Christ's death, sometimes called "the Last Supper" or "the Lord's Evening Meal".

(1 Corinthians 11:23-25, NWT) The Lord Jesus in the night in which he was going to be handed over took a loaf... Keep doing this in remembrance of me.” 25 He did likewise respecting the cup.. Keep doing this... in remembrance of me.”

(1 Cor 11:24, 25, NEB) "Do this as a memorial of me.”


Christ Jesus himself personally celebrated and explained the significance of that Last Supper to his followers (see Matthew 26:26-29). Christians who commemorate the Last Supper have done so on the same Jewish calendar date as Jesus did, Nisan 14, which generally falls between late March and mid-April. Interestingly, Christians in the centuries immediately after Christ's impalement were sometimes called "Quartodecimans" which literally mean "Fourteen-ers", because the early Christians were well-known for this true holy day.

How would Jesus feel to learn that the holiday he commanded was widely ignored, while his so-called followers chose to celebrate a pagan false god and their own traditions of men? We don't need to wonder.

(Matthew 15:6-9) You have made the word of God invalid because of your tradition. 7 You hypocrites, Isaiah aptly prophesied about you when he said, 8 ‘This people honors me with their lips, yet their heart is far removed from me. 9 It is in vain that they keep worshiping me, because they teach commands of men as doctrines.’”

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