Should Christians celebrate Easter?

Philippines
April 3, 2010 3:33am CST
Each spring the excitement of Easter fills the air. Many churches prepare special Easter programs about the death and Resurrection of Jesus Christ. At home mothers color Easter eggs, and parents hide the brightly colored holiday symbol around the house and lawn so that, when the Easter morning come, their children can excitedly hunt for them. What do colored eggs and the Easter rabbit have to do with Jesus Christ's Resurrection How did these seemingly irreligious symbols come to be associated with that event? Any Opinion..
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PastorP
@PastorP (1170)
• United States
19 Nov 10
Aye. Much of the rabbit and such are non-Christian trappings. Early in my ministry I stopped calling that time Easter. Our church calls it Resurrection Day. I think the KJV translators unwittingly were one of the first to insert that term in the one verse in Acts, where it should have been translated "Passover." Ac 12:4 And when he had apprehended him, he put him in prison, and delivered him to four quaternions of soldiers to keep him; intending after Easter to bring him forth to the people. Young's Literal has... Ac 12:4 whom also having seized, he did put in prison, having delivered him to four quaternions of soldiers to guard him, intending after the passover to bring him forth to the people. Sadly, KJ21 kept the term. Gladly, and I just checked, the NKJ has Passover! So glad, since that's the current translation our church uses.