Why do so many people believe that Christians don't know the History of Easter?

Question

Ok I've celebrated the "Easter" holiday all my life. The history behind the holiday was explained very well to me as a child and as an adult. The subject of the goddess of fertility came up MANY times. It was explained that as pagans converted to Christianity they changed over their holidays to Christian holidays, and they gave things new meanings. For example, the Christmas tree was once a pagan symbol, but now Christians see the tree as a symbol, not only of Christ's birth, but his death. ( he was laid in a manger and and died on a cross) And, on easter we chose to celebrate his resurrection. Maybe our time isn't perfected, but the point is to celebrate it together as a body, and hay... decorating eggs and trees is fun.

God made eggs and God made trees, so there can't be anything wrong with Christians enjoying them.

What do you think?

Well, just a thought, as a Christian, isn't is WORSE not to celebrate the resurrection of Jesus at all? I mean, it is my understanding, though I could be wrong, that is wasn't "the church" as a separate people who made things holidays into Christian holidays, but Pagans who were converted. Therefore, Christians wouldn't of stolen anything.

But on that note I believe (as a Christian0 that God uses these days to glorify himself. I mean today at my church 10 people got saved. During Christmas I see a lot of people come to the understanding of Christ. I know not all of you are Christians, so this comment isn't referring to you. I'm just saying, this could just be another example of God's power to turn things for the good. When you think about it, the resurrection is all about Jesus making dirty things clean. And, when you consider what some of us came out of, isn't there some feeling of deliverance to understand that God gets the glory in all things? This Sunday we studied Haggi. read it

Answer 1

Sweet, the Spirit of Truth resided with Jesus. In fact, he is the spirit of truth. The history of Easter and Christmas is not a celebration of Truth or fact and therefore contradicts the spirit of Christ. you are right, it is fun, it brings people together in the name of the Babylonian religion that created it. The issue is quite simple, does God enjoy unity in and under false Gods? Remember his words...
' for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God'
He wants from you total submission to his ways, to his days, to his observance.
I Cor. 5:8 '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.'
The sincerity and truth are not in Easter (ISHTAR, Nimrod's mother/wife) but rather, Passover. Any observance of the days in accordance with any man-manufactured distraction is not in the 'spirit' of truth, but falls into a category of producing a funner experience when God likes to have the last word on matters such as this. And his last words were Passover and he gave a particular day and manner in which it is to be observed.
The historical distinction is to be understood as seperating God's view of Israel and God's view of Babylon. Which would you rather God see you as?

Answer 2

It is the observance of pagan traditions that people notice about Christians. It's as if they place more importance on those pagan traditions that they do the word of God.

It's a hypocritical stance to deny others their pagan rituals if Christians are observing pagans rituals. If those that are practicing sorcery place God in it's midst, does it then become okay?

One thing that we humans can do well is rationalize our sin away. Making our sin not a sin at all in our minds-- we fool ourselves.

As there are many examples in the Old Testament, one slip from the obedience that God would have us practice leads further generations to even more error. How can a Christian read 1 & 2 Kings, 1 & 2 Chronicles, 1 & n2 Samuel, without seeing that?

It took a strong faithful king in those days to turn the people away from the idol worship and error. In the minds of those backsliding, they thought, " What harm can this little thing do?" As in the case of Saul in 1 Samuel 15, to name only one out of many.

But God can forgive you, as He can forgive me for what I do. I am only trying to convince you that people who point and say, " Hypocrite" have a good and valid point.

Answer 3

There are Christians who choose to follow Christ and there are those who are born in a Christian heritage that just accept things the way they are without exploring why they believe what they claim to believe.

I live in the United States. Many would say our country is a Christian country yet most of us "Christians" have never read the rule book about what it means to be a Christian; and that is the Bible. Most are biblically illiterate. So to answer your question... most are gullible and naive sadly. They depend on others to lead the way when in essence... Jesus Himself commanded all His disciples to go all over the earth spreading the message of the Lord in Matt. 28.

Most who call themselves Christian... do not really know what it means to be a Christian... and those who do... need to be careful not to be a stumbling block to others; myself included.

Answer 4

actual common... the pope stated it strengthen into so... in case you're truly interested in all those products, perform a little analyzing in the Catholic Encyclopedia. it truly is long... i think of 20+ volumes... even though it truly is desirable how lots of Christian dogma and prepare has developed over the years. the two Christmas and Easter have been chosen precisely because of the fact they coincided with pagan celebrations. The branch of the Christian faith that grew to become the Catholic church (out of which maximum different substantial denominations have come...) strengthen into finding to aggressively strengthen their effect. It strengthen into desperate that finding "trouble-free floor" between christian and pagan practices could make the conversion technique much less complicated. So... they took traditionally pagan holy days and related a Christian magnitude to the date. the comparable is authentic for the full emphasis on the virgin Mary via the Catholic church. Mary isn't sanctified or referred to as out in scripture. in certainly actuality, little or no is declared approximately her. So why is she one in each of those extensive considered necessary parent in Catholicism? comparable reason... pagan religions have been oftentimes widely used around lady deities. Earth strengthen right into a mom, as have been lots of the main advantageous pagan figures. followers of those religions did not hook up with the male Christ-centric dogma of Christianity. So Mary strengthen into extra desirable in magnitude to create a considered necessary lady function in the Christian faith, thereby offering a much better commonality with with people the church strengthen into attempting to transform.

Answer 5

I'm a christian but I'm not a catholic,we didn't celebrate Easter as well coz we only believe of what is written in that bible.i am a church of Christ member a non denominational religion.maybe because they celebrating Easter because of the tradition that learn from their parents and ancestors.I dont know why they celebrate them.

Answer 6

You should have seen the answers the Christians were giving to Easter questions on here this weekend. You seem remarkably well informed compared to the vast majority of them.

Answer 7

lol. Glad you realize where it comes from. The point is the reason its all done at that time. To convert the pagans. The point is that Christianity stole all those from other religions. Nothing Christianity has done is original. And most Christians really don't believe that those traditions came from Pagan ways. Its insulting to Pagans.

Don't you see the hypcrisy in celebrating with Pagan traditions in a Christian religion?

As for your gods existance, I don't share your opinion.

Answer 8

Amen. Been talking to legalists and they really got in my head. This AM in the shower the Lord spoke to me and lifted my load. "The life I live I live by faith in the son of Man" Faith! not works. It doesn't matter that Ishtar is the root for my holiday, it matters that He rose from the dead, and now lives in me by faith. I can never live up to the constraints of the law and keep it all perfect. I walk by FAITH and am therefore FREE!
If my grand kids hunt for eggs it is just to have fun. We are all aware of the fertility rites of spring; we are just having fun. We are catholics and protestants-walking in the freedom that Jesus bought for us so we can be free. "Let no one judge you in new moons or feasts..." Amen

Answer 9

It is not the true Christians. It is the Roman Castholics church members who are doing it in violation of the teachings of the bible.

All those you mentioned are not biblical.
jtm

Answer 10

" Why do so many people believe that Christians don't know the History of Easter? ...."

Well, ..... for starters ... because most Christians DON'T know the history of the name "Easter," the rabbit, the eggs or any of that other old Anglo-Saxon paganism stuff.

Christians do, however, know the Christian history of "Easter."

Kev