Thread: easter is a pagan holiday ? -- that's a cunningly devised fable that falls flat on its face
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easter is a pagan holiday ? -- that's a cunningly devised fable that falls flat on its face
Posted : 1 Apr, 2021 07:16 AM
No, Easter is not a pagan holiday. Easter is the Christian celebration of Jesus Christ’s resurrection from the dead. Christians believe that Jesus, the Son of God, died for our sins on a Roman cross, was buried, and rose to life again “on the first day of the week, very early in the morning” (Luke 24:1).
Those who claim that Easter is a pagan holiday usually mean that the word Easter is etymologically linked to the name of an ancient goddess or that various pagan groups also held ceremonies in the springtime. Neither claim carries much weight.
First, we’ll consider the idea that Easter is a pagan holiday because the name Easter has pagan origins. Some say that a Saxon goddess named Eostre is the namesake of our modern holiday. Others say that the word Easter comes from the name of a Germanic goddess named Ostara. The problem with both of these theories is that there is no real evidence that anyone ever worshiped a goddess by either name. The only mention of Eostre comes from a passing reference in the history of the Venerable Bede. The first mention of a goddess named Ostara is in a book by Jakob Grimm—and Grimm admitted that he could find no solid link between Easter and pagan celebrations
Next, we’ll consider the idea that Easter is a pagan holiday because its springtime observance coincides with those of pagan religions. There are a plethora of pagan holidays that occur during the season covered by Easter: the Day of Bau (Babylonian), Dark Mother Day (Indian), the Day of Fortuna (Roman), the Feast of Blajini (Romanian), the Feast of Artemis/Diana (Greek/Roman), the Feast of Tellus Mater (Roman), the Festival of Ba’ast (Egyptian), the Festival of Ishtar (Babylonian), the Feast of Elaphebolia (Athenian), and Odin’s Day (Norse), to name a few. But sharing a date on the calendar is no proof that two holidays are related. A married couple who celebrate their wedding anniversary on October 31 should not be accused of appropriating Halloween
in short, claims that Easter is a pagan holiday are based on hearsay, assumptions, and inferences, with no hard evidence to back them up. Even if Easter Sunday were a Christianized version of an ancient pagan holiday, it would not mean that Easter itself is a pagan holiday. No one today is sacrificing to a goddess named Eostre or Ostara. Regardless of what a day may once have meant, its observance today needs to be evaluated on the basis of what it means today. Christians celebrating Easter are no more pagan than are churches who gather to worship on Sunday (so named because it was the pagan “Day of the Sun”). The pagan origins of the names of the days of the week have nothing to do with the church’s weekly gatherings, and ancient pagan spring festivals have no real bearing on the modern Christian celebration of Easter.
Although not written about Easter, Romans 14:5–6 can apply: “One person considers one day more sacred than another; another considers every day alike. Each of them should be fully convinced in their own mind. Whoever regards one day as special does so to the Lord.” If an individual Christian worries about some aspects of an Easter celebration, that Christian should do what he or she believes to be right. He should not judge others who celebrate differently, nor should the others judge him when no clear biblical guideline is involved
so if one still maintains that Easter is a pagan holiday then I have some mountain front property to sell you on Salar de Uyuni, a salt flat in Bolivia that's the flattest place on earth
2nd Peter 1:16 For we did not follow cleverly devised fables when we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we were eyewitnesses of His majesty............ and this would include man has evolved from apes, atheism, gnosticism assorted other heresies and the earth is flat too
Problem is, the Bible says the PASSOVER is its name and has nothing to do with a CULT PAGAN calendar using PAGAN worship of planetary gods like SUN-day???
easter is a pagan holiday ? -- that's a cunningly devised fable that falls flat on its face
Posted : 1 Apr, 2021 07:41 AM
Yup you heard it from rsvp here! The earth is as flat as the 'salt flat in Bolivia, that's the flattest place on earth' as an example of ZERO curvature!
easter is a pagan holiday ? -- that's a cunningly devised fable that falls flat on its face
Posted : 1 Apr, 2021 07:55 AM
Christians celebrate Resurrection Day of Jesus Christ.
We know the importance of Christ's death, burial and Resurrection.
