So, I am not from a western background. And I have some things to clear about the relevance of easter bunny and easter eggs with Easter. For me, Easter is just the Resurrection of Lord Jesus. My non believing friends often ask me about it and I can’t answer. Often they make claims about Easter being a pagan festival. I don’t know why and how they come up with this and don’t have enough knowledge to answer either. Can you please give some analysis about the topic? Please make sure what you’re saying is factual indeed.
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The easter bunny and eggs are a western cultural thing and have only in peoples minds. That is why there Jason much opposition in some Christian quarter that Easter is pagan is celerbrated by the culture and they would be right. It turns many Christians of because its so off base of the real meaning. Christmas is even worse.
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It may have been. However historically the facts are accurate. They have to consider the Hebrew holidays
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Easter bunny and eggs are pagan fertility practice from Babylonian mystery religions.
I am of the opinion that they are not to be mixed with biblical holidays.
Weeping for tamuz was part of this and also strictly forbidden. -
Their point is the Pagans owned the day before Jesus. Remind them that God Almighty owned the day before the pagans stakes false claim to it. This alleviates the entire argument in every aspect.
The finer points are open to discussion, I can close them with ease. -
The problems is with Anglo-Saxon speaking Countries,
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read Matthew 1.. Luke 1.. smiles
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The word Easter telates to the goddes Ishtsr a goddess of fertility therefore the rabbit
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Relates. Ishtar
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A lot of what you hear about the goddess “Eostre” is a reconstruction. There is no real solid connection to the goddess Ishtar. Ishtar is an ancient (at least as early as 4,000 B.C.) Mesopotamian goddess, and is fairly distantly removed from the worship of the Saxons in the 7th century.
The only connection between the old Saxon goddess and our modern observance of Easter comes from a passage from the writings of the Venerable Bede, an English Benedictine monk. In his De Temporum Ratione (AD 725) he writes the following regarding the names of the months:
“Eosturmonath (Easter month) has a name which is now translated “Paschal month”, and which was once called after a goddess of theirs named Eostre, in whose honour feasts were celebrated in that month. Now they designate that Paschal season by her name, calling the joys of the new rite by the time-honoured name of the old observance.”
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