Actually I was referencing that based on what we have been told about the crucifixion and Passover.. and the weekly Sabbath that week leading to the Resurrection,,, and the perfect timing and how all worked like clock work to that empty tomb that if it was this year... with Passover being almost a month past Easter... if this had been the timing back then it would have thrown everything off from what we were taught.
Even the "Last Supper" would have not happened... instead it might just have been a weekly Sabbath.
NOW... a great sore spot with me is the use of Easter that Jimmy's men put in his translation.
And I am sick and tired of those that make excuses for why that word was used.
First of all... and most important.... is that there never was, nor has there ever been nor will there ever be a command from God that told us to "Celebrate" this event of Jesus' resurrection.
So... what were they thinking.
It is possible that one of those brainiac translators wanted to be a smart donkey and use the word Easter to show Jimmy how smart their translations were???
In any event.
Britannica says this:
Easter, principal
festival of the
Christian church, which celebrates the
Resurrection of
Jesus Christ on the third day after his
Crucifixion. The earliest recorded observance of an Easter celebration comes from the 2nd century, though the commemoration of Jesus’ Resurrection probably occurred earlier.
Notable is that Easter was not celebrated at the time ACTs was written.
BUT AS THEY EXPAND I THINK THIS IS MORE LIKELY THE CASE.
The English word Easter, which parallels the German word
Ostern, is of uncertain origin. One view, expounded by the Venerable
Bede in the 8th century, was that it derived from Eostre, or Eostrae, the Anglo-Saxon goddess of
spring and
fertility. This view presumes—as does the view associating the origin of
Christmas on December 25 with pagan celebrations of the
winter solstice—that Christians appropriated pagan names and
holidays for their highest festivals. Given the determination with which Christians combated all forms of paganism (the belief in multiple deities), this appears a rather dubious presumption. There is now widespread
consensus that the word derives from the Christian
designation of Easter week as
in albis, a
Latin phrase that was understood as the plural of
alba (“dawn”) and became
eostarum in
Old High German, the
precursor of the modern German and English term.
The Latin and Greek Pascha (“Passover”) provides the root for Pâques, the French word for Easter.
But one has to ask them selves if Jimmy's men would have looked to a French word back in 1611
It is possible because history tells us that in 1606, 24 February Commercial treaty between England and France signed in Paris
But I cannot ignor that pagan end of things which is furthered by
How did we get the word 'Easter?'
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How did we get the word 'Easter?'
The word 'Easter'
The origin of the word Easter is debated. The Venerable Bede (673-735 AD) was fascinated by the dating of Easter, and he postulated that the word derived from an Anglo-Saxon goddess Eostre. However he is the only source for this idea, and there is no other mention of this goddess in material which does not derive directly or indirectly from Bede.
Bede is normally relied upon as an accurate source, but some scholars think that this goddess did not exist.
The Encyclopaedia Britannica says "There is now widespread consensus that..." a Germanic source word led to the English word Easter, via Anglo-Saxon, which also led to the German word for Easter, which is Ostern.
( my note: Now it seems Germany is in the mix over France.........???????????????)
It is thought to come from the word for dawn, which was related to the word for east, because the sun rises at dawn in the east. Eostur-monaþ (Easter month) was the Anglo-Saxon name of the month which we now called April. So the festival of Easter may just be named after the month it usually fell in.
Some people say that we should not use the word 'Easter' because it may refer to a pagan deity, but then so do all the days of our week, which are mainly named after Anglo-Saxon deities. The months January and March are named after Roman gods, and the months July and August are named after deified Roman Emperors. If we stopped using words because in the distant past it may possibly have an etymology derived from a pagan deity, which we have forgotten about and no longer honour nor believe in, then that would invalidate almost all our calendars and diaries, and most church notice boards. Today the reality is that the word Easter is associated with a Christian festival, even if it is linked to many non-Christian or quasi-Christin folk traditions like painted eggs.
So, I shall stop because even though Some people argue that Christians should not use the word Easter because it is not found in the Bible, but then the word Bible is not in the Bible either. Yet many people miss that the word Easter is in the Bible, albeit some old versions. It was used in William Tyndale's New Testament, and is actually still found in one very common translation of the English Bible. The venerable Authorised or King James Version (KJV) uses the word Easter in just one verse in
Acts 12:4. Early editions of the King James Version also included a table for finding the date of Easter. The Church of England clearly had no objection to the use of the word Easter... I find it a problem because we are not told to celebrate this most Holy Day... and to do so under a questionable names for it I find to be a problem
