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What is Easter?

Over 3,500 hundred years ago GOD instructed the Hebrew people to keep HIS Passover Feast. This will be celebrated on Nissan 14 or April 25 and HE was resurrected 3 days later on Nissan 17, April 28 this year.

Millions of people will celebrate Easter on March 27.

Just what are they really celebrating and just what is Easter?

Our Savior was resurrected on April 28 this year, almost a month later!

GOD Bless!

Update:

Your Bible makes it clear that our Savior's empty tomb was discovered on GOD's "first work day of the week"!

Luke 23:56 24:1 The Bible never states that HE rose on Sun day morning or the first day of the week!

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  • ?
    Lv 7
    5 years ago

    Easter is set by the first full moon after the vernal equinox. This is the one day in the year when day and night are roughly equal!

    It varies by more than a month over the years and so it simply cannot represent the date of anyone's death!!!

    It is in fact a combination of several pagan festivals most notably the spring festival.

    The name Easter comes from “Eastre” an Anglo-Saxon pagan goddess. Also the Norse goddess,Ostara who took her name from the Teutonic lunar goddess Eostre

    Even the Chinese have the festival of Ching Ming where flowers and sweets are put on their ancestors graves!!

    The egg and the rabbit are symbols of springtime and rebirth along with the custom of giving flowers etc!!

    The Venerable Bede, an early Christian writer pointed out that the Christian church absorbed Pagan practices when it found the population unwilling to give up the festivals. Thus a lot of what Christians now see as Christians practices are in fact pagan!!!

    Fun to watch the Christians worshiping a pagan festival though - makes it just like Christmas when they do the same thing!!!

  • 5 years ago

    You are talking crap. The problem is the existence of Lunar and Solar calendars. Also the Orthodox Church has a different Easter. It doesn't actually matter when you celebrate it.

  • Easter has to fall on a Sunday because Jesus rose on a Sunday, that's why the date changes. No such thing as "Easter Tuesday" my friend. Sunday is the Lord's Day. You are thinking in human calendars, not on God's calendar

  • Anonymous
    5 years ago

    I'll give you a clue, find out where the word Easter comes from.

    Want another clue? It has nothing to do with your religion.

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  • Corey
    Lv 7
    5 years ago

    Evening Friday to early morning Sunday isn't 3 days later.

    The "first passover" is a myth anyways, and the calendar wasn't Gregorian. When you celebrate your demigod not being dead for real is largely arbitrary. If your demigod existed, do you think it would really care which day you celebrated on?

  • ?
    Lv 7
    5 years ago

    Easter is the Christian celebration of the resurrection of Christ.

    It is not the Jewish celebration of Passover that God commanded the Jewish people to observe.

  • Kjw47
    Lv 6
    5 years ago

    They are celebrating Jesus' resurrection. When Jesus clearly said to remember his death( do this in remembrance of me)-- The only thing Jesus asked us to remember--not his birth or resurrection did he ask to be remembered--yet they do both instead of what Jesus asked for. the dogma of men--misleads away from God.

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