I want to know why people celebrate it lyk every second sunday of april or however it is. Why doesnt it have a specific date?Why do they celebrate?What proof do they have its happend on that particular day itself?
The same is for Christmas also. Please give me an answer either seperatly for Easter and Christmas or both together.
2007-01-05 23:26:27 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Holidays ➔ Other - Holidays
Easter is celebrated on the first Sunday after the first full moon of spring. This is in commemoration of the rebirth of the goddess of fertility, which was incorporated into Christianity in order to make it palatable to pagans who were being enticed to join the ranks of this fledgling religion in the fourth century.
The proper Holy Days were commanded by God in Leviticus 23 and include Passover and the Feast of Firstfruits. Passover is always on the fourteenth day of the Hebrew month of the abib (ripened barley).
Christmas is celebrated at the time of the renewal of the yearly cycle when the day starts getting longer, another pagan holiday. For the biblical truth of when Jesus was born, see http://www.messianic.com/articles/dates.htm.
(BTW, the only birthdays mentioned in the Bible were associated with ungodly men and had dire consequences -- Gen. 40:20 and Matt. 14:6.)
2007-01-05 23:45:33 · answer #1 · answered by RadarRecon 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
There's a complex formula involving lunar phases and the solar equinox and yadda yadda yadda.
You asked WHY, not how.
The WHY is due to a compromise between different factions of the Catholic Church who came together to decide what the "official" date would be. There was a change in the "accepted" calendar which required the date of the holiday be set in the new system.
Some favored a solar event to "trigger" Holy Week, other groups still clung to a lunar cycle (Which is the reason for the variability--lunar calendars don't match up exactly with solar ones, due to the varying phase of the moon and the fact that a lunar month is always 28 days.)
I am including a website that gets into more technical detail than I have here...
2007-01-06 07:57:58 · answer #2 · answered by chocolahoma 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Easter is chosen as being the first Sunday following the first full moon after the spring equinoxe.
It's a very old pagan celebration day .
2007-01-06 07:28:07 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Easter date it's a moveable celebration defined by the Sunish / Moonish Hebrew calendar. Is related to the Jewish Pesach celebration which occurs close to Easter
2007-01-06 07:34:23 · answer #4 · answered by M.M.D.C. 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Christmas is christmas everywhere...........you cant celebrate it in another date. We are celebrating jesus birth, so we cant do it in another day.
About Esater....that is different, depends on the kind of christian that one can be.
Easter for roman catholics is just when caresm finish , and this year it will finish 31th march, so Easter will start 1st of april.
For orthodox greeks will be 1 week after, and for copts still after that from orthodox.
2007-01-06 07:34:33 · answer #5 · answered by حلاَمبرا hallambra 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
look on these websites: http://wilstar.com/holidays/easter.htm and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas. they should help you out!
2007-01-06 07:35:03 · answer #6 · answered by lady_lancaster1026 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