When I was a child,
Easter was one of my favorite holidays.
I was raised in a highly filtered, luke warm to cold Christian atmosphere.
The holiday celebrations are kind of strange.
We make colored Easter eggs, and people eat ham or lamb and for some reason a magical rabbit hops around to Christian homes laying eggs like a bird or reptile.
Everyone goes to Church and is told the story of the resurrection of Jesus Christ.
The different parts of the cross and resurrection are told by using the converted pagan festivals the people already knew.
What was the rabbit, eggs and the pig originally a symbolic representative of?
~Note : I want to be crystal clear : I am not insulting any Church or person of how they celebrate Christ and the Gospel. I gave my life over to Christ as a born again a few years ago and started from scratch, with the intentions to fully immerse my understandings and seek an uncrimped, unaltered form of Christianity based on what the Scriptures teach.
I am learning. I will get many things wrong but I intend to push forward with Scripture as the guide. Writing this blog is to record my development. Share it with those interested and have a clear record to reflect back on as my understanding grows.
~ To follow the eternal laws for salvation as given to Moses. To verify the laws of salvation the Church proclaims before I blindly follow into my own eternity of damnation or salvation.
~ End of note
First of all, Easter's Christian roots were planted by the Roman Catholic Church system. Easter spread all around the world by Catholic Missionaries.
After Martin Luther and the Protestant Referendum split from the Catholic System over their differences, over time Easter and Catholic holidays crept back into the Protestant Church.
See not only did the Roman Church system Christianize Easter when they declared Christianity their empires main religion but before Christ Rome was already celebrating Easter. So too was the whole ancient world from 5000 years before Christ.
Biblical prophecies in the Old Testament known as the five books of Moses, written on
Mt. Sinai and in the New Testament written after the death of Christ, warns of wolves in sheep clothing who will corrupt and pervert the scriptures.
Those who say they are Monotheistic believers of the one Divine Creator but are from the synagogue / Temple / Church of Satan.
Who like to wear flashy garbs to be seen and admired and who worship the fallen one Lucifer and his minions of Angels who were banished from Heaven.
Who were also once shining light.
They will lie, deceive, manipulate, invert, distort and teach people to worship Lucifer as God and the worship the Angels of darkness as if they were still of light.
It was standard practice for the Church to convert Pagan religious pratices by building Churches on top of Pagan Holy sites and taking the Pagans already established rituals and converting them into Christian rituals and stories.
So does that make it still a Pagan celebration, Christian or a mix of both?
Scripture is clear that we are not to partake in paganism. This is why.
Pagan Religion that can be traced all the way back to the Babylonian, Sumer
Goddess Ishtar : Ish - meaning East and Tar meaning Star
East Star or as we say in the English vocabulary "Easter"
From the Babylon's Ishtar it's rituals moved through trade routes and into new cultures, stamping versions where it traveled but with new parts added and removed.
This short video tells the moderated version from Greece's influence to modern times.
If we look back at the original Sumerian traditions of Ishtar we also find that there were celebrations of fertility. Rejuvenation of mother earth marked by the spring equinox and marked around the world as the cosmic egg that birth the universe.
