Are Christians taught the origins of their festivals, or do they really believe "Easter" started AD?

Question

By the way, if anyone's wondering if it's meant to be a pun, no, I'm just the victim of a homonym.

Answer 1

EASTER NOT FOUND IN THE BIBLE
"The English word 'Easter' came from the Anglo-Saxon Eastre or Estera, a Teutonic goddess to whom sacrifice was offered in April, so the name was transferred to the Pashal Feast. The word does not properly occur in Scripture although the AV (King James Translation) has it in ACTS 12:4 where it stands for 'Passover' as it is rightly rendered in RV (Revised Version). There is no trace of Easter celebration in the New Testament..." (INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BIBLE ENCYCLOPEDIA VOL.2, P.889). The word 'Easter' has confused some but the word in the original form is "Pascha" meaning "Passover". It occurs 29 times in the New Testament & everytime it's translated Passover except in Acts 12:4. If you read carefully (ACTS 12:1-4); it says that Herod killed James and was trying to kill Peter in an effort to "vex the church"(Please the Jews). Then in VERSE 3 "were the days of unleavened bread"; see LEV.23. He put him in prison intending to try him "after Easter" (KJV). Now if Herod was trying to "please the Jews" & "vex the church" Why would he have delayed the trial until after 'Easter?'" If this was a "christian holy day", especially one in honoring Christ's resurrection, he would surely not be pleasing the Jews, Wouldn't it be more pleasing to the Jews to vex the church by killing one of it's Apostles on it's own "holy-day," would it not?

ORIGIN OF EASTER: WHERE DID IT COME FROM?
Easter was never observed by the Apostles of Christ or Christ's Religion. "The name 'Easter' comes to us from the mythlogical writings of the Ancient Teucrians (who lived 1200BC along the southern coast of Palestine) where it's known as 'Ostern'" BY GROVER STEVENS. "The name 'Easter' is merely the slightly changed English spelling of the name of the ancient Assyrian and Babylonian idol goddess, Ishtar (pronounced eesh-tar)." WEBSTER'S DICTIONARY says "Easter is from the pre-historic name of a pagan spring festival." THE OXFORD DICTIONARY OF ENGLISH ETYMOLOGY says, "Easter is derived from the name of goddess whose feast was celebrated at the vernal equinox." THE SCHOLARY NEW SCHAFF-HERZOG RELIGIOUS ENCYCLOPEDIA says, "This goddess is also widely known as Astarte...The cult originated in Babylonia and spread to Assyria, Mesopotamia, Syria & Palestine, then through the Phoenicians to all of the Meditteranean peoples...Ishtar was in fact primarily and chiefly identified as Venus, the most beautiful of celestial objects & from the terrestrial side, the primarily motive of the worship of Ishtar was the impulse to deify sensuous and sensuality." ALEXANDER HISLOP SAYS IN THE TWO BABYLONS (P.103), "Easter bears its Chaldean origin on its forehead. Easter is nothing else than Asarte, one of the titles of Beltis, the queen of heaven..."
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http://www.matrifocus.com/IMB04/spotlight.htm
http://www.albatrus.org/english/festivals/easter/is_easter_pagan.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ishtar
http://www.lcg.org/search/search.php?query=easter&type=and&results=10&search=1

EASTER is Pagan
(Pagan means no religious beliefs; in the 1984 New Concise Webster's Dictionary--Pagan defined : "A heathen; one having no religious beliefs")

Note: these sites tell where Easter Eggs came from.
http://www.nobleknights.com/~eagle1/eostre1.htm
http://www.rightdivision.com/html/easter_pagan_influences.html

EXODUS 20:3 = "Thou shalt not have other gods before me." It tells us in verse 5 = "not to bow to them nor serve them".

Here are the texts of gods that should not be worshipped:
EXOD.20:23; 32:3,4,8-10,19-23,30
DEUT.4:19,28-31; 11:26-28; 17:3
JER.10
EZEK.8:13-18
DAN. 3:1-18 (tried to make Daniel's friends to bow to the image, but they didn't)

New Testament Texts:
GAL.4:8-10 (pagan feasts are: New Year's, Valentine's-Cupid, Patrick's Day, Easter-Ishtar, Halloween, Christmas, Sunday-sun{from sunset Sat. to sunset Sunday = GEN.1:5), Monday-moon-{worship after sunset Sunday which would be Sunday evening(Sun.even to Mon.even)= considered to be Monday according to GEN.1:8}. Birthdays come from pagan origin too. = (only 2 birthdays are mentioned in Bible; they are: Pharoah and King Herod)
You can find most of things in sources like encyclopedias, history, etc. that tell you it's pagan or that it comes from pagan origin.
VERSES-- DEUT.4:19,28-31; 11:26-28; 17:3 & GAL.4:8-10.

