Does Easter worth celebrating?, if yes why and if No, also give your reasons.?

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Answer 1

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Yes it celeberates Jesus death and the forgiving of sins of man and His Resercution and the beginning of Christanity...

Answer 2

sure, you remember that life returns

Answer 3

Yes. I consider it like a Christian feast day. Since we dont celebrate passover.

Answer 4

pagan

Answer 5

Yes it is. The original celebration was the freedom of the Jews from the Egyptians (Passover). When Jesus walked this earth, He freed us from sin by dying on the cross, and that happened on Easter.
So it is a good thing to remember that we have a Saviour that died for us.
As long as you don't indulge on chocolate as the world wants you to do, you can't go wrong...

Answer 6

Sure. I think pagan holidays are fun.
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Answer 7

For Since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die. even so in Christ shall all be made alive."1 Corinthians 15:21,22.......

Answer 8

No it is not...because of its pagan origins...WE Christians should celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ on a different Sunday and call it Resurrection day and completely disassociate ourselves with this heathen contrived day so called Easter...As i personally have done.

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http://www.christiananswers.net/q-eden/e…

Answer 9

Easter is the most important part of Christianity, because without the resurrection of Christ our belief has no value. Not all of the rituals are purely Christian in origin but so long as they point back to Christ as the reason for celebrating then they are fine.

Answer 10

because of easter, we have the Lord's day.

it is important to remember that God the Son not only died, but rose again to life everlasting.

the lamb that was rejected that passover week is our passover. the blood that is spread over the door post of our hearts is the blood of God's perfect lamb that saved us from the bondage of sin. God's judgement of sin has therefor passed over me. the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, is the greatest event in history... all of this cyclical creation revolves around this person Jesus.

Answer 11

Easter kicks ***. Where else would I get my fix of chocolate bunnies, easter eggs, and marshmallow Peeps?

I ask of you this. :D

Answer 12

Easter is the day God confirmed Jesus was exactly who he claimed to be, and all that he proclaimed was the truth.

The authentic church, from the beginning, saw fit to celebrate not only Easter, but every Sunday, as the universal feast day of every Christian, everywhere.

That ought to be enough for anybody.

Answer 13

Easter is, respectfully, a pagan holiday. Its most obvious symbols ... the rabbit and eggs ... represent fertility.

Answer 14

Easter is not worth celebrating because it is a pagan day honoring the goddess Ishtar (Ostara, Astarte, Estera, Eastre, Ostare, Eostre); the queen of heaven.
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Jeremiah 7:18; 44:17, 25

EASTER NOT FOUND IN THE BIBLE
"The English word 'Easter' came from the Anglo-Saxon Eastre or Estera, a Teutonic goddess to whom sacrifice was offered in April, so the name was transferred to the Pashal Feast. The word does not properly occur in Scripture although the AV (King James Translation) has it in ACTS 12:4 where it stands for 'Passover' as it is rightly rendered in RV (Revised Version). There is no trace of Easter celebration in the New Testament..." (INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BIBLE ENCYCLOPEDIA VOL.2, P.889). The word 'Easter' has confused some but the word in the original form is "Pascha" meaning "Passover". It occurs 29 times in the New Testament & everytime it's translated Passover except in Acts 12:4. If you read carefully (ACTS 12:1-4); it says that Herod killed James and was trying to kill Peter in an effort to "vex the church"(Please the Jews). Then in VERSE 3 "were the days of unleavened bread"; see LEV.23. He put him in prison intending to try him "after Easter" (KJV). Now if Herod was trying to "please the Jews" & "vex the church" Why would he have delayed the trial until after 'Easter?'" If this was a "christian holy day", especially one in honoring Christ's resurrection, he would surely not be pleasing the Jews, Wouldn't it be more pleasing to the Jews to vex the church by killing one of it's Apostles on it's own "holy-day," would it not?

