Easter is the "principal festival of the Christian Church year, and it is defined as a feast or a festival of the Christian Church that commemorates the resurrection of Christ. Western Christians observe and celebrate Easter on the first Sunday following the full moon that occurs on or after March 21. Originally, easter was a pagan festival honoring Easter, a Teutonic (Germanic) goddess of light and spring. The only appearance of the word Easter in the (KJV) bible is a mistranslation of the word Pascha, the ordinary Greek word for Passover. The festival of Easter occurs on a particular Sunday, but its importance is emphasized in the worship of the church by the preparation of Lent; by Holy week, and by the following seven weeks until Pentecost. Also, alot of traditions that we have today are taken from paganism. The Easter Egg was a sacred symbol of the Babylonians, and they believed an old fable of an egg of wondrous size which was supposed to have fallen from heaven into the Euphrates River, and from this egg the goddess Astarte was hatched. So the egg came to symbolize the Goddess Easter. The rabbit/hare is associated with the moon in the legends of ancient Egypt and with the idea of ovulation, and a symbol of fertility and of the renewal of life.
The world has become such a wretched place that they have turned every Holy day into a holiday. They've tried to take Jesus out of everything, but you can't do that because Jesus is in everything, omnipresent and omnipotent, God is everywhere.
- Proverbs 4:7 (Amplified) says "The beginning of Wisdom is: get Wisdom (skillful and Godly wisdom)! [For skillful and godly Wisdom is the principal thing.] And with all you have gotten, get understanding (discernment, comprehension, and interpretation).
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