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 Posted: Mon Aug 06, 2007 7:50 am
Why do we celebrate Easter and what does that have to do with Jesus?(sorry but I would just like to know)
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Posted: Mon Aug 06, 2007 12:01 pm
Easter is to celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ after he was crucified three days before on Good Friday. He died to forgive the sins of man.
That was about as short as I could make it.
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Posted: Mon Aug 06, 2007 12:37 pm
Kamicu Easter is to celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ after he was crucified three days before on Good Friday. He died to forgive the sins of man.
That was about as short as I could make it. Do you know where the egg hunting and all that came from or it's just something we do.
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Posted: Mon Aug 06, 2007 1:36 pm
TRIX RABBIT Kamicu Easter is to celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ after he was crucified three days before on Good Friday. He died to forgive the sins of man.
That was about as short as I could make it. Do you know where the egg hunting and all that came from or it's just something we do.
Perhaps Wikipedia has info on that?
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Posted: Tue Aug 07, 2007 3:55 am
Whee! Putting religion class to use, for once! X:
Easter is the celebration of Jesus' resurrection, as everyone knows.
And signs of new life are eggs, bunnies, tulips - make sense?
So the signs of new life tie into traditional aspects of life in the past (http://www.factmonster.com/spot/easterintro1.html).
And, yes, some traditions are silly - but fun, so we keep doing it. =D
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Posted: Wed Aug 08, 2007 8:08 am
Fairy_Sage Whee! Putting religion class to use, for once! X: Easter is the celebration of Jesus' resurrection, as everyone knows. And signs of new life are eggs, bunnies, tulips - make sense? So the signs of new life tie into traditional aspects of life in the past (http://www.factmonster.com/spot/easterintro1.html). And, yes, some traditions are silly - but fun, so we keep doing it. =D yea thanks that does make sense but if someone says they have a diffrent idea I guess you can post that as well it's a debate
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Posted: Wed Aug 08, 2007 7:22 pm
Like posted before, its about the resserection of Jesus Christ, people can also be forgiven multiple times.
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Posted: Fri Aug 10, 2007 9:52 pm
wtf does a bunny and colorful eggs have to do with the resurrection of Jesus?
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Posted: Fri Aug 10, 2007 9:53 pm
i would really like to know 3nodding
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Posted: Fri Aug 10, 2007 9:59 pm
FF Moogle wtf does a bunny and colorful eggs have to do with the resurrection of Jesus? the same BS that states Santa and elves are a part of Christmas?
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Posted: Sun Sep 02, 2007 1:41 pm
I called her on the phone and she touched herself... Easter as we know it is a mix between the Christian celebration of Jesus' dying for our sins and a pagan celebration of new life. I don't know all the details. ...I laughed myself to sleep.
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Posted: Sun Sep 02, 2007 4:31 pm
Easter much like Christmas has pagan roots so that mass conversions and control could have been purported much more easily. Here is a small article in regards to Easter's original pagan roots all over Europe.
Many, perhaps most, Pagan religions in the Mediterranean area had a major seasonal day of religious celebration at or following the Spring Equinox. Cybele, the Phrygian fertility goddess, had a fictional consort who was believed to have been born via a virgin birth. He was Attis, who was believed to have died and been resurrected each year during the period MAR-22 to MAR-25. "About 200 B.C. mystery cults began to appear in Rome just as they had earlier in Greece. Most notable was the Cybele cult centered on Vatican hill ...Associated with the Cybele cult was that of her lover, Attis (the older Tammuz, Osiris, Dionysus, or Orpheus under a new name). He was a god of ever-reviving vegetation. Born of a virgin, he died and was reborn annually. The festival began as a day of blood on Black Friday and culminated after three days in a day of rejoicing over the resurrection."
Wherever Christian worship of Jesus and Pagan worship of Attis were active in the same geographical area in ancient times, Christians "used to celebrate the death and resurrection of Jesus on the same date; and pagans and Christians used to quarrel bitterly about which of their gods was the true prototype and which the imitation."
Many religious historians believe that the death and resurrection legends were first associated with Attis, many centuries before the birth of Jesus. They were simply grafted onto stories of Jesus' life in order to make Christian theology more acceptable to Pagans. Others suggest that many of the events in Jesus' life that were recorded in the gospels were lifted from the life of Krishna, the second person of the Hindu Trinity. Ancient Christians had an alternative explanation; they claimed that Satan had created counterfeit deities in advance of the coming of Christ in order to confuse humanity. Modern-day Christians generally regard the Attis legend as being a Pagan myth of little value. They regard Jesus' death and resurrection account as being true, and unrelated to the earlier tradition.
And there you have it, the reason for the Easter celebration. As for the chicks and bunnies. This was taken from the Wikipedia article about the Easter Bunny.
Eggs, like rabbits and hares, are fertility symbols of extreme antiquity; since birds lay eggs and rabbits and hares give birth (to large litters) in the early spring, these became symbols of the rising fertility of the earth at the Vernal Equinox
Is that a good enough answer or do you need some more?
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Posted: Mon Sep 03, 2007 10:51 am
Noxness FF Moogle wtf does a bunny and colorful eggs have to do with the resurrection of Jesus? the same BS that states Santa and elves are a part of Christmas? I explained that - people make fun of bunnies, eggs and Jesus - bunnies, eggs, and tulips are signs of new life. Yeah... the Santa and elves thing, I want to know about that too! I should look that up. Yokomotor is right, Christians celebrate holidays around the same time as other religions so it's easier for people. ^_^
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Posted: Thu Sep 06, 2007 1:43 pm
It has become a mix of christian and pagan (sp) traditions in one holiday.
Happy Jesus Zombie Day
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Posted: Sat Aug 01, 2009 2:28 pm
I liked easter as a kid, but since i've grown up, it seems really fake and commercialized. Not as bad as christmas, but it still is
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