by saying the word easter are we also uttering the name of a pagan god?

Answer 1

Just try not to think about it. I think there's a statute of limitations on uttering pagan gods names. The word "Easter" has now come to mean something entirely different, so the pagan god is in essence, no more.

Answer 2

We utter pagan names all the time. Even the names of the days of the week and the months are of pagan origin. It is the culture within which we live. However there is a big difference between naming and worshipping.
That Easter is the anglicized form of the heathen goddess of fertility known as Astarte and by other variations is easily found in any decent online encyclopedia, even the Catholic one.The fact that the custom of celebrating Easter in place of the Passover was not begun by the church founded by Jesus Christ nor taught by any of his disciples nor by any of their converts is also a fact of real history. That the excuse for keeping Sunday in place of the Sabbath , being because of the so - called Easter resurrection - is likewise refuted by history, and it is lied about every week in every Protestant church. The Catholic religion does claim that it instituted Sunday and are proud to chastise the Protestants for being untrue to the Bible they profess to follow , but will not. See " Rome's Challenge to the Protestants" by Cardinal Gibbons. The text is found at www.cbcg.org , www.lcg.org , and other locations online.

Answer 3

Witches understand candy FA approximately church historic previous. The Christian ceremonial dinner of the Resurrection became into celebrated for over 4 hundred years in the past it have been given the call "Easter" in England while the Anglo-Saxons converted to Christianity. Its date and its unique call in Greek, Pascha, are derived from the Jewish Passover. it incredibly is the reason its call in maximum languages is according to Pascha - Paques in French, Pascua in Spanish etc. while the Anglo-Saxons converted, they have been informed via the church with regards to the season of Pascha; with regards to the Paschal month (April). Their call for April became into Eosturmonath so the easy human beings translated Pascha as Eostur, later Easter. The Church, of path, persevered to apply the unique Latin call of Pascha till the reformation one thousand years later. The Venerable Bede speculates that the month were named plenty till now after a goddess stated as Eostre whose worship had died out. there is genuinely NO different record of this goddess. NO myths, NO legends, NO writings, NO inscriptions, NO temples. She would not seem in any of the lists of Anglo-Saxon, Germanic or Norse Gods or Goddesses. modern pupils reckon Bede made her as much as clarify the call Eosturmonath. She never surely existed. "Eostur" in all danger basically meant daybreak or establishing, commencing up, spring - the commencing up of the Anglo-Saxon twelve months. and it incredibly is the reason smart counseled Christians, atheists and pagans enable you to realize that Easter isn't a pagan competition. it incredibly is a actuality.

Answer 4

the term lent or lenten also has an interesting pagan origin.
I prefer to celebrate Christ's resurrection every Sunday but that's just me.

No eggs, no bunny and no ham!

Answer 5

To answer your question; look below.

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..."
http://family.webshots.com/photo/1370351068049373547hLMhYB
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

The Easter Bunny and eggs deal with fertility of the goddess Ishtar. "Eggs, the obvious symbols of fertility and reproduction, were used in ancient fertility rites. They were painted with various magickal symbols and then cast into fires or buried in the earth as offerings to the Goddess. In certain parts of the world, Spring Equinox eggs were painted yellow or gold (sacred solar colors) and used in rituals to honor the Sun God. Easter, like every other Christian religious holiday is rich with an abundance of Pagan overtones, customs and traditions such as Easter eggs and Easter bunny. Eggs, as previously discussed were ancient fertility symbols and offerings to the Goddess of the Pagans and Witches in both western and eastern cultures, including the Goddess Ostara, whose escort was a rabbit. "
http://www.nobleknights.com/~eagle1/eostre1.htm

Easter Bunny Origination
http://search.yahoo.com/search?ei=utf-8&fr=slv8-&p=easter%20bunny%20come%20from--Ishtar--pagan
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easter_Bunny

EASTER EGGS
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

VERSES-- DEUT.4:19,28-31; 11:26-28; 17:3 & GAL.4:8-10.

Answer 6

Actually it would be Goddess, but technically no. The Goddess name is Ostara, or Eostra.

Answer 7

Ditto the person above me, except the goddess' name is Eostre.

Question asker - don't be hatin'!! ;)

Answer 8

I agree - the name is "Ishtar". However, do not fear; the Bible says that an idol is "nothing at all in the world".

Answer 9

No. You would have to say 'Easter Bunny'.

Answer 10

no she was a queen but who cares? Its all Christian now...lets not be so legalistic