how do christians decide when easter is.?

Answer 1

The canonical rule is that Easter Sunday is the first Sunday after the 14th day of the lunar month (the nominal full moon) that falls on or after 21 March (nominally the day of the vernal equinox). For determining the feast, Christian churches settled on a method to define a reckoned "ecclesiastic" full moon, rather than observations of the true Moon as the Jews did.

Answer 2

"The ecclesiastical rules are:

Easter falls on the first Sunday following the first ecclesiastical full moon that occurs on or after March 21 (the day of the ecclesiastical vernal equinox).
This particular ecclesiastical full moon is the 14th day of a tabular lunation (new moon). "

The dates for Easter and the associated holidays such as Palm Sunday, Fat Tuesday (Mardi Gras in French), Ash Wednesday, Maundy Thursday and Good Friday all appear on the calendar each year so we Christians do not have to calculate them ourselves.

Answer 3

They don't. True Christians have no part in Easter, Christmas, or any other pagan holiday. If people only knew that the very name Easter is named after the Anglo-Saxon goddess of spring and fertility. That should tell them something. Their ministers don't tell their because that day (and Christmas) brings a lot of money into the church.

Answer 4

Easter is actually a pagan feast day that the early Christian church incorporated to fit into their own religious calendar, but the date it falls on is decidedly pagan. Easter falls on the first Sunday after the first full moon of the Vernal Equinox. It will never be on the same calendar date twice consecutively. The word itself is a derivation of the goddess of fertility, Astarte, of ancient times.

Answer 5

14 days after the spring equinox.
Exo 12:18 In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at even, ye shall eat unleavened bread, until the one and twentieth day of the month at even.

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 6

Jesus was crucified and died on a full moon that's why Christians celebrated Easter on a full moon.

Answer 7

That is a good question. It coincides with the Jewish passover, which is a different calendar.

Answer 8

christians don't decide so much as the moon does

Answer 9

by checking da calender

Answer 10

I'm not sure why you worded your question the way you did so I won't answer.