Answer 2

Easter is the day Jesus chose to rise again from the dead.

The fact that the same day used to be a pagan holiday was probably something he knew full well, going in.

But Easter time was also the date of the Jewish Passover, which Jesus eternally fulfilled at the Last Supper, and by his subsequent death on the cross, followed three days hence, by his glorious resurrection.

The Church still caclulates the date of Easter according to the old Hebrew system, which is based on the phases of the moon, but today, all the old symbols have new, Christian meanings.

The egg symbolizes the tomb that was sealed, yet couldn't hold the risen Christ.

The easter bunny is a sign of abundant life, which is what Jesus delivered to us when he defeated death, on Easter Sunday.

It's now clear that God allowed the earlier pagan spring celebrations because they (quite unknowingly) foreshadowed the saving and life giving work of his son, Jesus.

It was Jesus birth ... not his death and resurrection ... that signaled the beginning of "AD" which means "in the year of our Lord".

Answer 3

Yes, Christian are taught the origins of their festivals. This comes from Christianity spreading to different parts of the world.

For example, Christmas is a winter festival changed to celebrate the birth of Jesus which is in September according to the stars. White Christmas would be impossible in Judah.

It really doesn't matter what the origin. There seasons come and they go, for there is nothing new under the sun. Maybe it is time to stop chasing the wind.

Answer 4

i'm religious interior the Christian experience. I do have self assurance component to what you're saying, and questioned a great sort of what I observed in Christianity besides, yet then i got here upon solutions that greater my faith. and there is not any medical data that disproves the Bible. there is sparkling data that disproves particular approaches of thinking for the Bible, yet that's it. occasion, could be Genesis because it concerning to the advent of the earth, as some people could have you ever suspect. for a great sort of persons, the Genesis tale basically shows a commonplace guy or woman perspective of what occurred after a cataclysmic experience...say....a extensive meteor hitting the earth and wiping out the Dinosaurs. So the medical documents that shows the earth of millionso of years old, and the universe as billions isn't in contradiction to the Bible in any respect. there is likewise evidence of the Moses tale. at that factor, there replaced right into a extensive volcanic eruption in Greece, that could have been seen from Egypt. The ensuing atmosheric situations have been so devasting, that the situations of the plague could have scientifically been defined (all however the parting of the sea of direction). The Bible additionally talks approximately cities and cultures that archeologists claimed on no account existed, just to be got here upon interior the comparable places that have been defined interior the Bible. The God of Christianity is the comparable God of the Jews and the comparable God of Islam, in spite of if he's not broadly publisized as such. i think that the unique Hebrews have been persons that stayed real to the only real God, mutually as different persons on the time lost their way. Christianity extra back something people to him, and Islam did the comparable for a persons' that woud refuse to persist with Jewish traditions because of the fact of centuries and centuries old hatred. do no longer confuse the propaganda with spirituality. in case you decide on for to instruct faraway from Christianity, as is your determination, which you may desire to attain this for the the appropriate option motives. I even have not heard any fact on your comments in the direction of Christianity.

Answer 5

When Easter started back in the biblical days it was not Easter it was called something else. It's origin is pagan. Most ppl know where these holidays originated from.

Answer 6

No all the Christian festivals Have some pagan origin..... Christmas, Easter, Good Friday and even Sunday worship all have pagan origin there is no biblical base for them....

Answer 7

Easter is an ancient pagan fertility festival. What else would the rabbits and eggs be about?

Most Christians don't know. Most still think Jesus was born on Dec. 25

Answer 8

DOes it matter?

halloween was turned into a christian thing long ago, when it used actually be an irish pagan festival called samhain.

Christmas time used to be a pagan festival, as used easter.

We don't have the ACTUAL dates of when jesus was born or when he died, it just made it easier for the early chruch to conver people by keeping the old pagan dates, just replacing their meaning.

Answer 9

This issue has been explained to death on Yahoo answers. Yes most Christians are aware that the early Christian church chose dates of common pagan holidays to celebrate religiously significant events. However this has no impact on how Significance of the events being celebrated. As a matter of fact it only proves the early Christian church had some really good marketing Ideas.

Answer 10

Easter happens to land on the same day that Christ was resurrected and so many Christians simply call the day "Easter" or "Easter Sunday." However, a more correct name (and many churches use this) would be "Resurrection Sunday."

Answer 11

Eastern means for the people of God the historical representation where God gave up to Him son as the perfect sacrifice the immolate lamb of God to clean the sins of the world all thinks or after of this comments is pure false accusation of pagans people.