The Easter Egg Hunts: The Easter Bunny vs Jesus

[SAAN]

You reckon the Babylonian pagans thought rabbits laid eggs? And if so, how'd they manage to convince Christians to believe it? And why?

Huh?

You clearly hold dearly to the Easter bunny, so answer a few questions.

Did Jesus hold a Easter egg hunt?

Did the apostles throw a Easter egg hunt in honor of Jesus?

What doe as rabbit have anything remotely close to do with the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus who died for our sins?

Does God not tell us to NOT merge pagan customs and try to worship him in the same exact way?

 

[SAAN]

Third chapter of Jude?

One would hope.

Lots of churches leave off the egg hunting. I personally think it's a distraction and I'd rather not have it, but in the great scheme of thing doesn't really matter that much. No grounds for a "thou shalt not" there.

There is no 3rd chapter in Jude!

 

[PaladinValer]

I know many churches innocently do Easter egg hunts for the kiddies, but have they ever once thought how that has ZERO to do with Jesus.

Nor does the internet. Does your church have internet access?

Seriously, an egg laying rabbit full of colorful candy!!!

All in good fun.

An Egg laying rabbit is 100% pagan and has zero to do with the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus.

Actually, it isn't Pagan. It is an 18th century ce psuedohistory.

And while it may have nothing to do with Jesus, it is a fun cultural thing to do.

There is nothing in the Bible or Christian tradition that links the two together, yet many churchs continue to do Easter egg hunts.

Some Churches need to do better.

The idea that the secular and sacred are diametrically opposed is heretical.

 

[simonthezealot]

Be in the world, not of the world.

Lying damages kids.

 

[SAAN]

Nor does the internet. Does your church have internet access?



All in good fun.



Actually, it isn't Pagan. It is an 18th century ce psuedohistory.

And while it may have nothing to do with Jesus, it is a fun cultural thing to do.



The idea that the secular and sacred are diametrically opposed is heretical.

Your answers are SCREAMING Roman Catholicism.


Your internet comment is invalid and out church uses the internet to stream services and spread the gospel.


All in good fun should not go against DIRECT commands from God telling his people to NOT imitate the way the pagans worshiped their Gods and treat him the same way, he calls it an ABOMINATION.


Actually it is 100% pagan origins. The fact that a rabbit cant lay an egg is proof this is Babylon paganism when are copying and merging into our celebrations.


What does a Egg Laying, candy giving bunny rabbit have to do with the death, burial, and resurrection of our Lord and savior Jesus Christ, yet we allow this crap to be aprt of our celebration in honoring him.

" it is a fun cultural thing to do." should not be going directly against what God told us not do do.


It is 100% possible to have Easter without the Bunny Rabbit and Egg Hunts. The holiday is about Jesus and honoring him, not trying to merge old pagan traditions into it because it was fun thing to do.

 

[PaladinValer]

Be in the world, not of the world.

Lying damages kids.

Pretend play is a vital aspect of a child's developing social skills.

Your answers are SCREAMING Roman Catholicism.

Cop-out reply.

Oh, and note my icon: I'm an Anglican, not a Roman Catholic.

Your internet comment is invalid and out church uses the internet to stream services and spread the gospel.

It is perfectly valid because it isn't mentioned in Holy Scripture or has anything to do with Jesus.

All in good fun should not go against DIRECT commands from God telling his people to NOT imitate the way the pagans worshiped their Gods and treat him the same way, he calls it an ABOMINATION.

Your story about Babylon is 18th century ce psuedohistoric nonsense.

Actually it is 100% pagan origins. The fact that a rabbit cant lay an egg is proof this is Babylon paganism when are copying and merging into our celebrations.

Nope; sorry. No such thing. Such ideas can only be traced to the 18th century ce, just like the fanciful farce of a goddess named "Eoster" which is a modern age reconstruction.

What does a Egg Laying, candy giving bunny rabbit have to do with the death, burial, and resurrection of our Lord and savior Jesus Christ, yet we allow this crap to be aprt of our celebration in honoring him.

Straw Man.

" it is a fun cultural thing to do." should not be going directly against what God told us not do do.

Except He didn't.

It is 100% possible to have Easter without the Bunny Rabbit and Egg Hunts. The holiday is about Jesus and honoring him, not trying to merge old pagan traditions into it because it was fun thing to do.