ORIGIN OF EASTER: WHERE DID IT COME FROM?
Easter was never observed by the Apostles of Christ or Christ's Religion. "The name 'Easter' comes to us from the mythlogical writings of the Ancient Teucrians (who lived 1200BC along the southern coast of Palestine) where it's known as 'Ostern'" BY GROVER STEVENS. "The name 'Easter' is merely the slightly changed English spelling of the name of the ancient Assyrian and Babylonian idol goddess, Ishtar (pronounced eesh-tar)." WEBSTER'S DICTIONARY says "Easter is from the pre-historic name of a pagan spring festival." THE OXFORD DICTIONARY OF ENGLISH ETYMOLOGY says, "Easter is derived from the name of goddess whose feast was celebrated at the vernal equinox." THE SCHOLARY NEW SCHAFF-HERZOG RELIGIOUS ENCYCLOPEDIA says, "This goddess is also widely known as Astarte...The cult originated in Babylonia and spread to Assyria, Mesopotamia, Syria & Palestine, then through the Phoenicians to all of the Meditteranean peoples...Ishtar was in fact primarily and chiefly identified as Venus, the most beautiful of celestial objects & from the terrestrial side, the primarily motive of the worship of Ishtar was the impulse to deify sensuous and sensuality." ALEXANDER HISLOP SAYS IN THE TWO BABYLONS (P.103), "Easter bears its Chaldean origin on its forehead. Easter is nothing else than Asarte, one of the titles of Beltis, the queen of heaven..."
http://family.webshots.com/photo/1370351…
http://www.matrifocus.com/IMB04/spotligh…
http://www.albatrus.org/english/festival…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ishtar
http://www.lcg.org/search/search.php?que…
http://www.tomorrowsworld.org/cgi-bin/tw…

The Easter Bunny and eggs deal with fertility of the goddess Ishtar. "Eggs, the obvious symbols of fertility and reproduction, were used in ancient fertility rites. They were painted with various magical symbols and then cast into fires or buried in the earth as offerings to the Goddess. In certain parts of the world, Spring Equinox eggs were painted yellow or gold (sacred solar colors) and used in rituals to honor the Sun God. Easter, like every other Christian religious holiday is rich with an abundance of Pagan overtones, customs and traditions such as Easter eggs and Easter bunny. Eggs, as previously discussed were ancient fertility symbols and offerings to the Goddess of the Pagans and Witches in both western and eastern cultures, including the Goddess Ostara, whose escort was a rabbit. "
http://www.nobleknights.com/~eagle1/eost…

Easter Bunny Origination
http://search.yahoo.com/search?ei=utf-8&…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easter_Bunn…

EASTER EGGS
Note: these sites tell where Easter Eggs came from.
http://www.nobleknights.com/~eagle1/eost…
http://www.rightdivision.com/html/easter…

EXODUS 20:3 = "Thou shalt not have other gods before me." It tells us in verse 5 = "not to bow to them nor serve them".
(Pagan means no religious beliefs; in the 1984 New Concise Webster's Dictionary--Pagan defined : "A heathen; one having no religious beliefs")

Here are the texts of gods that should not be worshipped:
EXOD.20:23; 32:3,4,8-10,19-23,30
DEUT.4:19,28-31; 11:26-28; 17:3
JER.10
EZEK.8:13-18
DAN. 3:1-18 (tried to make Daniel's friends to bow to the image, but they didn't)

New Testament Texts:
GAL.4:8-10 (pagan feasts are: New Year's, Valentine's-Cupid, Patrick's Day, Easter-Ishtar, Halloween, Christmas, Sunday-sun{from sunset Sat. to sunset Sunday = GEN.1:5), Monday-moon-{worship after sunset Sunday which would be Sunday evening(Sun.even to Mon.even)= considered to be Monday according to GEN.1:8}. Birthdays come from pagan origin too. = (only 2 birthdays are mentioned in Bible; they are: Pharoah and King Herod)
You can find most of things in sources like encyclopedias, history, etc. that tell you it's pagan or that it comes from pagan origin.
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VERSES-- DEUT.4:19,28-31; 11:26-28; 17:3 & GAL.4:8-10.