is the resurrection of christ celebrated this time of year really a cover up for the pagan holiday of easter?

Question

i mean....supposedly christ wasn't born on Dec 25.....but they have said so to cover up a pagan holiday...I just can't remember which

Answer 1

Just as Jesus came to sanctify the world, so too did the Church, the mystical body of Christ, sanctify pagan holidays to make them holy.

Nothing wrong with that.

Answer 2

The Holiday of easter Is always Placed After the First Full moon in march, The Church needed to find ways to convert People to the New religion **chritianity** so they had to Place the Christian Holidays Close to the Older Pagan Holidays, Not to mention the new Christian Holidays adopted Many of the pagan Holidays traditions, For example Easter eggs, And The easter bunny, The Holiday Easter Was came from the Pagan Holiday Ostara which falls On the spring Equinox, it was a celebration to the Saxon Moon Goddess Ostara, ostarta was always depicted with the Hare or also known as rabbit, the eggs in which we Hunt are meerly symbols of Fertility, Clearly the Church couldnt Do away with all of these Pagan Customs so they just adopted them and turned them into Christian customs, eventually reaching their goal of Converting the pagans of europe to Christianity,



hope this answered your Question :)

Answer 3

We know Easter is not the day of the resurrection of Jesus because it is not the on the same date each year. Easter always comes the first Sunday after the first equinox.
Long before Christianity, Babylon had a goddess named "Ishtar" the goddess of reproduction. In the spring she was honored as the giver of all new life. Eggs, a symbol of fertility, were worshipped, and rabbits, prolific reproducers, were also worshipped. That's where we get Easter rabbits and Easter eggs. Ishtar's day was always celebrated the first Sunday, after the first full moon, after the equinox. As we progress through history, we come to Rome around 300 A.D.
Constantine, the ruler, claimed he had become a Christian. He simply took Ishtar's day and transferred it to honor Jesus Christ the giver of life, on Easter. Papal Rome then continued this, and during the 1260 years reign, spread it to the whole world. That's why all Christians celebrate Easter. I don't believe there is anything wrong with celebrating the resurrection of Christ, but I do believe we need to be careful mixing all the paganism into it.

Christmas on Dec. 25th also comes from Babylon. In Balylon the sun was worshipped as the supreme god. As the year progresed and the days grew shorter the people feared the sun was leaving them. On December 22 they began conducting long rituals and sacrifices to the sun god, appealing for it to return for another year. On Dec. 25th they could determine the day was getting longer again and on this day they held a great celebration rejoicing in the rebirth of the sun. This was practiced right up to Rome. Constantine did the same thing here. He substituted the birth of the sun in the sky for the birth of the Son of God - Jesus Christ. Papal Rome continues it, spread it to all the world, and that's why many Christians celebrate Dec. 25th. Again, I don't believe there is anything wrong with celebrating the birth of Christ, however we still need to be careful of how we celebrate.

Both holidays are so commercialized, and most people are in it for the money. We need to put Chirst back in these holidays and get rid of everything else.

Also realizing this it should raise our conscious level to ask the question, "If these things slipped in so easily, could there be other things to? Teachings and practices that do contradict the Word of God? Yes. I believe there are.

God warns the world of it in Revelation 18:2-3. Please read.

Answer 4

Practically every Christian holiday is to covert a pagan holiday. Easter is the conversion of the annual spring celebration. Christmas is the conversion of the winter celebration. Christ was supposed to be born during the census, which never took place in winter. The eggs and chicks of Easter are the remanents of the spring festival. The Christmas tree is a pagan symbol that was originally adorned with candles but the christians added apples to symbolize the Garden of Eden.

Answer 5

It is probably Easter, that you are thinking of. So many people here, so eager to throw down the gauntlet, but no one is looking for a fight. At least I'm not.

I have heard that Easter was a pagan celebration for a god or goddess of some sort. But you want to somehow relate this to a spiritual observance. I mean Easter.

To understand where i'm going, are you familiar with the joke, "Does England have a 4th of July?" Even if this throws you a moment (it's designed to mess with your preconceptions about the USA), you should sooner or later realize or someone should reveal: of course they do! There is a 4th of July on every spot in the planet! (Sorry for the spoiler, to my joke telling and reading compadres.)

Now back to your question. Why do Christians need to cover up a pagan celebration? Means nothing to us, or to God, or Jesus, for that matter. Our observance is directly related to the event that we, as Christians, all believe occurred: that Christ arose on the third day, victorious over death and the grave! This is what we celebrate, no matter what someone else had to do with the day.

Great question, though! Very insightful! Have a star!

Answer 6

I would like to clarify something here.

Yes, Christmas was placed on the Roman holiday of Saturnalia which gave gifts to one another. It's a case where the ruling authorities wanted to get rid of the Pagan influences and replace them with Christian ones.

As a Christian, even though the day is on the same one, we use this as a day to reflect on Christ's birth. And yes, most of us do exchange Christmas gifts with one another. But ultimately, we do consider this a Christian holiday.

In regards to Oester, that is one reason why many Christians are now calling the day Resurrection day. Because this is a very important day to us as we do remember the Last Supper (Maundy Thursday) Christ's death and burial (Good Friday) and resurrection (Easter). To us, the original roots of the holiday are not what is important, because we cannot change that fact. However, what we are observing is not a celebration of Mithra as some will claim, but it's a time to reflect on why Christ's death burial and resurrection are so important to us. We believe that through the gift of Christ's death, our sins were paid for, and through his resurrection, we have the hope of eternal life.

Answer 7

Of course this all goes back to constantine wanting everybody to convert to Christianity in the most peaceful way possible. I don't think he was trying to cover up Pagan holidays so much as he saw how the core messages of these holidays matched so well with some of the core messages of these Christian events (rebirth, resurrection, redemption, new life)...so it was an easy blend.

As a Christian, I'm perfectly fine with the Pagan bunny and egg symbols, because the core message of these symbols (fertility, birth, new life) are just fine and dandy concepts to me.

Answer 8

Jesus was not born on Dec 25 and did not rise on easter. The churches don't bother covering that up anymore. They are both used to cover up pagan holidays. maybe yule- in december. Ostara in spring.

Answer 9

Most (if not all) holidays surrounding the concept of christ have "absorbed" pagan holidays. In many cases the original christian holiday was later moved to a different date to take over the pagan one (i.e., halloween, christmas)

Answer 10

the times and dates of all things where placed by the Romans in their attempt to gain control every "Holiday" is around or on a ancient pagan day like the saints so that pagans of the days of old could make an easy transition from pagan minorities as in religion "pagan" term is used to group smaller or bigger religious groups Easter is one of them as well as the virgin Mary she was "celebrated" because the Christians of old wanted to give a smooth transition to the people they converted