Straw Man.

 

[ValleyGal]

Waaait a minute. There's a lot of talk about rabbits laying eggs. But I thought it was the rabbit who delivered and hid the eggs that had baby chicks in them. The rabbit was a bit of a prankster

 

[LittleLambofJesus]

Waaait a minute. There's a lot of talk about rabbits laying eggs. But I thought it was the rabbit who delivered and hid the eggs that had baby chicks in them.
The rabbit was a bit of a prankster

Rabbit and chicken stew....yummy!

The Destruction of Jerusalem - George Peter Holford, 1805AD

"I consider the Prophecy relative to the destruction of the Jewish nation,
if there were nothing else to support Christianity, as absolutely irresistible."
(Mr. Erskine's Speech, at the Trial of Williams, for publishing Paine's Age of Reason)​

Mat 23:37
O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them which are sent unto thee,
how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not!

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[Knee V]

I would be curious to see an ancient Babylonian document discussing Ishtar and Tamuz and the egg-laying bunnies.

 

[Knee V]

There is no 3rd chapter in Jude!

That was his point.

 

[SAAN]

Pretend play is a vital aspect of a child's developing social skills.



Cop-out reply.

Oh, and note my icon: I'm an Anglican, not a Roman Catholic.



It is perfectly valid because it isn't mentioned in Holy Scripture or has anything to do with Jesus.



Your story about Babylon is 18th century ce psuedohistoric nonsense.



Nope; sorry. No such thing. Such ideas can only be traced to the 18th century ce, just like the fanciful farce of a goddess named "Eoster" which is a modern age reconstruction.



Straw Man.



Except He didn't.



Straw Man.

Someone is in deeeep denial about the true origins of how this stuff came about. One day when you do some unbiased research and step back and let the info speak for itself instead of finding what you will want to hear and you will find the truth on the matter.

You go back to 1800's and stop there because that is when it means what you want it to mean. keep going back before that and you will find the actual truth.

 

[South Bound]

I know many churches innocently do Easter egg hunts for the kiddies, but have they ever once thought how that has ZERO to do with Jesus.


Seriously, an egg laying rabbit full of colorful candy!!!

An Egg laying rabbit is 100% pagan and has zero to do with the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus. There is nothing in the Bible or Christian tradition that links the two together, yet many churchs continue to do Easter egg hunts.

Some Churches need to do better.

While I don't think the Church should be an entertainment center, I don't believe we should be dour and joyless, either.

What we do is to take plastic eggs and put a piece of candy and a clue in each egg. When the children collect all the eggs, we put the clues together and they present the Gospel and the resurrection story.

 

[Tangible]

 

[SAAN]

While I don't think the Church should be an entertainment center, I don't believe we should be dour and joyless, either.

What we do is to take plastic eggs and put a piece of candy and a clue in each egg. When the children collect all the eggs, we put the clues together and they present the Gospel and the resurrection story.

Even though I think egg hunts have nothing to do with Jesus, I can actually respect that if they get bible verses in the eggs and can come away with something spiritual in the message in regards to the resurrection vs what many churches do of just candy to keep the kiddies happy and they dont know 1 thing about Jesus afterwards..

 

[simonthezealot]

(Catholic dictionary)...(HERE)
2. Easter Eggs
Because the use of eggs was forbidden during Lent, they were brought to the table on Easter Day, coloured red to symbolize the Easter joy. This custom is found not only in the Latin but also in the Oriental Churches. The symbolic meaning of a new creation of mankind by Jesus risen from the dead was probably an invention of later times. The custom may have its origin in paganism, for a great many pagan customs, celebrating the return of spring, gravitated to Easter. The egg is the emblem of the germinating life of early spring. Easter eggs, the children are told, come from Rome with the bells which on Thursday go to Rome and return Saturday morning. The sponsors in some countries give Easter eggs to their god-children. Coloured eggs are used by children at Easter in a sort of game which consists in testing the strength of the shells (Kraus, Real-Encyklop die, s. v. Ei). Both coloured and uncoloured eggs are used in some parts of the United States for this game, known as "egg-picking". Another practice is the "egg-rolling" by children on Easter Monday on the lawn of the White House in Washington.
3. The Easter Rabbit
The Easter Rabbit lays the eggs, for which reason they are hidden in a nest or in the garden. The rabbit is a pagan symbol and has always been an emblem of fertility (Simrock, Mythologie, 551).

