Aaron starts below…

Jesus’ resurrection should not be confused with the Pagan holiday that is called Easter like it has been.  

It is already known and evident that the Catholic Church has taken many things from Paganism and incorporated them into its worship.  Like Christmas and many other things, Easter is the product of the Catholic Church incorporating Pagan concepts into its worship and putting a Christian label on them.  Other churches have copied the Catholic Church. 

Think about it.  What does the Easter Bunny and colored eggs have to do with anything which God prescribed in the Bible?  Nothing.  Who has used bunnies and eggs as part of their Spring fertility rituals?  Pagans.  

Though the Easter apologists want you to think that Easter is really Christian and will ramble to explain away the obvious, this is really all anyone needs to know.  

The Pagan fertility symbols representing Easter now make it evident that Easter is a Pagan holiday.  Just like the obvious fact that Christmas being a Pagan holiday can be known by the obvious truth that Christmas is a Pagan holiday now, the same can be said of Easter.  

Though the King James Version of the Bible uses the word “Easter” in Acts 12:4, the word in the original Greek text there is “Pascha.”  The King James translators correctly translated this word as “Passover” every other time it came up in the Greek text in the New Testament (28 other times).  Why did the King James translators not use the term “Passover” in Acts 12:4 as well?  The very context of the passage is Herod waiting until after Passover (which is also referenced in the previous verse- Acts 12:3- called the days of unleavened bread there) to have Peter brought forth to be executed in order to please the Jews (and of course the chapter shows how the Lord intervened and worked to prevent that from happening).  The KJV translators obviously should have put “Passover” instead of “Easter” in Acts 12:4.  They were influenced by the corrupt Easter tradition which they themselves had inherited through the corrupt influence of the Catholic Church- which was by no means out of the Church of England (whom all the KJV translators were members of).  Though the King James Version is a wonderful translation, and in my opinion the best known of until this day, the translators were obviously not infallible.  We still need to check them and consult the Greek text. 

And as with Christmas, asserting that Easter is a Christian holiday, and celebrating it along with society is an implicit statement that the masses are partakers of God’s grace without wholehearted repentance and turning to Christ in utter death to sin and self.  That is surely as severe a lie as can be told.  The celebration of these holidays presents Jesus Christ as common, marketable, and accessible to heathens right as they continue in heathen ways.  

As with Christmas, the proper boundaries of Christianity would be so much clearer if society just celebrated Easter as a blatantly Pagan holiday with no Christian association whatsoever.

If for no other reason at all, one who really wants to honor the Lord should not celebrate Easter due to how the Easter Bunny is inherently a prominent figure, if not the central figure, in Easter celebrations.  

Isaiah 42:8 says: “I am the Lord: that is my name: and my glory will I not give to another, neither my praise to graven images.”

One who loves and worships the real Jesus Christ shouldn’t want Him associated with Easter nor be grieved about letting those who are openly heathens have the Easter Bunny all to themselves. 

And as with celebrating Christmas, celebrating Easter doesn’t prove one iota that one is a true disciple of Jesus Christ.  On the other hand, many who clearly disregard what the Bible does say (not just on this matter but on many other matters as well) treat Easter as sacred and are zealous to defend it like they ought to be zealous to actually keep God’s Word.

Easter and bunnies being the symbols of Christ’s resurrection?  Really?  You didn’t get that from the Bible.  Common sense says that must be Pagan influence.

God definitely said in the Bible not to incorporate Paganism into His worship- and He even warned not to add nor subtract from what is written in Scripture in order to prevent such incorporation from happening.  

Deuteronomy 12:29-32 (note the principles): “When the Lord thy God shall cut off the nations from before thee, whither thou goest to possess them, and thou succeedest them, and dwellest in their land; Take heed to thyself that thou be not snared by following them, after that they be destroyed from before thee; and that thou enquire not after their gods, saying, How did these nations serve their gods?  even so will I do likewise.  Thou shalt not do so unto the Lord thy God: for every abomination to the Lord, which he hateth, have they done unto their gods; for even their sons and their daughters they have burnt in the fire to their gods. What thing soever I command you, observe to do it: thou shalt not add thereto, nor diminish from it.”

The Easter and Christmas defenders surely don’t heed this instruction.  

I’m not saying that it is wrong to celebrate Jesus’ resurrection the Sunday after Passover and call it “Resurrection Sunday” like some do in order to distinguish the celebration of Jesus’ resurrection from Easter and all the unbiblical traditions which are associated with that.  

However, God directly commanded something else for Christ’s church which is not a yearly celebration of Christ’s resurrection but rather a frequent reminder throughout the year of Christ’s resurrection (which also provides the context His resurrection should be seen in).

Acts 20:7 says: “And upon the first day of the week, when the disciples came together to break bread, Paul preached unto them, ready to depart on the morrow; and continued his speech until midnight.”

This passage shows that the disciples came together on the first day of the week to break bread.  What is the significance of that?

1 Corinthians 11:23-26: “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: And when he had given thanks, he broke it, and said, Take, eat: this is my body, which is broken for you: this do in remembrance of me.  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.  For as often as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, ye do shew the Lord’s death till he come.”

The bread is to be broken and the cup is to be drunk to symbolize Christ’s death until He comes again (this implies that He is risen).  No transubstantiation.  This is rather intended as a visual reminder of the immense cost of the redemption He purchased and of His goal of reaping a harvest from that sacrifice when He returns.  

1 Corinthians 11:27-29 then goes on to say: “Wherefore whosoever shall eat this bread, and drink this cup of the Lord, unworthily, shall be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord.  But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of that bread, and drink of that cup.  For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh damnation to himself, not discerning the Lord’s body.”

The agony and challenge demonstrated through what is remembered by the broken bread and the cup is also an implied challenge and demand to us.  We need to be in line with the goal of Christ’s redemption to be in His grace and on track to be prepared for His coming kingdom- or we face His condemnation (made worse yet if we partake of this remembrance unworthily).  

Hebrews 10:12-13: “But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God; From henceforth expecting till his enemies be made his footstool.”

Romans 6:10-11: “For in that he died, he died unto sin once: but in that he liveth, he liveth unto God.  Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.”

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