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Given that there is no Biblical reference to Easter in conjunction with the resurrection of Jesus, or any where else in the Bible, it, to me, is obvious it is connected to the celebration honoring the goddess Estarte, which was pronounced Easter. God cautioned strongly to not celebrate the days of the pagans. I choose to stay as far away from even appearing to go against God’s word in that regard.

I agree that the official holiday was probably a concession to help pagans to convert to Christianity...but what we call it is not all that important ..what is important is that we remember the crucification and that Christ died for us during the passover to fulfill OT prophecy. Jesus revealed the prophetic nature of the passover when He said now do this in memory of me..

We celebrate the resurrection as proof the Father accepted the sacrifice and that it was sufficient for the sin of man.. The proper historic time frame would be during the Jewish passover.

I think we need to remember that to the elect,the saved all things are clean and we are free to celebrate Christ at Easter.

Tts 1:15 Unto the pure all things [are] pure: but unto them that are defiled and unbelieving [is] nothing pure; but even their mind and conscience is defiled.

BTW so does Christmas fall on a pagan celebration!

But than the LDS knew that Jesus was born in the Spring but the purist Christians still celebrate in Dec.