Why is Easter so important?
Easter Is the time when Christians commemorate the death of Christ and celebrate his resurrection – his conquest of death. Christians believe that, through Christ’s resurrection, we too have the hope of resurrection to eternal life; that is why it is so important. The bible records that these events happened about the time of the Jewish Passover. In the early church, Christians would celebrate Easter either during the time of the Passover or on the Sunday after. The Jews use a lunar calendar – each month starts with a new moon – so a fixed date in a Jewish month moves around in the usual solar calendar as the date of the new moon changes. Hence you will see that Easter has nothing whatsoever to do with any pagan festivals. It commemorates events in the life of Christ based on the calendar that He used (or something close to it). Those who imagine it has something to do with an Anglo Saxon goddess (even though the Anglo Saxons weren’t introduced to Christianity until 500 years after Eas
I suspect it’s important to the pagans who celebrate the coming of Spring. Why on Earth Christians still hold on to the fallacy that Christ rose from the dead on a pagan holiday, I have no idea. Those who do would benefit from learning about Ishtar. Christ died at Passover and had nothing to do with Easter. They can continue to deny this truth all they want. Only thing is, I would bet $50 that they don’t even bother to learn the truth. If they did they would know where Easter REALLY came from and that CHRIST never celebrated it.
You are mixing that up with Resurrection Sunday. Easter is a pagan holiday which includes bunnies and the fertility goddess Ester. Resurrection Sunday celebrates Jesus’ resurrection from the tomb. It was needed so that we would be able to have an eternal life and one day also be resurrected to be with our Lord forever.
Easter is set by the first full moon after the vernal equinox. This is the one day in the year when day and night are roughly equal! It varies by more than a month over the years and so it simply cannot represent the date of anyone’s death!!! It is in fact a combination of several pagan festivals most notably the spring festival. The name Easter comes from “Eastre” an Anglo-Saxon pagan goddess. Also the Norse goddess,Ostara who took her name from the Teutonic lunar goddess Eostre Even the Chinese have the festival of Ching Ming where flowers and sweets are put on their ancestors graves!! The egg and the rabbit are symbols of springtime and rebirth along with the custom of giving flowers etc!! The Venerable Bede, an early Christian writer pointed out that the Christian church absorbed Pagan practices when it found the population unwilling to give up the festivals. Thus a lot of what Christians now see as Christians practices are in fact pagan!!! Fun to watch the Christians worshiping a
Well originally, it was a pagan fertility festival, celebrated at the Spring equinox. That’s why we decorate eggs and have the Easter bunny…bunnies and eggs are symbols of fertility! Then when the Romans started spreading Christianity, it was just easier, and kept the locals from revolting, by allowing them to keep their pagan traditions, and just changing the reason for the celebration. In this case, the death and Resurrection of Christ.
