The True Meaning of Easter
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There are many holidays in preparation of Easter including Lent, Ash Wednesday, Palm Sunday and Good Friday. Ash Wednesday is the first day of Lent, which is also the first day of fasting. Lent lasts for 46 days but the fasting process only lasts for 40 days because the 6 Sundays leading up to Easter are not included in Lent.
Holy Week is the last week of Lent and begins with Palm Sunday, which is the Sunday before Easter. Palm Sunday is the day which Jesus arrived in Jerusalem where His supporters laid Palm fronds at his feet. Holy Thursday was the Last Supper that was held the night before crucifixion. The following day, Good Friday, is the day Jesus was crucified on the cross. Instead of us mourning this day we celebrate the fact that Jesus was willing to give His life for ours in order to give us eternal life and everlasting peace.
Easter Sunday marks the day Jesus Christ was resurrected. This is a joyous day for all and reminds us of His promise for eternal life and His love for us all.
Christian churches in the West celebrate Easter on the first Sunday after the full moon while churches in the East, which were closer to Jesus' birthplace, celebrate Easter according to the date of the Passover Festival.
There are many traditions that come with Easter which include sweets and baked goods, the boiling and dying of eggs, the Easter bunny, Easter candy and baskets. Many people also have a huge dinner to celebrate Easter every year.
The hard-boiled and colored eggs are a symbol of new life and the ancient Egyptians exchanged them with friends to remind everyone of the resurrection of Christ. Today many children have an Easter egg hunt each year.
Rabbits are a powerful symbol of fertility and new life so therefore a symbol of Easter. The Easter Bunny became a popular children's character just like Santa Claus but during the Pagan celebrations the Hare was the original symbol. Since the hare and rabbit look so much alike and it was hard to tell them apart at some point the hare was replaced by the rabbit.
Hot Cross Buns was another Easter tradition which used to be kept specifically for Good Friday with the symbolism of the cross. Over the centuries hot cross buns were made and eaten on Good Friday because people believed they had curative powers. People hung the buns from their kitchen ceilings because it was believed that the buns would keep evil out throughout the year. The hot cross buns and baked breads were used in powder form to treat illnesses.
This is what Easter truly is. It is not about Easter candy or Easter baskets or Easter egg hunts but there is no harm in children being allowed to do these things. It is our duty as Christian parents to tell our children the true meaning of Easter and the new life it brings.
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Post a CommentYou're an idiot. Easter has nothing to do with jesus or anything in relation to the Christian/Jewish faiths. It was a pagan holiday. That is, until the Catholics told the pagans that they could either worship "Jesus" on their holiday or be killed.
The popular observances that still attend the period of its celebration amply confirm the testimony of history as to its Babylonian character. The hot cross buns of Good Friday and the dyed eggs of Pasch or Easter Sunday, figured in the Chaldean rites just as they do nowâ€-(New York, 1943), pp. 103, 107, 108;
Jeremiah 7:18 says
The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead [their] dough, to make cakes to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto other gods, that they may provoke me to anger.
So towards the end of the 3rd century Constantine amalgamated Pagan & Christian beliefs, such as, the resurrection of Jesus Christ and the celebration of Easter/Ishtar and much more, basically to save his Empire which formed the new Apostate Christendom with their Pagan Holidays, such as, Christmas, New Year, Easter, Mothers day, etc etc etc.
"The Real Meaning of Easter"
The Encyclopaedia Britannica says, "There is no indication of the observance of the Easter festival in the New Testament, or in the writings of the Apostolic Fathers. The sanctity of special times was an idea absent from the minds of the first Christians"-(1910), Vol. VIII, p. 828.
The Catholic Encyclopaedia tells us: “A great many pagan customs, celebrating the return of Spring, gravitated to Easter. The egg is the emblem of the germinating life of early spring….The rabbit is a pagan symbol and has always been an emblem of fertility.â€-(1913), Vol. V, p. 227.
In the book The Two Babylon’s, by Alexander Hislop, we read: “What means the term Easter itself? It is not a Christian name. It bears its Chaldean origin on its very forehead. Easter is nothing else than Astarte, one of the titles of Beltis, the Queen of Heaven, whose name,... as found by Layard on the Assyrian monuments, is Ishtar… Such is the history of Easter
The writers of this article really need to do some serious research. Easter has nothing to do with Christ at all,but a revamping of pagan infant sacrifice ritual was performed. 3 month old babies conceived on the alter of Easter the year before were sacrificed on the same alters and eggs were died in their blood. No the son of God rising from the grave and Easter are worlds apart.
Easther is a pagan feast in honour of the Goddess of spring called Asherah or Ashtate
i didnt know easter was ......well.........its just weird and not nice it is death to crist
pastorsheryl says that 'The Meaning of Easter is the cruel death of christ, by hanging on a cross after bering beaten and tourtured
says that 'The Meaning of Easter is the cruel death of Christ, by hanging on a cross after bering beaten and tourtured. Then the hanging onthe cross until death. 3 days later he arose. Others saw him alive. I believe this with all of my heart..
pastorsheryl says that 'The Meaning of Easter is the cruel death of christ, by hanging on a cross after bering beaten and tourtured
Not everyone believes this idea of Easter. There are a few origins of Easter that have similar meanings and an all around idea.... so what IS the true meaning of Easter?