Quotations from the Bible to do with the celebration of holidays such as Easter?
Question by Cool girl: Quotations from the Bible to do with the celebration of holidays such as Easter?
To help me argue for and against the statement:
‘Christians shoud not buy Easter eggs and Easter cards’.
Thanks!
Lorna
Best answer:
Answer by CB4UP
The pagan godess ester……………
Then it was introduced into Christianity to attract the pagans……..
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Easter celebrations were held hundreds of years before Christ was born as festivals of spring honoring Eostre, the great mother goddess of the Saxons. This name was fashioned after the ancient word for spring, Eastre. The goddess Ostara was the Norse equivalent whose symbols were the hare and the egg. From this comes our modern tradition of celebrating Easter with eggs and bunnies.
In the Mediterranean region, there was a pre-Christian spring celebration centered around the vernal equinox (March 20 or 21) that honored Cybele, the Phrygian goddess of fertility. Cybele’s consort, Attis, was considered born of a virgin and was believed to have died and been resurrected three days later. Attis derived his mythology from even earlier gods, Osiris, Dionysus, and Orpheus, who also were supposed to have been born of a virgin and suffered death and resurrection as long as 500 years before Christ was born. The death of Attis was commemorated on a Friday and the resurrection was celebrated three days later on Sunday.
There are other Easter traditions that are pagan in origin. The Easter sunrise service is derived from the ancient pagan practice of welcoming the sun on the morning of the spring equinox, marking the beginning of spring. What we now call Easter lilies were revered by the ancients as symbols of fertility and representative of the male genitalia. The ancient Babylonian religions had rituals involving dyed eggs as did the ancient Egyptians.
The Christian version of Easter is celebrated after the first full moon after the vernal equinox. Modern day neo-pagans usually have their spring celebrations on the day of the equinox. Either way, these celebrations have gone on every year continuously for over 2500 years. So, next Sunday, if you go to an Easter sunrise service, hunt for colored eggs or eat marshmallow bunnies, remember you are indulging in pagan rituals that celebrate fertility and the advent of springtime!
The Bible doesn’t endorse man made religion. Have you seen The Passion of the Christ? Watch it so you can see the price needed for us to go to Heaven then decide on your easter eggs and cards.
Easter Eggs & Easter cards are just commercialism…must like all the bruhah about Christmans…..wasnt even Christs birthday (he was most probably born some time in the Spring, based on the talk about specific stars in the sky and the Romans times for doing counts of the people for the purpose of taxation.)
No such thing (s) what you’re asking for. Yet Jesus never enjoined us from celebrating with others (think 1st miracle at Canaan Wedding). He also made sure we should separate what we worship and what we’re obligated to do (a stretch, I know), by saying “Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, etc.”.
As Christians we celebrate the Resurrection of our Lord at Easter time and our salvation. After Mass, I would say an Easter egg hunt is always fun!