Any Christian in any church who observes Easter is acknowledging and obeying the authority of the Roman Emperor Constantine to establish an observance that is NOT in the Bible.
But that doesn’t stop people from thinking it is in the Bible and that they must observe it today.
If Obama moved Xmas to Kwanzaa and imposed the death penalty for still observing Xmas would you start observing Kwanzaa?
Shhh...
Protestants don’t want to know they set their work and worship ( so do Jews, Muslims, secular humanists, atheists, etc) with Roman calendars named either after Julius Caesar or Pope Gregory..
Almost like the fact that Daniel predicted something out of the 4th Kingdom. (1. Babylon, 2. Medes/Persia, 3. Greece, 4! ROME)
Would think to change TIMES and laws..
If I didn’t study His Creation and calendar He placed in His sky, confirmed in His Word, I would call today Thor’s day like all the Roman slaves..
Praise God , I know today is His 4th work day, a day He made those signs in the heavens for signs and appointed times and days and years so we would could count and not rely on Babylon to tell us what day it is..
Imagine the shock if people saw Jews observed passover a day earlier (13th day) then they did last year because it would have conflicted with their pope appointed sabbath day..
The folks who observed a Monday Resurrection this year were right on the money..
And in 2014, they were off because ‘easter Sunday’ would have been a Wednesday with the Jews Passover on a Monday.
That is if one accepts the death, burial and resurrection third day gospel that Paul taught with Passover, unleavened bread and first fruits..
That is completely different than good Friday, holy satuns day and Easter Suns day..
But Catholics and Protestants share the same Roman gospel story that is according to the catholic catechism and not according to scripture..
What a punch in the gut it was for this protestant to have that revealed.. kind of like my faith was in Rome, not His Word..
Ouch!
Sorry, but the observation of Easter is much older than you seem to suggest and you have flipped the roles of those who affected how we celebrate it. At the First Council of Nicaea the fathers discussed the feast and disagreements regarding its dating clearly demonstrating it was already ancient at that time. Constantine had nothing to do with it, the Church did.
“Any Christian in any church who observes Easter is acknowledging and obeying the authority of the Roman Emperor Constantine to establish an observance that is NOT in the Bible.”
Not even a little. Nobody has the exact date. People are observing the deeper meaning of what happened. NOt paying homage to whoever chose what date each year we use to remember it.