Posted on 04/05/2015 6:23:52 AM PDT by Texas Eagle
Babel was the origin of an idolatrous system that swept the world. The Bible says of her, “Babylon… the nations drank her wine; Therefore the nations are deranged” (Jeremiah 51:7). idolatry originated in the area of Babylonia—the most ancient of religious systems.”[8]
Basically, almost every vile, profane and idolatrous practice you can think of originated at Babel with Queen Easter/Ishtar (Semiramis), the Mother Goddess and Nimrod. As the people scattered from Babel with their different languages, they, of course, used different names for Nimrod (Tammuz) and Semiramis. Some called the Mother Goddess “ISHTAR” (originally pronounced “Easter”).[9] In other lands, she was called Eostre, Astarte, Ostera, and Eastre. Other names for Semiramis, the Mother Goddess include: Wife of Baal, Ashtaroth or Ashtoreth, and Queen of Heaven.[10] The Mother goddess was frequently worshipped as the goddess of fertility—and as a sort of Mother Nature and goddess of Spring and sexual love and birth. She was also worshipped as a mediator between god and man. Sexual orgies and temple prostitutes were often used in her worship and in attempting to gain her favor.
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Yes. But not to bring attention to anything Jesus did for us.
Happy Resurrection Sunday!
Egg laying bunnies are for children.
These sweet customs make them happy. They do not worship them. They enjoy and eat them.
When they are happy the world is a more joyful place for their families and everyone, as they should be on this day of celebrating the resurrection
Happy Easter.
Now, I am going to go snitch a chocolate bunny from my kid’s Easter basket- and some Peeps too
excellent!
LOL! Happy Sunday to all you sun worshippers!
Give them time FRiend. Give them time.... Enjoy Palm Sunday.
:)! He is Risen! JMJ
“Now, I am going to go snitch a chocolate bunny from my kid’s Easter basket- and some Peeps too.”
Compounding idol worship with thievery??!!
How dare you.
Freegards
I agree with Charles Spurgeon who said:
"There is no ordinance in Scripture of any one Lord’s-day in the year being set apart to commemorate the rising of Christ from the dead, for this reason, that every Lord’s-day is the memorial of our Lord’s resurrection. Wake up any Lord’s-day you please, whether in the depth of winter, or in the warmth of summer, and you may sing:
“To day he rose and left the dead, And Satan’s empire fell; To day the saints his triumph spread, And all his wonders tell.”
"To set apart an Easter Sunday for special memory of the resurrection is a human device, for which there is no Scriptural command, but to make every Lord’s-day an Easter Sunday is due to him who rose early on the first day of the week.
–C. H. Spurgeon, MTP #1530
The Lord is a jealous God. Before entering the land, He warned His people not to mix pagan religious practices they would encounter with true worship. He warned them against doing what was right in their own eyes. He said, "What thing soever I command you, observe to do it: thou shalt not add thereto, nor diminish from it." (Deuteronomy 12:32)
"Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ." (Colossians 2:8)
All that said, I celebrated Easter most of my life. My understanding has changed in recent years. I know that I am in the minority. It's likely that few have ever given it much of a thought and even fewer have undertaken a study of manmade holy days. Therefore, even though I am persuaded to reject Easter, I believe in Christian liberty and offer no condemnation of those who recognize Easter.
"One man esteemeth one day above another: another esteemeth every day alike. Let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind. He that regardeth the day, regardeth it unto the Lord; and he that regardeth not the day, to the Lord he doth not regard it. He that eateth, eateth to the Lord, for he giveth God thanks; and he that eateth not, to the Lord he eateth not, and giveth God thanks." (Romans 14:5-6)
I was simply pointing out that if we are going to make an issue of people saying Happy Holidays instead of Merry Christmas on the grounds that it takes Christ out of the equation, we ought to at least acknowledge that the word "easter" has absolutely nothing to so with the resurrection of Christ.
