A brief story about Easter celebration

EASTER THE PAGAN FESTIVALS

Easter is one of the most popular

religious celebrations in the world.

But is it biblical? The word Easter

appears only once in the King

James Version of the Bible (and

not at all in most others). In the

one place it does appear, the King

James translators mistranslated

the Greek word for Passover as

"Easter."

Notice it in Acts:12:4 : "And when

he [King Herod Agrippa I]

had

apprehended him [the apostle

Peter], 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."

The Greek word translated Easter here is

pascha, properly translated everywhere else in

the Bible as "Passover." Referring to this mistranslation, Adam Clarke's Commentary on

the Bible says that "perhaps there never was a more unhappy, not to say absurd, translation

than that in our text."

Think about theses facts for a minute. Easter

is such a major religious holiday. Yet nowhere in the Bible—not in the book of Acts, which

covers several decades of the history of the

early Church, nor in any of the epistles of the

New Testament, written over a span of 30 to

40 years after Jesus Christ's death and

resurrection—do we find the apostles or early

Christians celebrating anything like Easter.

The Gospels themselves appear to have been

written from about a decade after Christ's

death and resurrection to perhaps as much as

60 years later (in the case of John's Gospel).

Yet nowhere do we find a hint of anything

remotely resembling an Easter celebration.

If Easter doesn't come from the Bible, and

wasn't practiced by the apostles and early

Church, where did it come from?

Easter's surprising origins

Vine's Complete Expository Dictionary of Old

and New Testament Words, in its entry

"Easter," states:

"The term ‘Easter' is not of Christian origin. It

is another form of Astarte, one of the titles of

the Chaldean goddess, the queen of heaven.

The festival of Pasch [Passover] held by

Christians in post

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