Easter backtracks to "Ishtar', and was supposedly a fertility festival that fell around the time of Christ's resurrection; the story goes that the Catholic Church used it to explain rebirth to the pagans. It's popular symbology uses rabbits and eggs, both fertility symbols, and I believe it is hip-deep in candy as well.
1) The obvious question would be, do you "celebrate" Easter?
2) If not, do children in your family tradition miss out on candy then as well? Sorry if I end up with mulitple posts...something funky going on with our server.
No, we don't. That's what Passover is for.
2) If not, do children in your family tradition miss out on candy then as well? Sorry if I end up with mulitple posts...something funky going on with our server.
No, they don't miss out because we celebrate God's holidays in the Bible, children in my congregation actually have MORE holy-day celebration than children in traditional Christian families.
Every passover, I made Moroccan style Charoset. Last passover, someone brought chocolate dipped matzah. LOL!
Purim, we have hamantashen.
During Pentecost, we have might have cheese cake and other sweets.
During Sukkot, which is probably our biggest celebration of the year (besides passover), we celebrate Yeshua's birth (based in part on John 1) and have a "wedding" at the end.
Of course, Hannukkah brings chocolate!
For more information on how you can celebrate God's true holidays, go here or here. I also have links on my FR page to some other Messianic groups who know that Yeshua is the Messiah and celebrate the same holy-days Yeshua celebrated.
I know it's tough to give up Christmas, Easter, Halloween, Valentine's Day, etc. I've been there! But the problem for many Christians who feel convicted about the pagan origins of the holidays they have been celebrating is what to replace them with? What can fill the emptiness? If you replace the paganized holidays with God's holy-days, the emptiness is gone and you have an opportunity every year to teach your children about Yeshua all year long.