The Easter Egg Hunts: The Easter Bunny vs Jesus

Should churhces hold easter egg hunts

  • YES

  • NO


Results are only viewable after voting.

SAAN

Newbie
Apr 26, 2013
2,034
489
Atlanta, GA
✟80,985.00
Faith
Christian
Marital Status
Married
When our children have their easter egg hunt there's nothing pagan about it.



And yet we still give out presents to our Sunday School kids. Imagine that.



I'm not a Messianic Jew. I don't really care what they do. I wouldn't sit here and tell them they were silly for what they did, though.

Your beliefs are too legalistic. And your posts are starting to sound a bit like something that would come out of a Pharisee's mouth.

"I THANK GOD THAT I AM NOT LIKE THOSE LUTHERAN SINNERS WHO HAVE EASTER EGG HUNTS!"

As usual following the bibles example makes you a legalistic pharisee.

Im done on this topic, I have pointed out how egg hunts have nothing to do with Jesus, not biblical, have pagan origins, how God said do not copy those type of customs and worship him in the same exact manner.

Im shaking the dist off my feet on this topic
Mark 6:11


11 And whoever will not receive you nor hear you, when you depart from there, shake off the dust under your feet as a testimony against them. Assuredly, I say to you, it will be more tolerable for Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of judgment than for that city!”


And No Im not condemning you, im just done with this topic. If you feel Easter egg hunts can lead children to Christ so be it, but if they get older ask you why are they even doing it, where it came from , how it originated, and how does it even have anything to do with the cross, be prepared to give a valid answer to them if they have done their research and found out and pointed out.



.
 
Upvote 0

LittleLambofJesus

Hebrews 2:14.... Pesky Devil, git!
Supporter
May 19, 2015
125,492
28,587
73
GOD's country of Texas
Visit site
✟1,237,240.00
Country
United States
Faith
Christian
Marital Status
Single
Politics
US-Libertarian
As usual following the bibles example makes you a legalistic pharisee.

Im done on this topic, I have pointed out how egg hunts have nothing to do with Jesus, not biblical, have pagan origins, how God said do not copy those type of customs and worship him in the same exact manner.

Im shaking the dist off my feet on this topic
:D
I have thought about that myself, but I enjoy it too much

Mark 6:11
And who soever should not be receiving ye, nor should be hearing ye, going out thence, shake off! the dust/coun <5522> the underneath thine feet into a testimony to them.
Amen I say unto ye, it shall be more tolerable to Sodom or Gomorrha in a day of judgment than that City".
[#5522 used in Revelation 18:19]

The Destruction of Jerusalem - George Peter Holford, 1805AD
THE DESTRUCTION OF JERUSALEM AD70

Revelation 18:19
And they cast dust/coun <5522> upon their heads and cried-out lamenting and mourning saying "Woe! Woe! the great City, in which are-rich all those having ships in the sea out of her preciousness!
that in one hour She was desolated.

Kansas - Dust In The Wind - YouTube


.
 
Upvote 0

Jipsah

Blood Drinker
Aug 17, 2005
12,294
3,677
70
Franklin, Tennessee
✟218,125.00
Country
United States
Faith
Anglican
Marital Status
Married
Politics
US-Others
As usual following the bibles example makes you a legalistic pharisee.
But what the "no easter egg" folks are doing *isn't* "following the Bible's example", it's constructing a new "thou shalt not" rule based on what they think the Bible their purely subjective interpretation of what the Bible "means". That's pure Phariseeism.

I have pointed out how egg hunts have nothing to do with Jesus
Agreed.

, not biblical
Agreed.

have pagan origins
Nope, you failed there by citing bogus "history".

, how God said do not copy those type of customs
Failed - eisegesis.

and worship him in the same exact manner.
Egg hunting isn't a form of worship, and as best anyone can tell, never was.

Im shaking the dist off my feet on this topic
Fair enough.
 
Upvote 0

Jipsah

Blood Drinker
Aug 17, 2005
12,294
3,677
70
Franklin, Tennessee
✟218,125.00
Country
United States
Faith
Anglican
Marital Status
Married
Politics
US-Others
No, what Christianity does is slaps the name Jesus on top of everything no matter whats it origins and then says, these are the origins of X,Y,Z from now now, just ignore everything before we came along and defined it.
I manage to ignore paganism in all its forms, past and present. I don't care what a bunch of benighted pagans did or do, and see no reason why I should. Their "gods" didn't exist, and their "religion" is nonsense. If they believed that rabbits laid eggs then more fools they. Why should I care about such towering ignorance?

