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Posted by Moderator As my husband said, I did remove the posts on Easter. However, before doing so I copied them onto a Notepad, since I intended to answer them after the hectic events of Holy Week and Pascha had passed. So here is my reply; it is quite long because I haven't abridged the original article, but left it in its entirety: >truth about easter No email address left, so I have no idea who actually posted it. The bottom of the article says "Copyright © 1998-2001 Timothy A. & Kimberly B. Southall", so I just wanted to add that up here to avoid any charges of copyright infringement. >Please note that all scripture references are linked to The Bible Gateway. Seems to refer to the original article, so this is not tremendously relevant to us. I only include it because I don't want to be accused of changing the content of their article. >Many Christians are unaware of the origins of Easter, which is Actually, Christians have celebrated Christ's resurrection from the very start, calling it "Pascha", or Passover. When the Gospel came to Northern Europe, the feast came to be called "Easter" in English, "Ostern" in Germany. There are two theories as to why this happened. One is that it supplanted and took on the name of a pagan spring festival called "Eastre" or "Ostern", which was celebrated around the same time. Another theory states that Frankish Christians called Pascha by the Latin word "Alba", or "white" (referring to the white robes worn by the newly-baptized during the Paschal season). "Alba" also happens to mean "sunrise", so when the name of the feast got translated into German, the "sunrise" meaning was erroneously used, which resulted in the word "Ostern" (from "ost", or east, the direction of the sunrise). This later became the origin of the English word "Easter". At any rate, the truth is that Pascha was originally a Christian holiday, not a heathen one, and was derived from Judaism, not paganism. >Origins of the Word "Easter" and the Goddess it Represents. "Easter" So after stating that God doesn't want His worshippers to even utter the names of false gods, the writers immediately "utter" the names of no less than twelve pagan deities! By their own standards, they should not do this. Of course, God actually forbade the utterance of these names in *prayer*, to *invoke* the deities, not the mere mention of the names. Scripture itself mentions the names of Baal, Asherah, Diana, etc., did the Holy Spirit inspire the writers of the Bible to break God's command? > . . . call her what you will, but she is one and the same--a false Actually, these are not all one goddess, but many different ones from disparate cultures scattered all over Europe, Africa and the Middle East. You may think I'm nitpicking here, but I believe it is important to refute the notion that there is one "great goddess" on which all minor goddesses are based. >And God declares that she is detestable. Asherah is mentioned in Which only proves the point that Scripture mentions the names of false gods. How can anyone read those passages out loud without uttering those "forbidden" names? >In every instance, she is an idol which greatly angers God. Inanna, A dig at Mary; surprise, surprise. My own research did not bear out the unsubstantiated claim that Inanna "interceded with the gods", but I did find that she was the Sumerian goddess of love, sex, fertility, seasonal cycles, war, and yes, the patroness of prostitutes (Mary would never be considered such!). She descended into the underworld, then returned after tricking Damuzi, her spouse, to take her place. She was usually portrayed in art as an obese, unclothed female holding her mammaries. No similarity to Our Lady there! Even if the intercession stuff is true, the massive differences between Inanna and Mary are enough to show that the latter was not derived from the former. If one just looks at the similarities between any two figures it may seem impressive, but if one then considers the dissimilarities as well it changes the picture. >is represented with a star inscribed in a circle. There are several More digs at Mary; my article "Queen of Heaven" answers this one. See the link at the bottom of this post or the following url: http://home.nyc.rr.com/mysticalrose/mary.html#Jer7:18 >What, other than the obvious connection of the words "Easter" and They start talking about Eostra, then suddenly switch to Diana? She is an ancient Roman goddess, while Eostra was an Anglo-Saxon goddess. Again, the authors are convoluting different goddesses. >Eostre (an Anglo-Saxon/Teutonic goddess) was the goddess of the It also happens that Jesus died and rose from the dead at that same time of year, so it is logical that His resurrection would be celebrated during springtime. >Origins of Hares (Bunnies) and Eggs. According to Teutonic myth, the Sources, please. All the "plagarized paganism" stuff was probably cribbed directly from Hislop's _The Two Babylons_, an unreliable secondary source, or from Ralph Woodrow's_Babylon Mystery Religion_, an unreliable tertiary source. The latter, BTW, has been repudiated by its author, who wrote a book called _The Babylon Connection?