It's just a direction on a compass, or a reference to chronological event that coincides with a climate shift or a Babylonian sex goddess.
Happy Resurrection Day is simply more Christ-honoring. That's all.
Sheesh.
Your argument is a type of Genetic Fallacy because you assume that the etymological origins of a word determine its current meaning and usage. This is a mistake.
I hope this will be useful for you:
http://www.fallacyfiles.org/etymolog.html
Virtually all words have their origin in the pre-Christian past, since Christianity has only been around for 2,000 years --- a blink of the eye, as far as language goes ---- while the Indo-European roots go back many more millennia, and are entwined with pre-Christian belief systems.
You would have to invent your own language to get rid of this.
Fortunately, it doesn't make any difference. This is because words acquire new meanings, and it's the current meaning that matters.
The point Mrs. Don-o was making, I believe, is that the names of the days of the week also are of “pagan origin”.
Obviously no one (except for a few extreme purists here actually) believes that calling the fifth day of the week “Thursday” is a sin, even though it’s origin is “Thor’s Day”, another Germanic god.
Why doesn’t anyone object to that? Because everyone (who has common sense) knows that it doesn’t matter where the word came from, what matters is how the word is used today. The word “Thursday” is used to denote the fifth day of the week, not to memorialize the god Thor.
Similarly for “Easter”. No one uses that word to memorialize “Eôstre”, the Germanic goddess, rather it’s to denote the day the Lord rose from the dead (chosen by traditional means by the way, it’s interesting how you celebrate it on the same day as the Catholic Church, different name notwithstanding).
It’s the same concept. The name “Thursday” is no more evil than the name “Easter”. Etymological origins are irrelevant in both cases.
If anyone is being a “moral relativist” it’s you, who chooses (apparently at random) when to use pagan names and when not. To be consistent in your rejection of all things pagan, you should also refuse to name the days of the week as is conventionally done, since they are also of pagan origin. In fact, if you don’t, you actually sin more (if you’re right about your point about the word “Easter”) because we use those names much more frequently throughout the year. Easter is only one day; Thursday occurs 52 times a year.
I secretly worship Peeps
There, I’m out of the closet
Maybe there are Hittite genes in my DNA
If you'll read my original post, you'll see that I was simply saying that if we are going to make an issue of people saying "Happy Holidays" instead of "Merry Christmas" on the grounds that it takes Christ out of the equation, we ought to at least acknowledge that the word "easter" has no relevance to what Christ did on the Cross for us.
Actually, now that I think about it, at least Happy Holidays denotes SOME reverence for Jesus's birth.
East has absolutely zero. It's just a point on a compass or the changing of a season or the name of Babylonian sex goddess.
That's all I was saying.
Sheesh. I didn't mean to start a mass guilt trip.
Not harassing anything. You’re just showing a spirit of fear and walking by sight.
Son rises on Easter.
You're welcome!
Thanks for posting this. You are absolutely correct.
Category mistake. This is not a moral issue.
Perhaps I should try speaking in a Germanic dialect.
As I pointed out, we don't use the names of the days of the week to celebrate an activity that Christ engaged in on our behalf.
If you'll re-read my original post, I was simply pointing out that if we are going make a fuss over people who say "Happy Holidays" instead of "Merry Christmas" on the grounds that it takes Christ out of the equation, we ought to at least acknowledge that the word "easter" has no relevance to Jesus's resurrection.
It's just another day of the week or a point on a compass or changing of the seasons or a Babylonian sex goddess.
I know a lady who says "Happy whatever-day-of-the-week it is" whenever we see each other.
It's annoying but I don't think she says it to pay tribute to a Roman or Germanic god or goddess. It's, as you and Mrs. Don-0 say, simply a reference to a specific day of the week.
What Christ did on this day ought to be honored for WHAT it was, now WHEN it was.
That's all I'm saying. Didn't mean to start a mass guilt trip.
Yyyyyyyyeahhhhhh. Okay. Sure that means something to you. And that's good enough for me.
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