Why would a Christian celebrate Easter and not Passover?

"Why would a Christian celebrate Easter and not Passover?"

Well, at the risk of being obvious, we do that because Christians celebrate Easter, not Passover. It's what we do.

You take one verse, mistranslated at that. and assume this trumps all practice? With all due respect, give us just a LITTLE credit, okay?

Do you know whether any of the disciples could write? Do you have any idea how many people actually remembered what precisely Jesus said, among so many other things, during the Last Supper (assuming such a meal happened -- it's not what happens in John, you know)

Do you know the year Jesus died? do you know the approximate year Luke was written? Do you have any concept of the difficulty of preserving words over that long a period of time?

And after all of this, are you still seriously suggesting that we pay such slavishly close attention to one alleged verse? You really think you have any basis to insist that it is actually close to what Jesus said?

You think I am being harsh? Well, you presume to impart to us the will of God, based on sloppy, shabby pseudo scholarship. That would not be so awful, except some young person may read your rubbish and think you are worth taking seriously, and that I personally find deeply offensive. Sorry, but I get upset when people make stuff up or they present half-baked tripe as if they thought it was accurate.

Thank you for your question.

Your premise has a major flaw. Jesus did not say to celebrate the Passover in memory of Him.

At the Last Supper which was a Passover Feast Jesus added something new. At the consecration of the bread and wine he introduced transubstantiation, where he changed the bread and wine into his body and blood, sharing himself with his apostles.

This established the Rite of Communion or what we as Catholics call the Eucharist. So when Jesus said "Do This" the "this" was to share him through communion.

So Catholics as well as other Christians celebrate this moment frequently. Catholics "do this" every day at every Mass celebration.

So your premise is completely fallacious.

Also Easter and Passover are not the same thing. They commemorate different events and on different days.

Peace

All the Christians I know solemnly remember Jesus' last meal on Earth (the Passover meal) which He followed with the First Supper for Christians - where they accepted His invitation to enter into the New Covenant. When Jesus died the next day, His shed blood sealed that New Covenant and so Christ became our Passover (Lamb).

All the Christians I know joyfully remember Jesus' resurrection from the grave on the third day. They know that it is His resurrection upon which Christianity is established, and that it proves Him to be the Son of God.

I know some people who claim to be Christians who only remember the supper event once a year, and they try to get it to fit in with the Jewish calendar for Passover, but they refuse to celebrate His resurrection.

I know other people who claim to be Christians who love to rejoice at the resurrection event but who seem to have no idea of the connection between Jesus' death and the ancient Jewish Passover significance.

Christians should know that Jesus has become our Passover, and combine solemn remembrance of His death (as the Lamb of God that takes away the sin of the world John 1:29) with joyful acclamation that the Lord is risen - He is risen indeed! Hallelujah!

The early Christians celebrated the first day of the week as the day Jesus rose from the dead. True enough, Jesus is the ultimate Passover Lamb, as Paul himself said, "Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us (1 Cor 5:7):"

You also cited Luke 22:19, which actually reads "And he took bread, and gave thanks, and brake it, and gave unto them, saying, 'This is my body which is given for you: this do in remembrance of me (King James Version).'" He was telling them to follow this new ordinance, replacing the Passover, as a memorial as to what He was going to do. Nowhere is the Gentile Christian commanded to keep the Passover, but we are told to observe the "Lord's Supper/Eucharist/Holy Communion", not just here but also in 1 Corinthians 11.

So in a word, the Passover was a Jewish feast, remembering the time God led them out of Egypt; Easter, or resurrection day, is a commemoration that JESUS IS ALIVE!

The entire Easter celebration is extra-biblical. "Good Friday," which is the supposed day that Christ died, is fictitious in that Christ could not have died on Friday. He was three days and three nights in the tomb (Mt. 12:40; 16:21; 17:22-23; 20:17-19; 27:62-64; Lk. 24:1-8; Jn. 2:19). He arose before daylight on Sunday morning at the end of the sabbath (Jn. 20:1; Mt. 28:1; Mk. 16:2). Thus he must have been crucified on Wednesday or Thursday. The Jewish day begins in the evening (Ge. 1:5,8,13,19,23).

Only out of sheer ignorance of Gods word. There is nothing Christian about Easter. it appears nowhere in scripture. It is a catholic concoction, like Christmas (Christ Mass)

99 of 100 "Christians" have no idea what "Easter" even means. She's a she - an OT pagan goddess of fertility (aka Ashtoreth, Astarte, Ishtar, Eostre) who is also worshiped as the OT "queen of heaven"

1Ki 11:33 Because that they have forsaken me, and have worshipped Ashtoreth the goddess of the Zidonians, Chemosh the god of the Moabites, and Milcom the god of the children of Ammon, and have not walked in my ways, to do that which is right in mine eyes, and to keep my statutes and my judgments, as did David his father.

Jer 7:18 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.

CHRISTIANS SHOULD BE ASHAMED!

They are like lemmings who do all the things their parents and other people do having no idea what it is they are doing. They'd rather cling to their myths than to know and practice the ways of God

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Easter is a ‘movable feast’ which is chosen to correspond with the first Sunday following the full moon after the March equinox, and occurs on different dates around the world since western churches use the Gregorian calendar, while eastern churches use the Julian calendar. So where did this ‘movable feast’ begin, and what are the origins of the traditions and customs celebrated on this important day around the world?

Most historians, including Biblical scholars, agree that Easter was originally a pagan festival. According to the New Unger’s Bible Dictionary says: “The word Easter is of Saxon origin, Eastra, the goddess of spring, in whose honour sacrifices were offered about Passover time each year. By the eighth century Anglo–Saxons had adopted the name to designate the celebration of Christ’s resurrection.” However, even among those who maintain that Easter has pagan roots, there is some disagreement over which pagan tradition the festival emerged from. Here we will explore some of those perspectives.

- See more at: http://www.ancient-origins.net/myths-legends/ancie...

You don't have enough holidays of your own, you have to co-opt the Jewish Passover? Typical Christian behavior

Because Christians believe that Jesus was the reincarnation of the Easter Bunny.

The passover is only for the Jews.

And miss out in all that chocolate, money and greed? Ha!