FAQ Easter Pagan Lie
Redeeming Holy Days from pagan lies
You might have heard the misinformation circulating from atheist's, non Christians & cult groups trying to wreck your faith and deceive those who are looking into Christianity. This information will help you.
Resurrection Day is the day we celebrate Jesus resurrection from the dead, defeating death, and bringing salvation to all who obey the Gospel.
In earlier western countries the word Easter appeared. 👉 This & This will give some history on that, and refutes the pagan lies.
Resurrection Day is not pagan, and any argument about it having to do with Oster, Ishtar, or another deity is demonstrably false linguistically and chronologically.
Easter was celebrated centuries before any deity named Oster was ever even invented, the tradition of painting eggs comes from the Passover and Jesus’ blood covering sin, and even the name Easter itself is just the word for “Passover” translated into Middle English, and comes from completely different linguistic origins than any deity named Oster, Eostre, or anything else others try to suggest. In many places in the world Easter is still called Pasach, which again is just Passover.
This book goes into how religions before Christ, and after Christ, added things about Christ to their gods and religion, how they attributed, merged and modified things to make it appear like their god was just as powerful and amazing as The God YHWH. But as time went on, the world connected... and in modern times people were able to see that the religion of their country lied to them all, and that history proves these things are actually about Jesus, (God in the flesh), who lived among us in Israel.
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In Closing,
This time of year comes with an unstoppable wave of ill-informed posts about the etymological roots of Easter by non Christians, so as a learned etymologist, feel that it is my civic duty to educate non Christians on this interesting though contentious topic.
Though it is thought by some that the term Easter has a pagan origin, even if it did, all that really remains of that is the phonetic structure passed down to us through linguistic history.
The English word Easter comes from the Anglo-Saxon name for the month of April 'Ēosturmōnaþ' (Eastermonath=Eastermonth), it was shortened in the 6th century to Ēostur and wasn't officially changed to April until the 11th century Norman Conquest.
Ēostur eventually became Easter and remained a common name for April until the early 19th century, though it is still used even today in some English lexicons.
It was also a common name for a farmer's festival. The first week of Easter, nee Ēostur, was called Easter week which was a celebration of the end of winter, the name associated with this festival would become synonymous with the Christian tradition of rememberence known as Pascha prior to this change.
A similar celebration to this would be held in October to celebrate the end of harvest called Winterfylleth wèk (Winter fullness week. Winterfylleth is the Anglosaxon equivalent of October) we now call this festival Halloween, though somewhere was added strange aspects of celtic superstition to it, since the 19th century, sort of like we have with modern Easter. The egg collecting and rabbits are a pre-modern addition to educate children, became a festive Christian tradition, during the time believers set aside for recognizing Christ's death and resurrection.
People assume the term Easter has pagan origins, but so does pretty much everything else on our calendars. I don't hear anyone complaining about the weekly days dedicated to Saxon gods, Tiw the anglo Saxon God of War has Tiw'sday, Wodan the Anglosaxon all father has Wodan'sday, Thor the Anglo-Saxon God of thunderstorms has Thors'day, and Freya the Anglosaxon goddess of fertility has Freyaday. These days are now known as Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday. We also have the Roman Saturn's day which is Saturday. They use those words 365/yr without issue.
Please, when you are critiquing the event as being anti-christian, please focus solely on the aspects of the season that are actually not biblical, but also dont disreguard the parts connected to Christian education, and celebration of the season, such as the eggs and rabbits, and don't throw the biblical and historical facts of God-fearing Christians under the bus for those who simply using the term Easter to describe the Season. *Of which many now simply call "Resurrection Day". But, also note, avoiding using terms linguistically rooted in paganism is an unreasonable and almost impossible standard that none of us English speakers keeps in our day-to-day lives.
Resurrection Day was always about Jesus resurrection. Today the focus of the celebration is still on Christ and we can use various ways to educate and point people to Christ. This is a most holy day for Believers, (though we celebrate Christ's resurrection 365 24/7 anyway).
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