Easter Celebration, Is It Biblical?

[FlyingDove]

Easter Celebration, Is It Biblical?

I am confused by some of post in this thread. Questioning people that celebrate the most significant day in human history.

Personally I believe it's biblical to celebrate Jesus resurrection any day/everyday.

Without Jesus resurrection we're all toast. I hope a hallelujah, thank you Jesus, won't offend to many here. Amen

 

[posthuman]

You know what amazes me about this.
We take an occasion, to go to church a little longer, focus in on one of the miraculous aspects of the incarnation of Jesus be it his birth from a virgin or his resurrection, and we eat and fellowship together, we sing songs about the actual historical event that is of Jesus, we read more passages from the bible, we have our children do re-inactments of the event so they learn about it through hands on, we have some fun and enjoy fellowship of the brethren and our families. And some ninny nanny comes along and accuses us of pagan worship. This absurdity is beyond fathomability ( I know I just invented a word so what I guess that's pagan too).
I have never been to a church where any fertility rites or discussion of fertility gods, any orgies, or any of this nonsense has gone on. There has only been a celebratory focus on Jesus. Yet here we are accused of paganism. I think it's the work of Satan to discourage people from celebrating the Lord Jesus, be it his birth, or ministry, or fasting in the wilderness, or his resurrection. I see Jesus is God who condescended to be a human with human pain and anguish and suffering in human conditions, living with us teaching people who hated him, offering grace everywhere he went, that He God came to serve sinful man, and die a cursed death so that death can be defeated, and we can have everlasting life. This is a celebration worthy thing. If you can't find reason to celebrate Jesus... I don't know there are no words for such a miserable condition.

I'm not accusing anyone of paganism - - I just want to point out that it's Passover & Firstfruits, not 'Easter'

'Easter' is a made up word.

 

[Truth7t7]

So going to church early, eating breakfast together, read the prophecies about Jesus from the OT and the psalms, and then the Gospel account of the resurrection, singing hymns about Jesus and his resurrection, and proclaiming Jesus is risen, and taking the Lord's supper is pagan? Well alrighty then.

I always wondered as a kid, why all the chocolate bunnies and easter eggs, on a church day called easter?

Church holds Easter egg hunt with social distancing guidelines
BECKY VARGO, Grand Haven Tribune, Mich.
Mon, April 5, 2021, 6:16 PM·1 min read
Apr. 5—GRAND HAVEN TWP. — A couple hundred children spread over two groupings gathered up eggs holding candy and trinkets during the annual Hope Community Easter Egg Hunt on Saturday morning.
More than 8,000 eggs filled with 35,000 pieces of candy and trinkets were hidden around the grounds at Hope Church, 14932 Mercury Drive in Grand Haven Township, according to the church's children's ministry director, Tricia Taylor.
Hope Church has been hosting an Easter egg hunt for 60 years, with the exception of 2020 when all activities were shut down due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

 

[posthuman]

Third post and still no provision of scripture, showing a directive to follow remembrance of the resurrection.

I surely dont see any word (IMPLIED) being interpreted as a directive

Waiting?

1 Corinthians 5:7-8
Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us: Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened [bread] of sincerity and truth.

 

[Truth7t7]

Easter Celebration, Is It Biblical?

I am confused by some of post in this thread. Questioning people that celebrate the most significant day in human history.

Personally I believe it's biblical to celebrate Jesus resurrection any day/everyday.

Without Jesus resurrection we're all toast. I hope a hallelujah, thank you Jesus, won't offend to many here. Amen

You can personally do whatever you desire, but instruction to remember the Lords resurrection isnt biblically instructed

 

[John146]

No, mate. They followed the anti-semitic example of Tyndale and Luther and what had become tradition in Germania and surrounding regions, to replace the actual word 'Pascha' with a Teutonic word for the dawn. Jerusalem was full of people keeping the feast of Passover in Acts 12. The word Eostare didn't even exist then.

For those who believed the feast had become much more meaningful, recognizing that Christ is our Pascal Lamb and that He rose as the Firstfruits of the dead. But it was still Passover. It wasn't dawn-goddess-fertility day.
It was a thousand years later when the traditions of men changed the word.

KJV translators were not morons but they are not God. God chose His 7 feast days and God chose to die and to rise on two of them.

1 Corinthians 5:7-8
Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us: Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened [bread] of sincerity and truth.

Christ our passover = Easter

 

[John146]

1 Corinthians 5:7-8
Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us: Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened [bread] of sincerity and truth.

