where does it speak of easter in the Bible and why do so many of us Christian pay so much credence to it?

Answer 1

Because it is the holiday when the Easter bunny comes and hides easter eggs and gives lots of candy. I especially like the Cadbury Eggs.

Answer 2

The King James Version uses the word Easter in Acts 12:4; but since the Christian adoption of the pagan spring festivals didn't originate until centuries later, it can't have been referring to that, so it was speaking of the Passover (the Greek word Pascha is translated Passover every other time it is used in the New Testament). Christians pay such credence to Easter for the same reason they pay credence to Christmas as the birth of Christ. Many simply do not want to change what they have been doing from their youth. We all love celebrations and that's what Christmas and Easter are. They feel they have been sufficiently "Christianized" and made sacred in God's eyes. They feel they need to honour the death and resurrection; many don't want to look for a better way to do that that comes from God himself and not men.

Answer 3

Easter, the word, is not in the Bible. Easter is a representation of the resurrection of Jesus. Good Friday is always the Friday before Easter and represents the crucifixion. Christians pay so much credence to Easter, because it is the celebration of Jesus conquering death.

Answer 4

The word Easter, is in the Bible if you read the right Bible. The King James Bible. However, it does not signify what we know as the celebration of Jesus' resurrection. It was used as a time table by King Herod to determine what to do with the disciples. (read Acts chapter 12)
Easter is a Pagan celebration of the goddess "Ishtar". The goddess of fertility, thus the reason for the bunnies, eggs, etc. We should really rename that period of time "Resurrection Sunday"
It was mentioned in the Bible because Herod celebrated "Ishtar"

Answer 5

I think the word easter is mentioned once. a mistranslation i assure you. the truth about easter is that it is a pagan holiday taken from the pagans by the catholic Church (constatine was catholic).its true origins with the easter eggs and the easter bunny all of it had to do with the Goddes of fertility estrus. not sure i spelled the name right. it has now become a tradition that most Christians observe. God told us not to worship him the way others worship their gods. so celebrating easter is a bad idea. if you want to celebrate the Resurrection of Jesus and him saving us from death celebrate passover. that is what I do.

Answer 6

"Easter" is in the KJV bible. Acts 12:4 but it is a bad "translation" of "Passover". "Ishtar" was the Babylonian goddess of fertility. Ex. 23:13 tells believers not to use the names of pagan "deities". Churchianity is a pagan religion, and does not honor the Creator YHVH. The only religion that leads to salvation is the one that came from the One named YHVH is my Savior. YAHOSHUA. (Scriptures)

Answer 7

EASTER OR PASSOVER

Easter a brief history

The name Easter comes to America from Ostera or Eostre, the Anglo-Saxon goddess of spring. The origin goes back to 2000 BC in Babylonia honoring the goddess of spring Ishtar. Ishtar the mother/wife of their god Tammuz brought him back from the underworld. In Phoenecia she became Astarte, in Greece Eostre, and in Germany Ostara. Consider also a Phrygian honoring Attis and Cybele or a heretic Israelite honoring the Canaanite Baal and Ashtoreth. All of these are fertility celebrations of death and resurrection.

Easter in the King James

Acts 12:4 And when he had apprehended him, he put him in prison, and delivered him to four quaternions of soldiers to keep him; intending after Easter to bring him forth to the people.

Easter G3957 pascha (pas'-khah) Of Chaldee origin (compare [H6453]); the Passover (the meal, the day, the festival or the special sacrifices connected with it): - Easter, Passover.

H6453 pesach (peh'-sakh) From H6452; a pretermission, that is, exemption; used only technically of the Jewish Passover (the festival or the victim): - passover (offering).

H6452 pasach (paw-sakh') A primitive root; to hop, that is, (figuratively) skip over (or spare); by implication to hesitate; also (literally) to limp, to dance: - halt, become lame, leap, pass over.

The word Easter occurs in the King James Bible one time and is mistranslated. It should be translated Passover.

The original Passover

Exo.12:23-27 For the LORD will pass through to smite the Egyptians; and when He seeth the blood upon the lintel, and on the two side posts, the LORD will pass over the door, and will not suffer the destroyer to come in unto your houses to smite you. 24 And ye shall observe this thing for an ordinance to thee and to thy sons for ever. 25 And it shall come to pass, when ye be come to the land which the LORD will give you, according as He hath promised, that ye shall keep this service. 26 And it shall come to pass, when your children shall say unto you,
What mean ye by this service?
27 That ye shall say, It is the sacrifice of the LORD'S Passover, who passed over the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt, when He smote the Egyptians, and delivered our houses. And the people bowed the head and worshipped.

It is the sacrifice of the LORD'S Passover.

Christ our Passover

I Cor.5:6-8 Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump? 7 Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our Passover is sacrificed for us: 8 Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

Christ our Passover is sacrificed for us.

As with most Christian holidays, Easter has been secularized and commercialized. We have Easter bunnies, eggs, baskets, bonnets and parades.

Knowing now the origins of Easter and the sacrifice Christ made for us; I am truly ashamed of country, family, and myself. We should not be celebrating Easter. We should be celebrating Christ our Passover with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

What is your answer to a child who asks, “What mean ye by this service?”

What about God, does He like what He sees and hears during this special time of year?

Answer 8

Easter was originally the Jewish feast of Passover, which is an important feast. The biblical story of easter relates to Jesus' last supper (which is obviously important), in Mark.

Answer 9

Its the Resurrection of Jesus, its not called Easter in the bible.

Answer 10

Its like this. Christians celebrate Easter as the rebirth of jesus, but all in all Easter is a Pagen holiday so Im not sure why they celebrate it.