Meaning of Easter?

Question

The holiday is about so much more than just bunnies and eggs! The God who created this universe sent His Son to die on a cross in order to save us from our sins and give us eternal life.

Please read in your Bible about the last supper in Mark 14:16-17 & Mark 14:22-25.

Then read about Jesus is Crucified in Matthew 27:27-31 & Luke 23:26-27 & Luke 23:33-34 & John 19:23-24.

Next, read about how Jesus Dies and Is Buried in Luke 23:44-47 & Matthew 27:57-60 & Mark 15:47.

Lastly, read THE BEST PART!! Jesus is Risen! Mark 16:2-7 & Mark 16:19-20

This gives you reason to rejoice as you read about His glorious resurrection and delight in the fact that He is alive!
HE IS RISEN…HE IS RISEN INDEED!

Answer 1

Amen.

Answer 2

The word easter occurs only once in the Bible (Acts 12: 4) and then would be better translated passover.

The word Easter is from Eastre, a Norse goddess whose pagan festival was observed at the spring equinox. The association of this pagan goddess with the celebration of the resurrection of Jesus Christ was only be adaptation and synthesis. There is no real connection. Jesus, being the Lamb of God, was crucified at passover time and is the true Passover (see 1 Cor. 5: 7). He was raised from the grave on the third day thereafter. It thus became a springtime anniversary, and has come to be called Easter in the Christian world.

Answer 3

Yes.. the holiday IS so much more than just bunnies and eggs.. it's a celebration of the return of Spring, rebirth, and the goddess Eostre (whose totem is the bunny and whose symbol is the egg), the fertility goddess.

Jesus never celebrated any such thing. If he existed, he would've been a Jew, and would have celebrated Passover.
His followers would not have changed that.
What changed was when the Council of Nicea decided to marry jewish gnosticism with paganism to unite the Roman empire in the 4th century.. they changed the sabbath (which Jesus would have observed) from Saturday to Sunday and Passover to Easter to make it more palatable to the pagans.
Read some history books :)

Answer 4

That's Passover or a reworked Christian Passover called Holy Week.

Easter will always be a Spring festival named after a Pagan Fertility Goddess whose symbols are bunnies and eggs, even if you people horn in on it like you horn in on everything else.

You people really should just develop your own Holidays instead of stealing them from Jews and Pagans. You could call yours "Pop Up Jesus Day!"

Answer 5

Easter’s ascendancy as a festival thus was not Bible based. In fact, scholars claim that the very word Easter is of Anglo-Saxon origin, referring to the springtime. During that season, the ancients thought the sun was reborn after months of winter death. Other terms for the festival, such as pâques or pasqua, are derived from the ancient Hebrew word pe′sach, or “passover.” Christendom argues that Easter replaces this Jewish festival. But this ignores the fact that Jesus replaced the Passover, not with Easter, but with his memorial supper.

Easter is pagan. True Christians reject it.

Answer 6

So if God sent Jesus to die for the sins of everyone, when is the human race going to get responsible and quit using this belief to escape the guilt of murdering others.......Jesus CAME to offer us a way to SAVE "ourselves." The sacrifice lamb belief is a neanderthal, satanic belief. CHANGES in the world will not happen to accept all Jesus taught until MANKIND quits it's ignorance and faces up to REALITY. The purpose of easter reminds persons Jesus arose from the dead to assure his faithful we have ETERNAL LIFE...........

Answer 7

easter in it's entirety stems from the pagan sabbat of ostara. here is some more info:

Pagan origins of Easter:
Many, perhaps most, Pagan religions in the Mediterranean area had a major seasonal day of religious celebration at or following the Spring Equinox. Cybele, the Phrygian fertility goddess, had a fictional consort who was believed to have been born via a virgin birth. He was Attis, who was believed to have died and been resurrected each year during the period MAR-22 to MAR-25. "About 200 B.C. mystery cults began to appear in Rome just as they had earlier in Greece. Most notable was the Cybele cult centered on Vatican hill ...Associated with the Cybele cult was that of her lover, Attis (the older Tammuz, Osiris, Dionysus, or Orpheus under a new name). He was a god of ever-reviving vegetation. Born of a virgin, he died and was reborn annually. The festival began as a day of blood on Black Friday and culminated after three days in a day of rejoicing over the resurrection." 3

Wherever Christian worship of Jesus and Pagan worship of Attis were active in the same geographical area in ancient times, Christians "used to celebrate the death and resurrection of Jesus on the same date; and pagans and Christians used to quarrel bitterly about which of their gods was the true prototype and which the imitation."

Many religious historians believe that the death and resurrection legends were first associated with Attis, many centuries before the birth of Jesus. They were simply grafted onto stories of Jesus' life in order to make Christian theology more acceptable to Pagans. Others suggest that many of the events in Jesus' life that were recorded in the gospels were lifted from the life of Krishna, the second person of the Hindu Trinity. Ancient Christians had an alternative explanation; they claimed that Satan had created counterfeit deities in advance of the coming of Christ in order to confuse humanity. 4 Modern-day Christians generally regard the Attis legend as being a Pagan myth of little value. They regard Jesus' death and resurrection account as being true, and unrelated to the earlier tradition.

Wiccans and other modern-day Neopagans continue to celebrate the Spring Equinox as one of their 8 yearly Sabbats (holy days of celebration). Near the Mediterranean, this is a time of sprouting of the summer's crop; farther north, it is the time for seeding. Their rituals at the Spring Equinox are related primarily to the fertility of the crops and to the balance of the day and night times. Where Wiccans can safely celebrate the Sabbat out of doors without threat of religious persecution, they often incorporate a bonfire into their rituals, jumping over the dying embers is believed to assure fertility of people and crops.

http://www.religioustolerance.org/easter1.htm

Answer 8

Amen. thank you...

But Easter is a pagan holiday. Leave that one alone...

Answer 9

Hmmm...you may want to research this.
http://www.religioustolerance.org/easter1.htm

Answer 10

This is not a question. This is more of a sermon.