why does god want us to hide Easter eggs???

Now, I have to admit this is creative. 12 eggs and 12 Apostles, but, what most people not realize there were 13 Apostles (Guess that the Bakers Dozen they talk of) and 14 if you count Judas, Figure that one out. Heee Heee ;-) We will have to change our Egg boxes now. I must agree with you, mainworry does get a little lengthy, but, I love him, he my brother, he would make a good Baptist Preacher. ;-p

Decorated eggs are much older than Easter, and both eggs and rabbits are age-old fertility symbols. The Passover Seder service uses a hard-cooked egg flavored with salt water as a symbol both of new life and the Temple service in Jerusalem. The Jewish tradition may have come from earlier Roman Spring feasts.

Easter egg origin stories abound — one has an emperor claiming that the Resurrection was as likely as eggs turning red (see Mary Magdalene); more prosaically the Easter egg tradition may have celebrated the end of the privations of Lent. In the West, eggs were seen as "meat", which would have been forbidden during Lent. Likewise, in Eastern Christianity, both meat and dairy were prohibited during the fast, and eggs were seen as "dairy" (a foodstuff that could be taken from an animal without shedding its blood). One would have been forced to hard boil the eggs that the chickens produced so as not to waste food, and for this reason the Spanish dish hornazo (traditionally eaten on and around Easter) contains hard-boiled eggs as a primary ingredient.

(its more so a tradition if anything)

no, Easter is a PAGAN HOLIDAY

Easter was never from God.

Twelve is the number for a dozen - its easier for people to use a dozen eggs because its a common number.

Twelve eggs has nothing to do with the twelve apostles

I think your looking into this much more than needs to be.

I think that Easter Sunday has become NOTHING to do with the resurrection of Jesus Christ 3 days after the Crucifixion.

If you celebrate Christ's Resurrection than at least that is a true celebration-There is nothing true about an Easter bunny running around dropping colored eggs for kids with candy inside them...

thank you,

Thank you,

There are worldly things and Godly/Holy things and when it comes to certain holidays. Easter eggs are a man made carnal tradition, I really don't think it has anything to do with Christ's resurrection.

Some one decided that all holidays to make money and have some carnality to them. In other words they came up with Easter bunnies, eggs and etc. for those who are not Christians and got a lot of people to spend loads of money on baskets and stuff.

I am a Christian and I really don't think that it hurts to buy the eggs only if you know the real reason for Easter/Resurrection Sunday.

Easter, Eostre, is a pagan holiday in regard to the coming of spring. Legend has it that the Goddess Eostre (I'm not sure of exact spelling) saved a bird that was dying by turning it into a rabbit, but the used to be bird, now rabbit, laid colored eggs. Finding a colored egg was a great blessing and became a fun game too. The Christians "merged" their holiday of Jesus coming back from the dead with the pagan's celebration of Eoster to help "convert" pagans and make Christian rituals feel more comfortable for them.

Coloring Easter eggs and hiding them has nothing to do with the resurrection of Jesus. It is a just a cute tradition, make up to help kids look forward to a day that they might otherwise not appreciate. And, like a lot of other holidays in America, it has spirled out of control, and now involves toys and candy.

Actually it has to do with Jesus. Easter was the day Jesus came back from the dead. And we hide eggs because in spring its like a season of life. And eggs have life....Then everyone changed the reason of Easter to make more money

The true meaning of Easter is to celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ. But just as Christmas is, Easter has became commercialized and trivialized. It has nothing to do with eggs.

WEll, it's another non-Christian alternative.

Christmas was the birth of Christ. NonChristians

decided to celebrate Santa Claus. Easter was

the resurrection of Christ from the Grave. Non-

christians thought up Easter bunnies and hiding

eggs. It's a shame to turn these wonderful two

Holidays into stupid celebrations.

God has nothinto do with easter eggs. This practice of makin easter eggs were from the pagans and later adapted by the christians.