Anonymous #3 2d

Egg decorating for example existed across Africa to over 60,000 years ago, Persians decorated eggs for spring equinox celebration, Slavic and Eurasians decorated eggs for thousands of years too, in addition to pagans. So as Christianity spread, the customs were adopted and spread with it

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Anonymous #3 2d

christianity adopting the practices of the groups it conquered was very common. syncretism exists almost everywhere

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Anonymous #1 2d

Exactly. Especially with universal religions, you lure people in by relating their existing cultural practices to your own belief structure. Eggs represent rebirth? Cool they actually represent Jesus’ resurrection! In the UK hot cross buns are popular Easter sides, bc obv the cross that once representing the 4 seasons were adopted to represent Jesus’ crucifixion and defeat over death. Make it familiar to promote assimilation

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Anonymous #1 2d

No, it’s not common; biblically God commanded the Israelites to not adopt any customs of the people who lived there, he told them to completely destroy everything and not adopt any of their customs and traditions yet now Christian’s are adopting the pagan Easter traditions

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Anonymous OP 2d

That is the Old Testament which is in relation to Judaism, which is NOT a universalizing religion. And was in response to the failure of Judaism to grow, so they told people NOT to adopt customs out of fear of losing their faith in an already dwindling population. Christianity is universalizing, and thus has different traits. Google some biblical heritage before speaking on a topic you don’t understand

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Anonymous #3 2d

And Passover is a Jewish holiday, yet you wanna observe it but don’t observe it the way it’s supposed to be observed, then you call it Easter which is a pagan worship and has no biblical history at all. Since the church started in the New Testament you do realize that the believers never celebrated Passover right? Because it was part of the law which was abolished

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Anonymous OP 2d

Holy shit you’re dumb. They celebrate the resurrection of Christ on Passover. Early translations called it Pascha, which means Passover in Greek, which came from the Hellenistic period. More modern translations using Easter is just from the Germanic influence on English. Every other language calls Easter a derivative of Pascha. The MOST modern English translations have gone back to using Passover, but it’s still a celebration of the resurrection of Christ. That is biblical

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Anonymous OP 2d

So what? You’re mad English is a Germanic language? That makes all English translations of the Bible pagan?

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Anonymous #3 2d

If it’s the same then why are the dates for Passover different from Easter? And if it’s biblical when was Passover celebrated in the New Testament after Jesus died since it celebrates his death? And if celebrating his death why do the dates change each year, does the day he died differ each year?

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Anonymous OP 2d

You are not celebrating his death, you are celebrating his resurrection. It actually changes each year bc Easter Sunday falls on the Sunday after the first full moon after the spring equinox. The first full moon after the spring equinox is called the PASSOVER MOON, and Easter is celebrated on Sunday since Jesus was resurrected on a Sunday. Ofc there’s no biblical ordinance to celebrate his resurrection annually, but it marks his resurrection as a cornerstone of faith

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Anonymous #3 2d

Hence why I said it’s not biblical, if there’s no ordinance to it and it’s not in the bible then it’s not biblical, I’m not against people celebrating it or anything I just said Easter is not biblical because it’s not in the bible

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Anonymous #2 2d

mmmmmmmm

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Anonymous #4 2d

My microwave is saying this

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