As for Pascha, didnt Jesus say keep the PASSOVER, not pascha.
Quote, please. As we are not Jewish, I see no reason tp keep thr Passover, especially when Passover is simply a foreshadowing of the redemption bought by Christ. Jews still keep Passover because they don't believe in He Whom the Passover foreshadows. Christians know the full reality. We keep Easter/Pascha. He is RISEN!

Have you ever stopped to think where did Pascha get red eggs from
That's Jack Chick "history" again, at best meaningless, and at worst a lie and a deception that serves no purpose but to create a phony issue to dovide Christians.
 
Upvote 0
Dec 16, 2011
5,208
2,548
57
Home
Visit site
✟234,667.00
Country
United States
Faith
Eastern Orthodox
Marital Status
Married
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.

The true origins of how this stuff came about is , in actuality, that these so-called pagan symbols are the material expressions of archetypes which exist within the collective unconsciousness of man. Our own Christian symbolic expressions and practices came about in much the same way, and have the same meaning and significance to our psyche.

Perhaps instead of seeking ways that we may use our religion to support the adolescent notion that we are morally superior to others based upon their works as contrasted with our own, we should embark upon more serious studies of the human psyche throughout the history of civilization in order to dispell any foolish, "Jehovah's Witnesses" style nonsensical superstitious attitudes that we may wish to retain, to our own spiritual detriment.

I recommend the following as a good introduction: "Man and His Symbols" by C.G. Jung. It's available on Kindle.
 
Last edited:
  • Like
Reactions: MKJ
Upvote 0

Keachian

On Sabbatical
Feb 3, 2010
7,096
330
34
Horse-lie-down
Visit site
✟16,342.00
Faith
Baptist
Marital Status
Single
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.

Unbiased here means unbelieving unscholarly work that is about as ludicrous as Zeitgeist in making postulations that are outside of the postulators field of expertise (if they have one).
 
Upvote 0

LittleLambofJesus

Hebrews 2:14.... Pesky Devil, git!
Supporter
May 19, 2015
125,492
28,587
73
GOD's country of Texas
Visit site
✟1,237,240.00
Country
United States
Faith
Christian
Marital Status
Single
Politics
US-Libertarian
Originally Posted by SAAN
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.
Unbiased here means unbelieving unscholarly work that is about as ludicrous as Zeitgeist in making postulations that are outside of the postulators field of expertise (if they have one).
How do you know thay don't have one?

Axiom - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

An axiom, or postulate, is a premise or starting point of reasoning.
A self-evident principle or one that is accepted as true without proof as the basis for argument; a postulate. As classically conceived, an axiom is a premise so evident as to be accepted as true without controversy.[1] The word comes from the Greek &#7936;&#958;&#943;&#969;&#956;&#945; (&#257;x&#299;oma) 'that which is thought worthy or fit' or 'that which commends itself as evident.'[2][3] As used in modern logic, an axiom is simply a premise or starting point for reasoning....*snip*....

Strong's Greek Lexicon Search Results

514. axios probably from 71; deserving, comparable or suitable (as if drawing praise):--due reward, meet, (un-)worthy.
515. axioo from 514; to deem entitled or fit:--desire, think good, count (think) worthy.
516. axios adverb from 514; appropriately:--as becometh, after a godly sort, worthily(-thy).

Luk 3:8
Bring forth therefore fruits worthy G514 of repentance, and begin not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham to our father: for I say unto you, That God is able of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham.
 
Upvote 0

LittleLambofJesus

Hebrews 2:14.... Pesky Devil, git!
Supporter
May 19, 2015
125,492
28,587
73
GOD's country of Texas
Visit site
✟1,237,240.00
Country
United States
Faith
Christian
Marital Status
Single
Politics
US-Libertarian
Originally Posted by SAAN
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.
The true origins of how this stuff came about is , in actuality, that these so-called pagan symbols are the material expressions of archetypes which exist within the collective unconsciousness of man. Our own Christian symbolic expressions and practices came about in much the same way, and have the same meaning and significance to our psyche.

