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The Article is spinning but when the KJV of the Bible is your only spirit of truth what can you expect but to welcome the errors and spin any decent that proves KJV a bad translation“Easter” Is Not A Mistranslation
Nope. Big error on your part. Should be the Pagan holiday, just like King James has it. Article explains it quite well. It was not Passover.. Sometimes we must use some common sense (not just the letter). Note the Strong's definition. It does say pascha but using common sense (which is what we see in the article posted) it couldn't mean Easter as we know it, the dates just don't line up. So even if Strong's got it wrong (at least in this case), God (as usual) got it right.
This "Easter" we read about in Acts was the "Pagan" Easter, not the "Christian" Easter celebrated by Christians today, which was instituted by the Catholic church and is not biblical at all (probably instituted in order to try and take the Pagans away from their "Easter" which was worship of Ishtar, Isis, Diana, or one of the other Pagan goddesses). This is similar to the way that they instituted Christmas (also not biblical) in place of pagan Saturnaliia. Nowhere in scripture do we see the original church celebrating these two Pagan holidays.
G3957 πάσχα pascha pas'-khah
Of Chaldee origin (compare [H6453]); the Passover (the meal, the day, the festival or the special sacrifices connected with it):—Easter, Passover.
Of course it is a pagan holiday. But I know you do not care for KJV is full of errors. Of course the dates don't line up an Rome merge Easter and Passover holidays so the pagan friends could joint into the festivity with pagan Easter eggs, pagan Easter bunnies etc. Rome made everything the same to merge Baal with Christianity. If you believe Rome had it right which is the case with KJV mis-translation.
However, early Christianity made a pragmatic acceptance of ancient pagan practises, most of which we enjoy today at Easter. The general symbolic story of the death of the son (sun) on a cross (the constellation of the Southern Cross) and his rebirth, overcoming the powers of darkness, was a well worn story in the ancient world. There were plenty of parallel, rival resurrected saviours too.
The Sumerian goddess Inanna, or Ishtar, was hung naked on a stake, and was subsequently resurrected and ascended from the underworld. One of the oldest resurrection myths is Egyptian Horus. Born on 25 December, Horus and his damaged eye became symbols of life and rebirth. Mithras was born on what we now call Christmas day, and his followers celebrated the spring equinox. Even as late as the 4th century AD, the sol invictus, associated with Mithras, was the last great pagan cult the church had to overcome. Dionysus was a divine child, resurrected by his grandmother. Dionysus also brought his mum, Semele, back to life.
In an ironic twist, the Cybele cult flourished on today's Vatican Hill. Cybele's lover Attis, was born of a virgin, died and was reborn annually. This spring festival began as a day of blood on Black Friday, rising to a crescendo after three days, in rejoicing over the resurrection. There was violent conflict on Vatican Hill in the early days of Christianity between the Jesus worshippers and pagans who quarrelled over whose God was the true, and whose the imitation. What is interesting to note here is that in the ancient world, wherever you had popular resurrected god myths, Christianity found lots of converts. So, eventually Christianity came to an accommodation with the pagan Spring festival. Although we see no celebration of Easter in the New Testament, early church fathers celebrated it, and today many churches are offering "sunrise services" at Easter – an obvious pagan solar celebration. The date of Easter is not fixed, but instead is governed by the phases of the moon – how pagan is that?
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All the fun things about Easter are pagan. Bunnies are a leftover from the pagan festival of Eostre, a great northern goddess whose symbol was a rabbit or hare. Exchange of eggs is an ancient custom, celebrated by many cultures. Hot cross buns are very ancient too. In the Old Testament we see the Israelites baking sweet buns for an idol, and religious leaders trying to put a stop to it. The early church clergy also tried to put a stop to sacred cakes being baked at Easter. In the end, in the face of defiant cake-baking pagan women, they gave up and blessed the cake instead.
Easter is essentially a pagan festival which is celebrated with cards, gifts and novelty Easter products, because it's fun and the ancient symbolism still works. It's always struck me that the power of nature and the longer days are often most felt in modern towns and cities, where we set off to work without putting on our car headlights and when our alarm clock goes off in the mornings, the streetlights outside are not still on because of the darkness.
What better way to celebrate, than to bite the head off the bunny goddess, go to a "sunrise service", get yourself a sticky-footed fluffy chick and stick it on your TV, whilst helping yourself to a hefty slice of pagan simnel cake? Happy Easter everyone!
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