Why don't Christians celebrate passover along with Easter?

Question

Passover is an important Jewish holiday where Jews celebrate being taken out of bondage in Egypt. Its name comes from when the Angel of Death saw the blood of the Passover lamb on the doorposts of the houses of Israel and "skipped over" them and did not kill their firstborn.

Easter is commemorating when Christ died on the cross and became a permanent sacrifice, and allowed all people to be taken out of bondage to sin. This took place at the same time as passover did.

As I understand it, Christians consider themselves to be Jewish by adoption through Jesus.

Answer 1

HI,

I believe the real reason Christians do not feel compelled to celebrate Passover is because they are taught in the church that those rules only apply to Israelites/Jews.

Passover(along with a host of other rules and holidays) were issued to the Israelites/Jews because they were the chosen people. One might ask, 'chosen for what'? They were chosen to pass out the true rules, laws and holidays of God to the rest of the world. (See the books of Numbers, Leviticus and Romans where you will see that the rules always applied to everyone and not just the Isrealites/Jews: Num 15:14-16, Lev 24:22, Rom 2:13-14.)

However, the Israelites/Jews did not fulfill this and instead went away from God's Laws and holidays and got themselves exiled into the whole world where they have since lost a lot of those original rules and still don't pass them out to anyone.

Thus Yeshua/Christ had to come onto the scene to spread the rules, amended laws and holidays to all people so that everyone would have a chance at salvation.

Please note Yeshua/Christ was an Israelite/Jew. He was sent to speak to them, while the disciples were sent to spread the word to the gentiles.

God has always had one set of rules and regulations for everyone otherwise he couldn't judge people the same. It's just that he expected these chosen people to do the job, but just look around today. How many Christians even know this information?

Answer 2

Some Christians do celebrate it - -but on one day, not over a longer period as Jews do. In the Christian calendar it is called (in English) Holy Thursday or "Maundy Thursday" (the latter is I think used more by Church of England?)

It is a commemoration of Jesus's own celebration of Passover, which became the beginning of the ritual of the Eucharist- -what most Christians call "the Last Supper" was a Passover Seder. Jesus ate with his disciples before going out to pray in the garden, where he was betrayed and arrested.

I think it is because the Good Friday through Easter Sunday period is the most important time of the Christian religion, so that overshadows and transforms the Passover tradition, but does not erase it.

However some Christians who want to be connected to the Jewish tradition do actually have a Seder meal that is more in the Jewish tradition.

Answer 3

That's a good question. The simple answer is that, rather than celebrate the Passing Over of the Jewish households when the Lord went through Egypt, thereby sparing the firstborn of all Israel (who sacrificed a lamb and put the blood on the doorframe), Christians instead celebrate the event for which that was forshadowing - the Spirit of God's sparing believers through the blood of His Son, Jesus Christ.

But the reality is that many do celebrate Passover. In fact, I've participated in a couple Seders and found them to be very informative and rejuvenating. It's good to take time every now and then and remember what God has done throughout history. I'm including links for a couple Christian based Passover Seder books.

Answer 4

Unfortunately you are totally wrong about Easter and almost totally wrong about Christmas. Easter was first celebrated by Christians before 190 AD. It was first called Pascha and still is in Greek and Latin and by similar names - Paques, Pascua, - in other languages. It was celebrated during Passover or on the Sunday afterwards. The church settled on the Sunday observance of the festival of the Resurrection by 200 AD. This is documented fact, as is the fact that it's date is based on the Passover, though the exact formulae used by Jews and Christians do differ for historical reasons. All this was long before Constantine, long before any encounter with Anglo-Saxons and their supposed goddess, long before the name "Easter" was used by the English. This is not a matter of religious conviction, it is a matter of historical facts which you have simply got wrong. Christmas similarly was first celebrated by Christians in the 3rd century AD on a date when there was NO traditional pagan festival, though an emperor did institute a festival on the same date at about the same time. Christians probably chose it first. Conclusion _ Christmas and Easter are both ancient Christian festivals with no proven link to anything pagan whatsoever. The only reason they are known as pagan in the USA and UK is because of anti-catholic propaganda, which is mostly lies, and plain ignorance.

Answer 5

In a way we do ... Passover was the Jewish celebration in which Jesus performed the spectacle of the Last Supper which is performed monthly in most non-denominational Christian churches as "communion". This represents the Last Supper as Jesus performed the ceremony on Good Friday. We choose to celebrate Easter because it was the time when Jesus was the first among us to be risen after death and that symbolizes hope and promise.

Answer 6

Because Passover is a Jewish holiday, and not a Christian holiday. Why don't Christian's celebrate Ramadan? Get the point!

Answer 7

because the passover in the christian way it's the holy week when Jesus christ suffered and died in jerusalem and the sunday he is alive again.. that's the christian passover.. the last supper is the celebration of the seder of pesaj for christians.. and crufixition it's like when hebrews were slaved in egypt..and the sunday of resurrection it's the day of the freedom.. jesus is alive

Answer 8

because passover, along with all of the Jewish holidays were foreshadowing Christ and different events in His life so to celebrate the passover would be redundant of celebrating Easter....

Answer 9

I'm Christian and we celebrate passover by watching Charleston Heston in the Ten Commandments :-)

Answer 10

Passover is not Pagan, so it was not accepted by the mother harlot, the Vatican.

All Christians obey Vatican, no matter how "Protestant" they are.