Perhaps instead of seeking ways that we may use our religion to support the adolescent notion that we are morally superior to others based upon their works as contrasted with our own, we should embark upon more serious studies of the human psyche throughout the history of civilization in order to dispell any foolish, "Jehovah's Witnesses" style nonsensical superstitious attitudes that we may wish to retain, to our own spiritual detriment.

I recommend the following as a good introduction: "Man and His Symbols" by C.G. Jung. It's available on Kindle.
QFT! :thumbsup: :amen:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0G6F0pyaT7c




.
 
Upvote 0

Dorothea

One of God's handmaidens
Jul 10, 2007
21,553
3,534
Colorado Springs, Colorado
✟240,029.00
Country
United States
Faith
Eastern Orthodox
Marital Status
Single
Politics
US-Others
I've never been one to promote the Easter Bunny. I've always thought it was quite strange. A bunny laying eggs and all. :confused:, but if other people do that, it doesn't matter to me. We've always had our red eggs for Pascha, and egg hunts are just for fun for the kiddies. Eggs do represent new life. :)
 
Upvote 0
This site stays free and accessible to all because of donations from people like you.
Consider making a one-time or monthly donation. We appreciate your support!
- Dan Doughty and Team Christian Forums

MKJ

Contributor
Jul 6, 2009
12,260
776
East
✟23,894.00
Faith
Anglican
Marital Status
Married
Politics
CA-Greens
I've never been one to promote the Easter Bunny. I've always thought it was quite strange. A bunny laying eggs and all. :confused:, but if other people do that, it doesn't matter to me. We've always had our red eggs for Pascha, and egg hunts are just for fun for the kiddies. Eggs do represent new life. :)

I think that the idea that the bunny lays the eggs is a joke really. He's supposed to deliver them, because he too is a symbol of new life, but I don't think the idea that he lays them is what you might call canonical.
 
Upvote 0

SolomonVII

Well-Known Member
Sep 4, 2003
23,138
4,918
Vancouver
✟147,506.00
Country
Canada
Faith
Catholic
Marital Status
Married
Politics
CA-Greens
In one of the churches I attended years ago, there was an egg hunt...as one previous poster suggested, it represents new life. So the egg hunt was a demonstration of how we should diligently seek new life in the death and resurrection of the risen Lord Jesus.
Personal confession.

I missed that lesson when I was a kid. For me it was all about diligently seeking sugar.
And chocolate.:yum:
 
Upvote 0

Dorothea

One of God's handmaidens
Jul 10, 2007
21,553
3,534
Colorado Springs, Colorado
✟240,029.00
Country
United States
Faith
Eastern Orthodox
Marital Status
Single
Politics
US-Others
I think that the idea that the bunny lays the eggs is a joke really. He's supposed to deliver them, because he too is a symbol of new life, but I don't think the idea that he lays them is what you might call canonical.
oh, ok. :)
 
Upvote 0

SolomonVII

Well-Known Member
Sep 4, 2003
23,138
4,918
Vancouver
✟147,506.00
Country
Canada
Faith
Catholic
Marital Status
Married
Politics
CA-Greens
There is very little theological significance to the Easter bunny, any more than there is to Bugs Bunny, or Dark Bunny.
There can be, I suppose, because there is a certain symbolism to eggs, and the appearance of new life and little bunnies popping up in the Spring from the dead of Winter.

The bigger question is whether we want our churches to be exclusively about teaching, or whether we want them to be about social connections and family oriented fun events as well, or whether we want people to seek such things elsewhere.

The message of Easter is so paradoxical, with the most diabolical, most horrifying, most barbaric and most inhumanely evil event in history happening one day, and then all of a sudden, it is all brightness and color, and a breezy light heartedness. It is innocence that has no memory, for with remembrance of the horror, all innocence is erased.

Eggs and cute little bunnies were around in pagan times to be sure, but they were there long before there were pagans, and they will no doubt still be there long after paganism becomes just another page of an unread history book.

Other than that, they are part of a family event, that will be part of the church community, or part of the culture that takes place outside of the church. It is really up to us whether we want to make our churches appeal to children and family fun in general.

Or just be a place to receive the bare-boned truth.
 
Last edited:
Upvote 0
This site stays free and accessible to all because of donations from people like you.
Consider making a one-time or monthly donation. We appreciate your support!
- Dan Doughty and Team Christian Forums