Easter has nothing to do with Christ.
Easter is actually a redressing of the pagan spring equinox and the celebration of the Anglo-Saxon goddess Eostre.[/QUOTE]
Well we are digging. And we are headed in the right direction.
The Council of Nicea set the date for Easter in 325 AD.
Anglo-Saxon England or Early Medieval England, existing from the 5th to the 11th century.
The goddess Eostre is the origins of Easter?....No. What is wrong with this picture?
It is the origin of the
word Easter. Germanic spring fertility goddess. This is where the egg and the rabbit comes from.
Emperor Constantine wanted to consolidate Pagan holidays with Christian holidays, so that commerce and government would not be disrupted all the time....so many of the Christian holidays of today coincide with Pagan holidays. But in this case, that had nothing to do with the dating of the day that Christ resurrected. How many ways do things get confused?
The Council of Nicea was tasked with setting the date to celebrate Christ's resurrection....nearly a no brainer.
So any explanation that connects the word Easter to Passover is incorrect. The ecumenical councils were not concerned with Passover or its dating....other than the final determination that Christ's resurrection occurred on the Sunday after the Passover.. Today Easter is always celebrated the Sunday after the Passover, but Passover can occur on any day of the week, because it is based on the full moon. And Easter occurs on different dates because it is pushed to Sunday.
So if you were on the Ecumenical Council, lets say a Bishop.....how would you refer to it....Christ's resurrection. The day that Christ resurrected? Here is the secret....it is not a word. The Jews had festivals and the Greco-Romans had festivals....that is how they worded things. We know of no Jewish Christians on the Council, they were Gentiles and they came form the Greco-Roman culture. But still ya gotta say what ya don't know....we had no microphones at the Council of Nicea. We can only say that they probably referred to it as the Festival of Christ's Resurrection. It could not be called Easter because that word did not exist yet.
Now because of the lunar calculation for Passover and the Sunday following that falls around the time of the spring festivals.... which the patron goddess of that Greco-Roman festival was Floria.... I bet that you have not heard that name associated with Easter! LOL But that is the festival that everyone trips out over. The Greco-Romans did not have a Germanic goddess in their mythology......bingo! Did the lightbulb turn on!
Around April 20th - 28th....or more accurately the Vernier Equinox, was the dates of the Floralia, a festival dedicated to the goddess Flora, the ancient Roman goddess of flowers and fertility. Flora was associated with Spring, the season of new life and color, and her feast days were celebrated as a lavish festival dedicated to honoring and celebrating the spring season.
All this concern over Easter being a Pagan holiday is something about nothing. It happened that Christ resurrected during the time of the spring festival. The word Easter just added to the confusion. So now you know.[/QUOTE] Yes, I read that blog as well.
Jesus was crucified after the spring equinox and resurrected three days later.
Easter has nothing to do with Christ.
Easter is actually a redressing of the pagan spring equinox and the celebration of the Anglo-Saxon goddess Eostre.[/QUOTE]
Well we are digging. And we are headed in the right direction.
The Council of Nicea set the date for Easter in 325 AD.
Anglo-Saxon England or Early Medieval England, existing from the 5th to the 11th century.
The goddess Eostre is the origins of Easter?....No. What is wrong with this picture?
It is the origin of the
word Easter. Germanic spring fertility goddess. This is where the egg and the rabbit comes from.
Emperor Constantine wanted to consolidate Pagan holidays with Christian holidays, so that commerce and government would not be disrupted all the time....so many of the Christian holidays of today coincide with Pagan holidays. But in this case, that had nothing to do with the dating of the day that Christ resurrected. How many ways do things get confused?
The Council of Nicea was tasked with setting the date to celebrate Christ's resurrection....nearly a no brainer.
So any explanation that connects the word Easter to Passover is incorrect. The ecumenical councils were not concerned with Passover or its dating....other than the final determination that Christ's resurrection occurred on the Sunday after the Passover.. Today Easter is always celebrated the Sunday after the Passover, but Passover can occur on any day of the week, because it is based on the full moon. And Easter occurs on different dates because it is pushed to Sunday.
So if you were on the Ecumenical Council, lets say a Bishop.....how would you refer to it....Christ's resurrection. The day that Christ resurrected? Here is the secret....it is not a word. The Jews had festivals and the Greco-Romans had festivals....that is how they worded things. We know of no Jewish Christians on the Council, they were Gentiles and they came form the Greco-Roman culture. But still ya gotta say what ya don't know....we had no microphones at the Council of Nicea. We can only say that they probably referred to it as the Festival of Christ's Resurrection. It could not be called Easter because that word did not exist yet.
Now because of the lunar calculation for Passover and the Sunday following that falls around the time of the spring festivals.... which the patron goddess of that Greco-Roman festival was Floria.... I bet that you have not heard that name associated with Easter! LOL But that is the festival that everyone trips out over. The Greco-Romans did not have a Germanic goddess in their mythology......bingo! Did the lightbulb turn on!
Around April 20th - 28th....or more accurately the Vernier Equinox, was the dates of the Floralia, a festival dedicated to the goddess Flora, the ancient Roman goddess of flowers and fertility. Flora was associated with Spring, the season of new life and color, and her feast days were celebrated as a lavish festival dedicated to honoring and celebrating the spring season.
All this concern over Easter being a Pagan holiday is something about nothing. It happened that Christ resurrected during the time of the spring festival. The word Easter just added to the confusion. So now you know.[/QUOTE]
Yes, I know I too have read those same blogs.
Constantine and Easter | OUPblog
https://truthsnitch.com/2018/03/15/think-easter-pagan-part-2-constantine-conspiracy/