_ to refute it. Whatever they meant to pagans, eggs and bunnies hold a different meaning for Christians. There is a cute children's story about a rabbit who witnessed the Resurrection and so became the first Easter Bunny. Then there's the ancient Eastern Christian legend of how God made an egg turn red to prove that Jesus rose from the dead (see the link at the end of the next post). Though these stories aren't in the Bible, they are Christian folklore, and show that rabbits and eggs have taken on a new significance for Christians. >The hare is also the sacred companion and sacrificial victim of So what connection does that have with Easter eggs? Aphrodite was allegedly born out of the waters, is that why Christians baptize people in water? Just making such a statement does not prove any actual connection between the two. continued in the next post... In Jesu et Maria, Link: Queen of Heaven
on 4/18/2001, 1:15 pm
+JMJ
>Posted by watchmen on 4/9/2001, 7:33 pm
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>found this may help someone on the STRAIT and NARROW (part 1)
>TRUTH about EASTER
>by Timothy A. & Kimberly B. Southall
>Revised January 9, 2001
>Therefore, if you click on a scripture reference, it may take a few moments
>for it to load. Once you are finished reading the scripture(s), click "back"
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>actually a pagan festival held in honor of idols. In fact, Easter
>was celebrated hundreds of years before the birth of Jesus Christ.
>It wasn't until at least 300 years after the death and resurrection
>of Jesus Christ and the establishment of his church that the
>celebration of his resurrection began to be intermingled with
>the pagan practices of Easter. You should know the truth.
>is derived from "Eostre," the pagan Anglo-Saxon goddess, and/or
>"Eostare," the Norse pagan festival of spring. When God gave the law
>to the Israelites in the Old Testament, he clearly instructed them
>not to even utter the name of other gods (Exodus 23:13). Aphrodite,
>Asherah, Ashtoreth, Astarte, Diana, Eostre, Ianna, Ishtar, Isis,
>Ostara, Semiramis, Venus
>goddess, an idol, worshiped by pagans.
>the Old Testament quite frequently (Exodus 34:13; Deuteronomy 7:5;
>Deuteronomy 12:2-4; Deuteronomy 16:21; Judges 6:25-30; 1 Kings
>14:15-23; 1 Kings 15:13; 1 Kings 16:33; 1 Kings 18:19; 2 Kings 13:6;
>2 Kings 17:7-16; 2 Kings 18:4; 2 Kings 21:3-7; 2 Kings 23:4-15;
>2 Chronicles 14:3; 2 Chronicles 15:16; 2 Chronicles 17:6; 2 Chronicles
>19:3; 2 Chronicles 24:18; 2 Chronicles 31:1; 2 Chronicles 34:3-7;
>Isaiah 17:8; Isaiah 27:9; Jeremiah 17:2; Micah 5:14). Ashtoreth (the
>Babylonian goddess of the woods and nature) is also mentioned by name
>in the Bible (Judges 2:11-13; 1 Samuel 7:3; 1 Kings 11:5, 33).
>the Sumerian patron of the temple prostitutes (also considered the
>merciful mother who intercedes with the gods on behalf of her
>worshipers),
>scriptures which clearly show that worship of any of the celestial
>elements (sun, moon or stars) is forbidden by God (Deuteronomy 17:2-5;
>2 Kings 21:3-7; 2 Kings 23:4-15; Ezekiel 8:15-16). Ishtar [pronounced
>"Aes-tar"] (the Babylonian/Chaldean goddess of love and war) and
>Semiramis (an Assyrian goddess) were both known as the "Queen of
>Heaven." And the "Queen of Heaven" is specifically mentioned in the
>Bible (Jeremiah 7:18; Jeremiah 44:19, 25).
>"Eostre" does this goddess have to do with the modern celebration of
>Easter? Plenty.
>Easter's connection with spring and nature. Diana (the Ephesian
>goddess of sex, fertility, virginity and motherhood) was said to be
>the source of nature.
>sunrise and spring. Ostara (a Norse/Saxon goddess) was the maiden
>goddess of spring.
>hare was once a bird whom Eostre changed into a four-footed creature.
>Thus, it can also lay eggs.
>Eostre. Astarte (a Phoenician/Syrian goddess), on the other hand,
>was believed to have been hatched from a huge egg which fell into
>the Euphrates.
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