Christians:Where in the bible does it explain the meaning of Easter?

Question

Where in the bible doesn't talk about it? How did Easter come about and why? What does it represent?

Answer 1

About half of John's Gospel is about Easter, and it takes up a disproportionately large amount of space in the other gospels as well.



It is about the Crucifixion and Resurrection of Jesus, and the immediately prior events.



Unlike his birth, we have a pretty good idea of when Jesus died, which is why Easter is linked to the date of the Jewish Passover. (And despite atheist fantasies, the date of Easter has got nothing to do with the date of any pagan festivals.)

Answer 2

The Death Burial and Resurrection of Christ is the cornerstone of Christianity. Take it out of Christianity and you have no Christianity. In fact if it is not a true historical event then we are all figments of our imagination for there would be no God, no world no people no universe. The Resurrection is that important pivotal climax to History and all future events.



The meaning of Easter and how it came to be celebrated however is differently portrayed in the Bible the event centers around the Passover in Jewish history. Thus this event always was around a specific calendar event that changed from year to year and that is why the dates for Easter change each year. Easter is the celebration of Christ rising from the dead. It is discussed in detail by each gospel, the acts, 1 Corinthians and more.



The meaning is that when you are baptized into Christ when you go down into the water this symbolizes your death in you are being buried and death to the world to everything that you used to be and then when you come up out of the water it symbolizes your being raised with Christ a new Creation an empowering of your life to be like Christ representative of Him

Answer 3

The last few chapters of all 4 of the gospels describe the meaning of Easter, how and why it came about. I don't know that Easter "represents" anything. It is more in the way of a memorial or celebration of Jesus rising from the dead - not a "representative" sort of holiday.



Matthew - chapter 26 to the end of the book

Mark - chapter 14 to the end of the book

Luke - chapter 22 to the end of the book

John - chapter 13 to the end of the book (this one is a lot longer than the others)



- Jim, http://www.bible-reviews.com/



P.S. As far as appropriately-accredited scholars are able to determine, the English word "Easter" has **absolutely no** relationship to the name "Ishtar", nor does the celebration of Easter. That is a deceptive and - as far as anyone can determine - inaccurate religious teaching.

Answer 4

Easter: Although this holiday is supposed to commemorate Christ’s resurrection, note what secular authorities say regarding it:

“Easter. Originally the spring festival in honor of the Teutonic goddess of light and spring known in Anglo-Saxon as Eastre. As early as the 8th century the name was transferred by the Anglo-Saxons to the Christian festival designed to celebrate the resurrection of Christ.”—The Westminster Dictionary of the Bible (Philadelphia, 1944), by John D. Davis, page 145.

“Everywhere they hunt the many-colored Easter eggs, brought by the Easter rabbit. This is not mere child’s play, but the vestige of a fertility rite, the eggs and the rabbit both symbolizing fertility.”—Funk & Wagnalls Standard Dictionary of Folklore Mythology and Legend (New York, 1949), Volume 1, page 335.



“What fellowship do righteousness and lawlessness have? Or what sharing does light have with darkness? Further, what harmony is there between Christ and Belial [a false god]? Or what portion does a faithful person have with an unbeliever? . . . ‘Therefore get out from among them, and separate yourselves,’ says Jehovah.”—2 Corinthians 6:14-17.

So if a holiday or a celebration is in some way linked to other gods or goddesses, or if observing it is contrary to our understanding of Biblical principles, we do not take part.

Answer 5

It talks about the resurrection...not Easter in the Book of Luke, Book of Matthew

Answer 6

Easter is a celebration of Jesus' crucifixion that came about after the bible was written

Answer 7

The gospels all of them (if you are talking about the death and ressurection of Christ) towards the ends



If you are talking about the bunnies and the chickies and the eggs I haven't a friggin clue

Answer 8

Easter is actually not in the Bible. The reason Jesus Christ came to earth was to DIE for our sins, not to be born for us or to be resurrected for us. It is his death we are to remember and live accordingly to his command to remember it.



I don't mean that he was not resurrected, the word Easter was not used.

Answer 9

It doesn't. Easter is another way of saying "Ishtar", which is a pagan god of fertility. No Christian has any business saying "happy easter".

