can someone please explain to me...?

Question

the story of easter? i have not been going to church very long and i am not sure i understand easter i go to a christian church thanks in advance for your help and if you have any passages in the bible that would help to i am trying to teach my son the real meaning of easter and not the whole bunny and coloring eggs bit and i can't teach it to him if i don't know it myself

Answer 1

What Easter is all about is the resurection of Christ. The other guy has some truth to the fact of a Pagan origin but thats only where we got the eggs and the bunny from. Here is a good passage about the true meaing of Easter.

Luke 24
The Resurrection
1On the first day of the week, very early in the morning, the women took the spices they had prepared and went to the tomb. 2They found the stone rolled away from the tomb, 3but when they entered, they did not find the body of the Lord Jesus. 4While they were wondering about this, suddenly two men in clothes that gleamed like lightning stood beside them. 5In their fright the women bowed down with their faces to the ground, but the men said to them, "Why do you look for the living among the dead? 6He is not here; he has risen! Remember how he told you, while he was still with you in Galilee: 7'The Son of Man must be delivered into the hands of sinful men, be crucified and on the third day be raised again.' " 8Then they remembered his words.
9When they came back from the tomb, they told all these things to the Eleven and to all the others. 10It was Mary Magdalene, Joanna, Mary the mother of James, and the others with them who told this to the apostles. 11But they did not believe the women, because their words seemed to them like nonsense. 12Peter, however, got up and ran to the tomb. Bending over, he saw the strips of linen lying by themselves, and he went away, wondering to himself what had happened.

Answer 2

The Christian belief can be summarized thus: Jesus, after a kangaroo-court trial, was condemned and executed by crucifiction; the remains were deposited in a cave, which was closed off with a large stone. On the third day thereafter, the stone had been rolled away and the body was gone; the idea was that Jesus had been raised from the dead. The bible mentions various appearances that Jesus was supposed to have made after this time. The Easter festival is to celebrate Jesus' rising from the dead.

Please note that I don't believe a word of this.

Answer 3

Well, if you want the facts of the case, it is this.

Many of those who answered you here, did not tell you this.

1 - Easter came from the word Ishtar/Eostre, who is the pagan fertility goddess of the babylonians. That's why you have the eggs to depict fertility. And ignorant 'christians' today translate that to mean resurrection.

2 - Nowhere in the bible does it teach us to observe easter. And that's fact. Of course, neither does it say to celebrate christ-mass, which incidentally is ALSO pagan.

My word of advice to you. Do not celebrate easter OR christmas. They are an abomination to God. The only reason they are allowed to last is to serve as a tool to spread the word. But by no means are they legitimate.

On judgement day, no man who has ever heard of christmass/easter can claim to have never heard of Jesus. There is NO Excuse. But true christians do not celebrate these two pagan festivities.

A possible reference. http://www.ldolphin.org/ishtar.html

Answer 4

I can't explain your meaning of easter, but i can tell you the "true: meaning of the bunnies and eggs, which came millenia before your Christ. Pagans way way way way way back about a bagillion BC recognized spring as a time for fertility. New plants were beginning to grow after the harshness of winter, animals were bearing their young. Especially rabbits, who are known for reproducing rapidly. And also chickens, for all the eggs they lay. Eggs were an integral part of the festival's foods, and bunnies were honored for celebrating the spring so fruitfully.

Somewhere along the way it got twisted into a big pink bunny giving chocolate eggs to good christian children. Wait, Christian children being given candy by an old Pagan God? Hmm... how interesting. Kind of like the "winter" of Jesus' birth and All Saints Day after an holiday that honors our elders who departed the world. Either they were created FOR the original holidays, or AROUND them to make the integration into Rome much easier on a pagan Emporer who also, BTW decided that Jesus never was human, although he was born, and not created like "Adam and Eve" were.

Have fun teaching your son that he was born with sin, that happiness can NEVER be on his own making, and that everything that ever goes wrong in his life is not any fault of his own, but God's because you just didn't love him enough. His therapist will thank you later in life for funding his retirement.

Answer 5

Actually the true meaning of Easter IS the whole bunny colored eggs bit. Easter was a pagan fertility rite co-opted by the christians to make their religion easier to swallow for the pagans when it was forced on them. Whoever found the most eggs would be the most fertile in the coming year. Shouldn't that just make parents want to scream!

Answer 6

Easter Sunday is the day of Jesus's resurrection.

Answer 7

All i want for Christmas is my 2 the front teeth ( I had an twist of destiny years in the past and the front have porcelin caps that want to get replaced in about 2 months at the same time as i'd have kept sufficient money to interchange them!)

Answer 8

Easter is the act of resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ in heaven.

Answer 9

easter: pagan celebration of the summer solstice.

when the church realized it couldnt kill all the pagans they decided instead ot "basorb them'. what better way to kill your enemy than take all the women as your own and raise the children as catholic/christian. basiclaly breed them out of existence.

interestingly its the only time that the chuirch didnt choose bloodshed over "politics"

so in order to keep pagans around they hqad to adopt ccertain holidays. all of a sudden their pagan celebration became a christian one.