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To: zipper
back then they didn't keep Easter. They kept Passover.

And Christians in the east call their Easter, Pascha - from passover. The connection between the Jewish Passover and the Christian feast of Easter is real and liturgical.

There are many similarities, but they are not the same. Christians celebrate the resurrection of the Messiah; Jews do not. Neither are pagan.

131 posted on 04/06/2015 6:09:19 AM PDT by D-fendr (Deus non alligatur sacramentis sed nos alligamur.)
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To: D-fendr
The pagan festivities were integrated in, to bring in the pagans, to accommodate them.

The connection between the Jewish Passover and the Christian feast of Easter is real and liturgical.

Ishtar Sunday, with rabbits and eggs... I don't think so. Easter has nothing to do with Passover, look at history. I am not intending to offend you, but the truth is easy to find -- if you have the courage to face it.

More on the pagan roots of Easter:

http://torahlifeministries.org/portfolio-post/the-pagan-history-of-easter/

--- or this:

http://mystery-babylon.org/easter.html

136 posted on 04/06/2015 9:44:48 PM PDT by zipper (In their heart of hearts, all Democrats are communists)
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To: D-fendr
And Christians in the east call their Easter, Pascha - from passover. The connection between the Jewish Passover and the Christian feast of Easter is real and liturgical.

The Orthodox don't like the word Easter, that's true. They will tell you Easter the word is an Anglo-Saxon word for a pagan festival. There is a widely cited mistranslation of Acts 4:12 in (among others) the King James version. Hebrew Pesar/Greek Pascha/English Easter. Passover references "...how God "passed over" the Jewish homes and spared the first born Israelites from the fate that was in store for their Egyptian counterparts. While all the Egyptian first born were stricken at midnight of the fifteenth day of the month of Nissan of the year 2448, not one Jewish first born was harmed."

http://www.chabad.org/holidays/passover/pesach_cdo/aid/1772/jewish/Passover-or-Pass-over.htm

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Passover: The Story in a Nutshell

After many decades of slavery to the Egyptian pharaohs, during which time the Israelites were subjected to backbreaking labor and unbearable horrors, G‑d saw the people’s distress and sent Moses to Pharaoh with a message: “Send forth My people, so that they may serve Me.” But despite numerous warnings, Pharaoh refused to heed G-d’s command. G‑d then sent upon Egypt ten devastating plagues, afflicting them and destroying everything from their livestock to their crops.

At the stroke of midnight of 15 Nissan in the year 2448 from creation (1313 BCE), G‑d visited the last of the ten plagues on the Egyptians, killing all their firstborn. While doing so, G‑d spared the Children of Israel, “passing over” their homes—hence the name of the holiday. Pharaoh’s resistance was broken, and he virtually chased his former slaves out of the land. The Israelites left in such a hurry, in fact, that the bread they baked as provisions for the way did not have time to rise. Six hundred thousand adult males, plus many more women and children, left Egypt on that day, and began the trek to Mount Sinai and their birth as G‑d’s chosen people.

http://www.chabad.org/holidays/passover/pesach_cdo/aid/871715/jewish/What-Is-Passover.htm

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For Christians Easter is the celebration of Christ’s Resurrection.

Passover commemorates the emancipation of the Israelites from slavery in ancient Egypt.

A mistranslation does not establish equivalency.

140 posted on 04/06/2015 11:50:35 PM PDT by zipper (In their heart of hearts, all Democrats are communists)
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