You wrote, “Easter (a pagan fertility holiday) was propagated by the Catholics instead of Passover.”
Jesus gave us a New Covenant, so Easter is the celebration of the Resurrection of the Lord, the triumph of Jesus over the grave. Surely you, as a Christian, know that. It is true that Easter practices with dyed egg, bunnies, etc. are borrowed from earlier spring festivals dating back to pagan times. But with the resurrection, we are called to a new ‘spring’ so to speak, and should not deny the significance of the day due to some pagan myths mixing into the day’s celebration.
Secondly, you admit that the Catholic church was the entity that began celebration of the Resurrection of the Lord - which takes us back to the time of the Apostles. Of course the first Christians celebrated Jesus’s Resurrection. We are into the New Covenant of God with His people. Jesus’s Last Supper, and His Crucifixion are not the end to his story, for His triumphal emergence from death to life on that Holy morning is celebrated now as a Christian holiday which Europeans called Easter (Ostertag in German) because it indicates the dawn of a new day when the sun rises in the east.
hey “Gumdrop”
kool handle you got there, and it’s giving me a sweet tooth now ... smiles.
I just wanted to share a couple of things with you in regards to that “easter”.
I’m not much on mixing the “New Wine of our Lord”, with the old wineskin of the world.
There’s a lot of good information out there about this “easter” that most or some Christians have come to celebrate, and bottom line is, that it has nothing to do with Christ Jesus whatsoever, no matter how much of a “holy spin” we try to place upon it.
There is a passage of scripture that might shed just a glimmer of light upon it, and has to do with some peeps who had their backs to the temple of the LORD, and they were worshiping the “sun” aka “east star”. There was even some women baking cakes to the “queen of heaven”, and some women were also weeping for “tammuz”.
Our Lord wasn’t very pleased about all this and if you do some digging around it all you will see the connection to “easter”. Also, I trust in the Holy Spirit to reveal the truth to you as you do this research.
I’m not here to bash what you believe “Gumdrop”, but if I let things just slide by, I will be held accountable for not speaking up when I should.
Here’s just one passage:
Ezekiel 8:16 And he brought me into the inner court of the LORD’S house, and, behold, at the door of the temple of the LORD, between the porch and the altar, [were] about five and twenty men, with their backs toward the temple of the LORD, and their faces toward the east; and they worshiped the sun toward the east.