Why easter.

[Miss Shelby]

Which one is the true Holy Day ordained by God & which one is
a Pagan celebration that has infiltrated the church

Do you wanna know how the EAster Bunny originated? See one day Jesus was walking along in one of the towns, maybe it was Bethany, I dunno. He was with his apostles and they said 'Lord, why did you come'--and Jesus said 'To bring peace on earth, I am the prince of peace'-- at which time he proceded to hold his forefinger and middle finger up in what we now know today as the 'peace sign'--and one of the apostles, I think it was John the beloved, noticed that on a stone wall nearby, Jesus fingers were casting a shadow! It looked like a lil Bunny rabbit. Hence, we have the Easter Bunny.

You won't find this in the bible, this is recorded by one of the early fathers of the Church, but the point is, you HAVE to look for the deeper meaning, man.

Peace out.

 

[anawim]

First let me introduce myself.

I was born of a Jewish mother & a non practicing Catholic father.

I was primarily raised Catholic however I now attend a Baptist Church.
But I consider myself a Born again Christian in relationship with Christ.

I do believe that there are very fundamental similarities between the Catholic church & born again Chritians {The trinity, the Virgin birth,}

I have posted on different forums

My main agenda here is that as I read more of the Bible and look at how & why we celebrate easter is to ask the churches to move easter (Pasqua in Italy) to the right date.
Here is some quotes
Easter is the festival commemorating the resurrection of Christ, observed in the Christian churches today. By the first Christian, it was considered to continue the feast of the Passover, at which the paschal lamb, a symbol of Christ, was sacrificed. Hence, its name in Greek, French,and other Roman languages is taken from Hebrew "Pesach" = Passover. The English name comes from the Anglo-Saxon "Eastre" - a goddess of light or spring, whose festival was celebrated in April. (http://www.entourages.com/barbs/easterfacts.htm)

Scholars, accepting the derivation proposed by the 8th-century English scholar St. Bede, believe the name Easter is thought to come from the Scandinavian "Ostra" and the Teutonic "Ostern" or "Eastre," both Goddesses of mythology signifying spring and fertility whose festival was celebrated on the day of the vernal equinox

Traditions associated with the festival survive in the Easter rabbit, a symbol of fertility, and in colored easter eggs, originally painted with bright colors to represent the sunlight of spring, and used in Easter-egg rolling contests or given as gifts (http://www.holidays.net/easter/story.htm)

Jesus (the Son)celebrated the Passover & God (the father)asked us to foreever celebrate it in Exodus. So why are we not following the teachings.

From a Papal perspective it would acknowledge our Jewish religious heritage and it would show the world that the God of Abrahm, Isaac & Jacob is the same as Jesus. It would show reconcilations on our part toward our Jewish religious ancestors.

So I ask you all to consider or study the true meaning of Passover & Easter.

Which one is the true Holy Day ordained by God & which one is
a Pagan celebration that has infiltrated the church

The fact is that there are only two languages in which the name has any pagan associations whatsoever -- English and German.

In English, of course, tha name is "Easter" and in German "Ostern." These are related in name to a pagan spring festival, whose name, if you check a dictionary, was derived from the prehistoric West Germanic word akin to the Old English term east, which means, simply enough, "east," the direction of the rising sun. It has nothing to do, contrary to what you will hear from some anti-Easter-ites, with the goddess Ishtar.

But in virtually every language except English and German, the name of Easter is derived from the Jewish word Pesach or "Passover." Thus in Greek the term for Easter is Pascha, in Latin the term is also Pascha. From there it passed into the Romance languages, and so in Spanish it is Pascua, in Italian it is Pasqua, in French it is Paques, and in Portugese it is Pascoa. It also passed into the non-Romance languages, such as the Germanic languages Dutch, where it is Pasen and Danish, where it is Paaske.

Thus only in the highly Protestant countries of Germany (where the Reformation started) and England (where the intense persecution and martyrdom of Catholics was the harshest), does the term "Easter" have any pagan associations at all. So perhaps in these two Protestant countries paganism was not sufficiently stamped out to use the Judeo-Christian term for the celebration of Christ's Resurrection that was used everywhere else in Europe.

 

[Miss Shelby]

well that was good anawim, but I like my explanation better.