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To: Amendment10
Aspects of today’s Easter celebration are undoubtedly the result of the secular commercializaton of Easter after many decades. It’s hard to guess how the non-biblical searh for colored eggs originated imo.

Easter is a replacement for the annual holy day of Passover which the Lord Jesus Christ created, kept, and told his followers to keep...

14 posted on 03/22/2013 11:11:41 AM PDT by DouglasKC
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To: DouglasKC

“Easter is a replacement for the annual holy day of Passover which the Lord Jesus Christ created, kept, and told his followers to keep...”

And it called “Pascha” - passover - in almost the entire world.

English is a late-comer.


25 posted on 03/22/2013 11:28:11 AM PDT by Hilda
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Easter is a replacement for the annual holy day of Passover which the Lord Jesus Christ created, kept, and told his followers to keep...

No. More directly, that would be Holy Thursday and Good Friday... when the meal is celebrated and the Lamb is sacrificed. Easter is new... no other Passover Lamb came back to life.

33 posted on 03/22/2013 11:38:05 AM PDT by pgyanke (Republicans get in trouble when not living up to their principles. Democrats... when they do.)
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