Christ's life was so well documented, the dates of his crucufixion and resurrection would be known. Why then is the date of easter based on the phases of the moon?
2006-12-22 10:32:13 · 16 answers · asked by Nemesis 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Oobily, I didn't say that his life is well documented, Christians often say it.
2006-12-22 10:38:56 · update #1
WHY NOT ASK DON.......True Christians do not celebrate his resurrection, they commemorate his death. Easter is a Pagan custom.
Candy coat it all you want, it still means the same to God. Change the name, but the meaning still the same. Exodus 32:4-10
2006-12-22 10:40:05 · answer #1 · answered by GraycieLee 6 · 0⤊ 4⤋
The Jews use a lunar calendar as well. (30 days a month)
Easter (I prefer Resurrection Day) is closely associated with Passover. Jesus rose on the first day of the week following Passover.
Because of a misunderstanding between the Julian calendar and the Hebrew calendar, Resurrection Day was considered the first Sunday following the first full moon on or after the spring equinox. Unfortunately, Passover doesn't always jibe with that. This is why there are years that the celebration of Christ's resurrection occurs before Passover.
2006-12-22 18:45:20 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Only ONE person knew that Easter (I also prefer Resurrection Day) follows the Jewish Passover? The Hebrew's, like most ancient cultures, based their calendar on the phases of the moon...
Chapel is quite right.
Over the centuries, it is true, alot of pagan customs got incorporated into the holiday we call "Easter" after the pagan goddess "Oestre" and her spring fertility rites. Personally, I don't have a serious problem with that. I like fuzzy little bunnies and easter baskets (you can keep the boiled eggs, though).
2006-12-22 18:59:41 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Look up The Origins of Easter. The name Easter comes from a pagan figure called Eastre (or Eostre) who was celebrated as the goddess of spring by the Saxons of Northern Europe. A festival called Eastre was held during the Spring equinox by these people to honor her.
2006-12-22 18:37:11 · answer #4 · answered by TCFKAYM 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Easter was originally a pagan holiday associated with spring. It became a Christian celebration of Christ's resurrection later. I personally think it's appropriate to celebrate Christ at any time of year.
2006-12-22 18:38:21 · answer #5 · answered by drshorty 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Easter is a pagan egg and rabbit holiday. Christians changed it into a holiday for them Ressurrection Sunday, but as usual the pagan portion came with it. There was a goddess called Eastre, the Teutonic goddess of Spring. This goes all the way back to the Tower of Babel, King Nimrod, Queen Semiramis (Easter) and Tammus (the reincarnated Nimrod son) Nimrod was Noah's great-grandson who was demonic evil, but his wife was the old evil queen of heaven who spawned seventy gods and goddesses. A terrible false religion developed with its sun and moon worship, priests, astrology, demonic worship, worship of stars associated with their gods, idolatry, mysterious rites, human sacrifice, orgies and more. Practices so horrible that it is not fitting to speak of them. Semiramis has so many different names, but Venus and Diana and Ashtaroth to name a few. Pure pagan occult worship and clearly an enemy of God. We get so caught up in pagan Christmas and pagan Easter we forget the birth of Jesus and His Resurrection. Of course this is what Satan wants and he laughs at us. The Book of Jeremiah in the Bible tells us about this old evil "queen of heaven." She is in every false religion today. Sacred and profane history all report that idolatry originated in the area of Babylon where the Tower of Babel was built and this many faceted idolatrous system swept the world.
2006-12-22 19:05:41 · answer #6 · answered by Jeancommunicates 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Don't know. Kind of like, why do Christians celebrate Christmas on December 25? Long before Jesus that date was celebrated as the day of birth of Mithra...
2006-12-22 18:40:51 · answer #7 · answered by Emma 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
And Christmas as well. The life of Jesus was very poorly documented. Not only that, it was poorly documented by people who had an agenda, and long after his death. The Bible and early religious scriptures are all we have to go on to know about Jesus... and it's unfortunate that they are so unreliable.
2006-12-22 18:38:24 · answer #8 · answered by ChooseRealityPLEASE 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Perhaps because Easter was actually a pagan fertility holiday. Thats where the eggs and bunnies come from...and it is based on the equinox. Easter didnt originally have anything to do with Jesus...neither did christmas.
2006-12-22 18:35:59 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 6⤊ 3⤋
Well the calender has been changed several times.
I do notice though he was crucified it the time of passover so it is best to keep it near to that time.
please excuse this very feeble excuse
2006-12-22 19:36:55 · answer #10 · answered by Ignatious 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