The world celebrates Easter with the purchase of bunny rabbits, easter baskets, colored eggs, egg hunts, parties, etc and what ever else people do on that weekend.
Worldly people do not know Christ and in need of Salvation.
easter is a pagan holiday ? -- that's a cunningly devised fable that falls flat on its face
Posted : 1 Apr, 2021 08:01 AM
wrong again fix a flat teddy so let's borrow the Energizer Easter Bunny and hop on over to science class
Fix a flat Earthers take the flatness of Salar de Uyuni and other salt flats as ‘evidence’ of a flat Earth. They are wrong as usual while most salt flats appear flat, they still gradually curve and follow the curvature of the Earth.
It is not difficult to demonstrate this fact by comparing the appearance of a landmark from a close distance and far enough for the Earth’s curvature to start to obscure it.
Over the northern edge of Salar de Uyuni, there is a dormant volcano Mount Tunupa, visible from everywhere on the salar. By moving south away from the mountain, we can see the mountain gradually becomes obstructed by Earth’s curvature, starting from the bottom up.
the same phenomenon we experience at sea —where distant buildings and ships disappear from the bottom up as we go farther from them— also happens on Salar de Uyuni. All proves the Earth is a sphere unless the Energizer Easter Bunny lays flat eggs too?
Detailed Analysis
The following is Mount Tunupa seen from various locations on Salar de Uyuni. Observers see less of Mount Tunupa the farther they are......
Mount Tunupa topology and features:
The main peak is 5321 m above sea level or 1665 m above Salar de Uyuni. The right peak is 5150 m above sea level or 484 m above Salar de Uyuni.
Calculated Simulation
The following is the hidden height of the object, calculated using Walter Bislin’s Curvature App.
At 27 km, 32 m is hidden.
At 40 km, 80 m is hidden
At 59 km, 191 m is hidden
At 70 km, 276 m is hidden
At 83 km, 398 m is hidden
Parameters: height 1.5 m, refraction Std-Atm. Permalink.
the height of the smaller hill is about 484 m. So the numbers reflect the results from observation rather nicely
easter is a pagan holiday ? -- that's a cunningly devised fable that falls flat on its face
Posted : 1 Apr, 2021 09:56 AM
buuuuuwwwaaaaahahahahaha! rsvp trusts his 'Walter Bislin’s Curvature App.' scam app on his PC over what his eyes sees thru telescopes and P900 cameras!!!??? Hilarious! Hey LIAR rsvp, we have been to many salt flats and to ALWAYS FLAT WATER reservoirs and done REAL laser test also for many miles and there is ZERO curvature and therefore YOU are LIAR until YOU do those tests!
rsvp the LIAR also states - 'Earth’s curvature, starting from the bottom up. the same phenomenon we experience at sea —where distant buildings and >>>ships disappear from the bottom up<<< as we go farther from them'
Anyone with a telescope on a stationary tripod or P900 camera by zooming in on a distant ship that you cannot no longer see with the naked eye, and there it is from bottom to top no matter how far it is out! You can view that same ship until humidity finally makes ALL of the ship unable to see it clearly! Your a wicked secular LIAR rsvp!
There are MANY u-tube videos also CLEARLY showing ships disappearing from view by the un added eye, only to reappear FULLY again top to bottom by P900 camera when they zoom in! U-tube videos call you a LIAR rsvp!
easter is a pagan holiday ? -- that's a cunningly devised fable that falls flat on its face
Posted : 1 Apr, 2021 03:42 PM
Flat Earth TeddyBug is very confident in his incompetence. 🐞🥸😂
Curiously Flat Earth TeddyBug blindly believes, without any type of rational justification, any or all flat earther YouTube videos simply because they are flat earth vidies but rejects the ultimate in trustworthiness of a multitudinous plethora of live videos clearly showing a round earth‼️‼️🥺
Some people in other parts of the round earth also believe the flat earth like Flat Earth Teddy but they believe it’s supported by an elephant and a turtle ‼️
YES‼️ YES YOU CANT MAKE THIS STUFF UP‼️
Flat Earth atop an elephant or a turtle, whatever you prefer‼️ See my new thread about the turtle one‼️
Hey, Flat Earth TeddyBug, which creature does your flat earth rest upon—a BIG TeddyBug perhaps?