I'll give more proof when I can.

 

[Truth7t7]

1 Corinthians 5:7-8
Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us: Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened [bread] of sincerity and truth.

Says nothing about remembering the Lords resurrection, good try

 

[Truth7t7]

Christ our passover = Easter

No Christ the passover doesn't mean follow the Vernal equinox, Full Moon, and the Sunday that follows is a biblically instructed day for celebration, bringing eggs, candy, and bunnies into churches

 

[Dino246]

Do you HONESTLY believe that this CHRIST-HATING WORLD is celebrating the birth and resurrection of Jesus on Christmas (Christ Mass) and Easter?

If you do, then you're terribly mistaken.

"Christ Mass" has absolutely nothing to do with the birth of Jesus. It is a totally pagan holy day/holiday.

Similarly, "Easter" has absolutely nothing to do with the resurrection of Jesus. It is a totally pagan holy day/holiday that has to do with a fertility goddess, hence eggs and bunnies.

1 Corinthians 5:13.

 

[posthuman]

Christ our passover = Easter

Made up human-tradition word.

Pascha = Passover.
Passover = Passover

 

[Blackpowderduelist]

I always wondered as a kid, why all the chocolate bunnies and easter eggs, on a church day called easter?

Church holds Easter egg hunt with social distancing guidelines
BECKY VARGO, Grand Haven Tribune, Mich.
Mon, April 5, 2021, 6:16 PM·1 min read
Apr. 5—GRAND HAVEN TWP. — A couple hundred children spread over two groupings gathered up eggs holding candy and trinkets during the annual Hope Community Easter Egg Hunt on Saturday morning.
More than 8,000 eggs filled with 35,000 pieces of candy and trinkets were hidden around the grounds at Hope Church, 14932 Mercury Drive in Grand Haven Township, according to the church's children's ministry director, Tricia Taylor.
Hope Church has been hosting an Easter egg hunt for 60 years, with the exception of 2020 when all activities were shut down due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

We don't have egg hunts

 

[posthuman]

Says nothing about remembering the Lords resurrection, good try

Passover, unleavened bread - these are all references to "the feast" Paul is saying 'let's keep'
And it is the feast days God chose and ordained to die and rise again. Paul certainly isn't telling us to observe Judaism so why is he saying 'keep the feast'?
Because Paul knows the real revealed meaning of these is the death burial and resurrection of Christ.


I know it takes some thought to understand it answers your OP but this is the closest you're going to get.

 

[Truth7t7]

You know what amazes me about this.
We take an occasion, to go to church a little longer, focus in on one of the miraculous aspects of the incarnation of Jesus be it his birth from a virgin or his resurrection, and we eat and fellowship together, we sing songs about the actual historical event that is of Jesus, we read more passages from the bible, we have our children do re-inactments of the event so they learn about it through hands on, we have some fun and enjoy fellowship of the brethren and our families. And some ninny nanny comes along and accuses us of pagan worship. This absurdity is beyond fathomability ( I know I just invented a word so what I guess that's pagan too).
I have never been to a church where any fertility rites or discussion of fertility gods, any orgies, or any of this nonsense has gone on. There has only been a celebratory focus on Jesus. Yet here we are accused of paganism. I think it's the work of Satan to discourage people from celebrating the Lord Jesus, be it his birth, or ministry, or fasting in the wilderness, or his resurrection. I see Jesus is God who condescended to be a human with human pain and anguish and suffering in human conditions, living with us teaching people who hated him, offering grace everywhere he went, that He God came to serve sinful man, and die a cursed death so that death can be defeated, and we can have everlasting life. This is a celebration worthy thing. If you can't find reason to celebrate Jesus... I don't know there are no words for such a miserable condition.

Jesus Christ Gave A Directive To Remember His (Death) Not His Birth Or Resurrection.

1 Corinthians 11:23-26KJV
23 For I have received of the Lord that which also I delivered unto you, that the Lord Jesus the same night in which he was betrayed took bread:
24 And when he had given thanks, he brake it, and said, Take, eat: this is my body, which is broken for you: this do in remembrance of me.
25 After the same manner also he took the cup, when he had supped, saying, this cup is the new testament in my blood: this do ye, as oft as ye drink it, in remembrance of me.
26 For as often as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, ye do shew the Lord's death till he come.

