Easter: Pagan or Not? You Decide

 

I will just continue to touch on these different aspects of Easter that people celebrate. But then if you are interested on reading more about them, you can do so. The graphic today does offer a site where you can learn about the Spring Equinox if you choose to go there. What follows is just a small part of that.  Notice below what groups celebrate these holidays. 

And it is their right to do that.

But what about us?

Spring Equinox

Pagan roots of Easter lie in celebrating the spring equinox, for millennia an important holiday in many religions. Celebrating the beginning of spring may be among the oldest holidays in human culture. Occurring every year on March 20, 21, or 22, the spring equinox is the end of winter and beginning of spring. Biologically and culturally, it represents for northern climates the end of a “dead” season and the rebirth of life, as well as the importance of fertility and reproduction.

Ostara, Eostre, and Easter

Currently, modern Wiccans and neo-pagans celebrate “Ostara,” a lesser Sabbat on the vernal equinox. Other names for this celebration include Eostre and Ostara and they are derived from the Anglo-Saxon lunar Goddess, Eostre. Some believe that this name is ultimately a variation on the names of other prominent goddesses, like Ishtar, Astarte, and Isis, usually a consort of the gods Osiris or Dionysus, who are depicted as dying and being reborn.

credits: Austin Cline

Who doesn't want to celebrate the coming of warm weather after a cold winter? Nothing wrong with that, is there?

No. Unless we celebrate it the way the above holidays describe. As born-again Christians, we do not want to participate in this kind of celebrations because they believe in goddesses etc.

  1Timothy 2:5 tells us:

For there is one God and one Mediator between God and men, the Man Christ Jesus

As believers, we can't have it both ways. These are Pagan celebrations, and we should never take part in them. 

Thanks for coming by today, Friends. I apologize for not getting here for a couple of days. But I sure pray that God blesses you. Until next time...have a wonderful rest of your day in Jesu