Answer 10

It's yet another Christianized pagan festival, so even though I'm a Christian I don't celebrate it. I am freaking NOT going to no damn sunrise service, as it is a sun-worshipers practice. But if a Christian sees the day as something special, they can celebrate it. I do not consider the day as special.



EDIT: But if anyone has the chocolate and little candy thingys, I consider them yummy!

Answer 11

first 4 books of the new testament , they are different accounts of how everything went down when Jesus got killed and came back





if a Christian cant say Happy Easter, they cant quote Santas "ho ho ho's" either

Answer 12

The Bible writers created 2 distinct holidays, Passover and Easter.



Passover is Jewish while Easter is Christian.



Jesus instituted the Christian Easter Celebration totally different from Passover! It doesn’t have any connection with it except that it is celebrated at about the same time.



The Jewish PASSOVER is about God killing ALL the innocent firstborn children of Egyptian parents.



Exodus 12:12

For I* (*God the Father) will PASS THROUGH*

(*Passover)



the land of Egypt this night, and WILL SMITE all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and against all the Gods of Egypt*

(*God and Saint Paul admit the existence of MANY OTHER GODS -1Cor8:5! It would be very silly of God to SMITE ALL the Gods of Egypt, if they don’t exist!)



I will execute judgment: I am the LORD!



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God slaughtered all the innocent first born children not celebrating the Jewish “PASSOVER” event.



The 2,000,000+ Jews were supposed to be DESTITUTE SLAVES IN EGYPT, but every singly Jewish family was celebrating the “PASSOVER FEAST” roasting a lamb for dinner.



The Jews were SLAVES in Egypt, but they owned over 500,000 sheep, large extensions of grassing fields to feed their sheep, and all the trimming needed for the Passover meal.



While at the same time, their Egyptian MASTERS were wailing not only the death of their firstborn children, but also the TOTAL DESTRUCTION, SEVERAL TIMES OVER OF ALL OF THEIR LIVESTOCK.



The Jews are successful Bible writers from way back! Regardless of all the absurd stories in the Bible, religious people are willing to kill, and die to defend, or at least to bleed at a rate of 10% of their income for life.



As soon as Israel invaded God’s Promised Land that was “Flowing with Milk and Honey,” they began to starve to death to the point that God forced them to eat their own children for dinner (Jer19:9, Lam4:10)!



Christians are stuck with this primitive gruesome God! Fortunately they came up with the Trinity idea that allows them to pick a “sweeter” member of the ELOHIM family as the least of the 3 evils.



The Christian EASTER celebration is the nailing of God the Son Jesus Christ to a Holy Roman Cross! Christianity is full of slaughtering!



The first Christian Easter celebration was instituted by Jesus and a group of “MEN ONLY” who rejected all family ties to follow him.



The original JEWISH PASSOVER is celebrated in a family setting where the kid in the house is asking daddy at dinner, “why is this night so different from all the other nights?” And daddy would tell everybody at the table the “Exodus” story.



There are some “spiritual” similarities. Both celebrations have to do with an “exodus” of some sort.



Mark 10:28-30

Peter said to him, "We have left everything to follow you!"*

(*Israel also left the good land of Egypt)



"I TELL YOU THE TRUTH,"*

(*no bull crap now!)



Jesus replied, "no one who has left home or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or fields for me and the gospel will fail to receive a hundred times as much in this present age homes, brothers, sisters, mothers, children and fields--and with them, persecutions and in the age to come, eternal life*

(*Jesus forgot to mention that in the meantime Christians need to be up to date paying their tithes and offerings to the Church Treasury -Acts 5:1-11)



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Any JW knows that Jesus instituted the ritual of the Holy Communion in violation of a clear commandment of God about not drinking any blood –Gen 9:4



John 6:53

Then Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you*

(*this time is really no bull crap!)



Except ye eat the FLESH of the Son of man, and drink his BLOOD, ye have no life in you*

(*Jesus is addressing a vampire oriented population of future Christians)



The Bible writers made it so that breaking any Law of God is OK as long as it is done to favor the newly forming Christian faith!



God makes the rules as the Bible stories are being developed. In those days the “Word of God” was as close to any Priest or Preacher as a pen and a piece of paper to the Bible writer!

Answer 13

CHRISTIAN BROTHERS: EASTER IS A PAGAN HOLIDAY!





How does that make you feel?

Answer 14

same place it talks about christmas...