 

[Truth7t7]

We don't have egg hunts

You act as if you have been singled out, it was posted to show how even the egg hunts are Covid compliant in humor

On the serious side, The Pagan Easterly was brought into the Church by Pagan Emperor Constantine, along with (Sun)day observance, this also being the law for all shops and businesses to be closed on this day, he used these tactics to unify his empire

Constantine donated the land, and built the first Cathedral that is now (Vatican City)

 

[Blackpowderduelist]

Jesus Christ Gave A Directive To Remember His (Death) Not His Birth Or Resurrection.

1 Corinthians 11:23-26KJV
23 For I have received of the Lord that which also I delivered unto you, that the Lord Jesus the same night in which he was betrayed took bread:
24 And when he had given thanks, he brake it, and said, Take, eat: this is my body, which is broken for you: this do in remembrance of me.
25 After the same manner also he took the cup, when he had supped, saying, this cup is the new testament in my blood: this do ye, as oft as ye drink it, in remembrance of me.
26 For as often as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, ye do shew the Lord's death till he come.

We do that every Sunday.
Now did he give a directive to not study and celebrate his resurrection, birth, baptism, or any other aspect of him and his life.

 

[Blackpowderduelist]

How curmudgeonly must one be to seek to stifle the celebration of Jesus.
Ya have to side with pagans to do so.

 

[Live4Him]

1 Corinthians 5:13.

I Corinthians chapter 5

[6] Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump?
[7] Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us:
[8] Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
[9] I wrote unto you in an epistle not to company with fornicators:
[10] Yet not altogether with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or with idolaters; for then must ye needs go out of the world.
[11] But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat.
[12] For what have I to do to judge them also that are without? do not ye judge them that are within?
[13] But them that are without God judgeth. Therefore put away from among yourselves that wicked person.

I'm assuming that you're referring to the part of that verse that I bold-faced or that you're saying that those outside of the church will be judged by God and not by us for their actions.

That's fine, but what about the preceding verses?

I mean, surely you can recognize that "Christ our PASSOVER is sacrificed for us" in that he became the fulfillment of the Passover lamb when he was crucified ON THE FEAST OF PASSOVER.

In other words, that was GOD'S ordained holy day/holiday which foreshadowed the same.

Similarly, Christ was raised from the dead on the Feast of Firstfruits, God's ordained holy day/holiday which foreshadowed the same, and, for this precise reason, Paul twice refers to Christ as "the firstfruits of them that slept" (I Cor. 15:20) or "the firstfruits" (I Cor. 15:23)

Why then should we forsake the actual dates that God has ordained in place of pagan holy days/holidays ordained of wicked men?

 

[Truth7t7]

Do you HONESTLY believe that this CHRIST-HATING WORLD is celebrating the birth and resurrection of Jesus on Christmas (Christ Mass) and Easter?

If you do, then you're terribly mistaken.

"Christ Mass" has absolutely nothing to do with the birth of Jesus. It is a totally pagan holy day/holiday.

Similarly, "Easter" has absolutely nothing to do with the resurrection of Jesus. It is a totally pagan holy day/holiday that has to do with a fertility goddess, hence eggs and bunnies.

Yes christmas is pagan, surrounding the winter solstice, rebirth of the sun, and the pagan festival of Bacchus, wine, women, and song (indulgence)

It was a time when monies were given to servants to relieve the masters, also seen today in the christmas bonus, turkey/ham giveaways

January 1st in New Years day is in commemorating the pagan roman diety (Janus) January, the god of new beginnings

It's amazing when one does a little study, surrounded by a pagan culture, many unaware.

 

[fredoheaven]

The “Easter” celebration for Christianity is well-founded in the Bible. The Jewish Pascha (Passover) covers from the O.T. to Christ Death and the resurrection of Christ is the beginning of the foundation of the so-called “Easter” for Christianity. Since Christ's resurrection, a new celebration has begun and the apostles may have reason to celebrate since their Saviour rose from the dead. Apostles had taught of commemorating through the practice of “Water Baptism” showing forth the death, burial, and resurrection and the “Lord’s Supper” picturing the death, burial, resurrection, and Christ coming in Acts 2 long before Acts 12. Easter though is a specific introduction on the resurrection of Christ which corresponds to the Jewish Passover. This justifies that it was really a new celebration for Christianity. Is Easter or Passover is originally meant here? The argument is over semantic. Simply put it, “Easter” is for believing Jews and Gentile, since this commemorates the resurrection of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ while “Passover” is for the Jews. Are we not going to a Jewish Festival of Passover? No, we cannot since that celebration is intended for the Jews indicating from the time of Moses and the Israelites were pass over because of the blood.