Posted on 04/10/2020 3:01:19 PM PDT by Kaslin
Isn’t funny, that how one set of myths become somebody else’s truths. Manuscripts written a 70-year generation after the purported events, with no other contemporary manuscripts to dove-tail, including a manuscript steadfast followers call delusions, more celebrated than a man named Gautama.
“For starters, the word for Easter in many languagesincluding Spanish (Pascua), French (Pâques), and Romanian (Pa?ti)is derived from the Hebrew word pesach, or Passover. Christians indeed borrowed many of their Easter traditions from another faith, but it was the monotheistic religion of Judaism, not paganism.”
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Christians would be doing the right thing if they focused a lot less on “Easter” and a lot more on Passover.
Like Jesus did.
I call it Resurrection Day.
.... Just curious as to where the name “Easter” came from. I was hoping he was going to explain it in this article.
.... Just curious as to where the name Easter came from. I was hoping he was going to explain it in this article.
.... i read somewhere that it derives from the name Isis or Ishtar.
Ronald Nash, cited in the article, was my professor at Western Kentucky before he went on to RTS.
........... The author states in the first paragraph that there is no actual evidence to back up that claim. All I know is that the name is not Biblical in origin.
People dont want truth. They resist it.
There have been many studious iron minded folks who set out to prove it was not. It has stood the test of time. Yes truth is inconvenient.
Falsity is not it lies to tell you what your itching ears want to hear.
The author states in the first paragraph that there is no actual evidence to back up that claim. All I know is that the name is not Biblical in origin.
...guess ill have to take her word on that. /sarc
the Hebrew word pesach, or Passover”
Let the Bible speak for itself. The author of Acts 12:4 wrote the Greek word “pascha” (Strongs 3957). Anyone can go over to Biblehub.com and see how many different translators translate this word:
https://biblehub.com/acts/12-4.htm
And if you want to see the Greek text, you can go to a Greek-English Interlinear like this one:
https://www.scripture4all.org/OnlineInterlinear/NTpdf/act12.pdf
And there, plain as day on page one of the PDF is “pasca”, a word that would sound far more like “Passover” than “Ishtar”.
Who are you going, to believe, the author or people coming centuries later telling you that the word doesn’t mean what it plainly means?
As Jesus said, the truth will set you free. And speaking of free, Jesus said that the only sign he was Messiah was that he would be three days and three nights in the grave. How do you get three days and three nights out of the conventional Easter narrative. Well, only by redefining the meaning of words, like we hear so much today.
Don’t be afraid of the truth. Just ask yourself, what if the truth is that Jesus was really in the grave three full days and three full nights, exactly and only as the Gospels authors said? Where does that truth lead you?
Who care where it came from originally, from who and what reason. We now use it to celebrate the resurrection of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.
It also does not matter on what day Jesus Christ was born. We celebrate His birth on December 25 of each year.
It is the remembrance and celebration that is important and irrespective of the date, or time, or who was there, or where He was housed.
Thumbs up to Resurrection Sunday.
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The resurrection of Our Savior is not derived from a pagan holiday, but a lot of Easter activities are.
In the painting showing in the article Mary is clutching the rabbit at our feet while somebody else is holding a young Infant Jesus. It looks like Mary might have been trying to protect the rabbit from that rascal which looks like he was asquirmin’ and tryin’ to see just what that critter was all about.
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