What does the Easter Celebration mean to you?

It's a pagan celebration that means nothing to me.

I celebrate Resurrection Sunday. I focus on what God, in Jesus, did to save us from our sins and when I think of how my sins nailed him to that cross, I weep.

I don't do chocolate or paint hard-boiled eggs or go in for any of the commercial stuff that non-Christians do. In fact, I won't even be buying my grandchildren "Easter Eggs". But I do rejoice when I see all those beautiful daffodils which herald spring. That, of course, has nothing to do with the life, death and resurrection of our Saviour.

Roll on Resurrection Sunday!

Colored eggs

It is the same as Christmas and Santa Claus, except Easter associates eggs with rabbits. LOL!

Chocolate

Easter is the Roman Catholic blasphemy to replace the true message of the Bible, also adopted by the other churches of men so that they have their own religion in defiance of the revelation of God through His word, the Bible.

After discovering that what is of God, the devil imitates, I took at second look at what Easter really means. It's the same with Christmas - paganism has certainly got its parallels, as with Easter - but then Satan would do that, wouldn't he? He's out to confuse and to contaminate because he knows the truth about the arrival of the Son of God into our world, via the virgin Mary, and he knows the truth of the sacrificial death of Christ, followed on the 3rd day by His glorious resurrection from the dead. That is why we have the ungodly pursuing the pagan aspects of those events, with no grasp (let alone appreciation of) the spiritual realities they uphold.

I speak of revelries, stuffing yourself with food or chocolate, getting drunk, having parties, telling coarse jokes and such-like things. Any old excuse for a knees-up, think the ungodly. So let's just leave them to it. The difference between how they 'celebrate' and how Christians celebrate is markedly different. Christians meditate on the events leading up to Jesus being tortured to death - the fearful darkness that descended from noon till 3pm, the temple tapestry being rent from top to bottom at the moment of Jesus' death, the way His burial fulfilled prophecies about being numbered with the wicked but assigned a grave with the rich then - oh, then! - His glorious resurrection. THAT is what the celebration is all about!

The joy of knowing death could not hold our Savior (for the grave can only claim sinners), that this proved Him to be the Son of God (Romans 1:1-6)… all of that fills our hearts with joy as we gather together to worship God and the risen Christ at that time of the year. That means everything to me, for had Jesus not been resurrected, there would be no salvation for sinners, and no Christianity.

Chocolate bunnies ...

True Christians do not celebrate pagan celebrations.

No thanks, I don't need to speak to a pastor or minister. I havr a mind of my own and can read history for myself.

But if YOU need to be told what to think, great.