 

[SAAN]

(Catholic dictionary)...(HERE)
2. Easter Eggs
Because the use of eggs was forbidden during Lent, they were brought to the table on Easter Day, coloured red to symbolize the Easter joy. This custom is found not only in the Latin but also in the Oriental Churches. The symbolic meaning of a new creation of mankind by Jesus risen from the dead was probably an invention of later times. The custom may have its origin in paganism, for a great many pagan customs, celebrating the return of spring, gravitated to Easter. The egg is the emblem of the germinating life of early spring. Easter eggs, the children are told, come from Rome with the bells which on Thursday go to Rome and return Saturday morning. The sponsors in some countries give Easter eggs to their god-children. Coloured eggs are used by children at Easter in a sort of game which consists in testing the strength of the shells (Kraus, Real-Encyklop die, s. v. Ei). Both coloured and uncoloured eggs are used in some parts of the United States for this game, known as "egg-picking". Another practice is the "egg-rolling" by children on Easter Monday on the lawn of the White House in Washington.
3. The Easter Rabbit
The Easter Rabbit lays the eggs, for which reason they are hidden in a nest or in the garden. The rabbit is a pagan symbol and has always been an emblem of fertility (Simrock, Mythologie, 551).

WOW!!!! People actually buy that nonsense too.

 

[SAAN]

WHY EASTER EGGS ARE REALLY RED AND HOW IT CAME ABOUT:

The actual truth, not what the RCC will teach you.

There are many different sources of this story, but ill just put one since they are all based off the same legend.



Semiramis, the queen of heaven, was “born again” as the goddess Easter (Ashtarte) as she emerged from a giant egg that landed in the Euphrates river at sunrise on the sunday after the vernal equinox. To proclaim her divine authority, she changed a bird into an egg laying rabbit. As the cult developed, the priests of Easter would impregnate young virgins on the altar of the goddess of fertility at sunrise on Easter Sunday. A year later the priests of Easter would sacrifice those three-month-old babies on the altar at the front of the Sanctuary and dye Easter eggs in the blood of the sacrificed infants



This Babylon legend is where red Easter eggs came from and why the universal color of eggs are red. Its the RCC that later came along and tried to fluff it up to have different origins.

 

[Rhamiel]

WOW!!!! People actually buy that nonsense too.

why do you call it nonsense?

you are spouting stuff about ancient Babylon....
Western culture comes from the Greeks and the Romans and mixing in the middle ages with the Celtic peoples and Saxons and Franks and the Germanic tribes

nope, no Babylonian influence in Western Culture

you going on about Babylon seems way more nonsensical

 

[PaladinValer]

Someone is in deeeep denial about the true origins of how this stuff came about.

So when confronted with the truth, attack the person?

Do reread the first point under Flaming and Harassment in the rules. Do not address my person again.

One day when you do some unbiased research and step back and let the info speak for itself instead of finding what you will want to hear and you will find the truth on the matter.

You go back to 1800's and stop there because that is when it means what you want it to mean. keep going back before that and you will find the actual truth.

I am a historian; your position is wrong. End of story.

 

[Kristos]

WHY EASTER EGGS ARE REALLY RED AND HOW IT CAME ABOUT:

The actual truth, not what the RCC will teach you.

There are many different sources of this story, but ill just put one since they are all based off the same legend.



Semiramis, the queen of heaven, was “born again” as the goddess Easter (Ashtarte) as she emerged from a giant egg that landed in the Euphrates river at sunrise on the sunday after the vernal equinox. To proclaim her divine authority, she changed a bird into an egg laying rabbit. As the cult developed, the priests of Easter would impregnate young virgins on the altar of the goddess of fertility at sunrise on Easter Sunday. A year later the priests of Easter would sacrifice those three-month-old babies on the altar at the front of the Sanctuary and dye Easter eggs in the blood of the sacrificed infants



This Babylon legend is where red Easter eggs came from and why the universal color of eggs are red. Its the RCC that later came along and tried to fluff it up to have different origins.

We still impregnate virgins on the altar too, so I can totally see the connection!