Easter Traditions?

[Tcg]

Are there any Easter Traditions that are related specifically to Jesus' resurrection? The Easter eggs hunts, bunnies and pastel-colored candies seem to be a celebration of spring. Certainly, sermons will be preached on Jesus' resurrection, but are there any Easter Traditions that Christians practice with their families that are focused on Jesus?


Tcg

[bjs1]

Are there any Easter Traditions that are related specifically to Jesus' resurrection? The Easter eggs hunts, bunnies and pastel-colored candies seem to be a celebration of spring. Certainly, sermons will be preached on Jesus' resurrection, but are there any Easter Traditions that Christians practice with their families that are focused on Jesus?


Tcg

Sunrise worship, either as an individual family or as a part of a church service. It is usually outdoors.

[Tcg]

Are there any Easter Traditions that are related specifically to Jesus' resurrection? The Easter eggs hunts, bunnies and pastel-colored candies seem to be a celebration of spring. Certainly, sermons will be preached on Jesus' resurrection, but are there any Easter Traditions that Christians practice with their families that are focused on Jesus?


Tcg

Sunrise worship, either as an individual family or as a part of a church service. It is usually outdoors.

Ah, yes. I'd forgotten about those. One of the members of a church I used to attend had a fairly large lawn and the elders would set up three crosses on a distant mound and we'd meet for a sunrise service. If I remember right, we'd also have communion. I wasn't aware that some individual families practiced this tradition.


Tcg

[Miles]

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Considering that pork is a huge no-no among Hebrews I find it a bit incongruous that ham, adopted as thee traditional meat of Easter dinners in the United States, is served in honor of the most famous Jew of all time.


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[2ndpillar2]

Are there any Easter Traditions that are related specifically to Jesus' resurrection? The Easter eggs hunts, bunnies and pastel-colored candies seem to be a celebration of spring. Certainly, sermons will be preached on Jesus' resurrection, but are there any Easter Traditions that Christians practice with their families that are focused on Jesus?


Tcg

Easter, which is the pagan spring festival for Astarte has really nothing to do with the last supper, the Passover meal, which was on this Friday night, the 14th of Nisan (15th of April). The sign to be given was the sign of Jonah, which was 3 days and 3 nights, does not compute to Sunday, and according to Matthew 28:1, it was "late on the Sabbath, as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week", which would be prior to sundown on the 7th day of the week, it is said by the angel, that "he is not here". The Passover meal was on a Wednesday night, the 14th of Nissan, and the next day was a high Feast, the Feast of Unleavened Bread, the 15th of Nisan, and 3 days and 3 nights later was the evening of a weekly Sabbath, the 7th day of the week. Sunday, the day of the Sun god, Sol Invictus, the god of Constantine, who convened the Council of Nicaea, was not part of that equation. The date of Easter was set at the Council of Nicaea, convened by Constantine, whose god was Sol Invictus, and who was the "beast with two horns like a lamb". Constantine was to "deceive" "those who dwell on the earth" (Revelation 13). The emphasis of Easter is on the pagan gods, Sol Invictus, and Astarte, the queen of heaven. The easter egg tradition comes from the customs from the time of Nimrod. The same goes for the Christmas tree tradition.

King James Bible Matthew 28:1
In the end of the sabbath, as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week, came Mary Magdalene and the other Mary to see the sepulchre.

[JoeyKnothead]

My Easter tradition is to tell the young'ns we're having rabbit for supper on that night before and watch em absolutely lose their minds.

[Difflugia]

The sign to be given was the sign of Jonah, which was 3 days and 3 nights, does not compute to Sunday, and according to Matthew 28:1, it was "late on the Sabbath, as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week", which would be prior to sundown on the 7th day of the week, it is said by the angel, that "he is not here".

"The break of dawn" is not prior to sundown the evening before. The Greek word for dawn here isn't just the beginning of the day that can be shifted around with the inevitable Easter harmonizations, but it means the first light of day. It's ἐπιφαύσκω (epiphausko), literally "to shine out," which is the meaning it gets in the Septuagint translation of Job 25:5 ("...and though the stars don't shine..."). The verse is referring to Sunday morning, whether that's at the beginning of the Greek day or halfway through the Jewish one.

The Passover meal was on a Wednesday night, the 14th of Nissan

In all four Gospels, the crucifixion was on Friday. In Matthew, Mark, and Luke, the Passover meal was eaten the day before, on Thursday. In John, it was eaten the day after, on Saturday.

[JehovahsWitness]

Are there any Easter Traditions that are related specifically to Jesus' resurrection? The Easter eggs hunts, bunnies and pastel-colored candies seem to be a celebration of spring. ...


Tcg

I dont believe so, which is why we Jehovah's Witnesses do not celebrate Easter. One has to wonder that people have not linked spring, eggs and RABBITS with fertility rituals.

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[JehovahsWitness]

Are there any Easter Traditions that are related specifically to Jesus' resurrection? The Easter eggs hunts, bunnies and pastel-colored candies seem to be a celebration of spring. Certainly, sermons will be preached on Jesus' resurrection, but are there any Easter Traditions that Christians practice with their families that are focused on Jesus?


Tcg

Sunrise worship, either as an individual family or as a part of a church service. It is usually outdoors.

I've never heard of this. Do you have a bible verse upon which this tradition (?) Is based? Apart from being outside what exactly does this entail?

Thanks,




JW

[JehovahsWitness]

In all four Gospels, the crucifixion was on Friday. In Matthew, Mark, and Luke, the Passover meal was eaten the day before, on Thursday. In John, it was eaten the day after, on Saturday.

Biblically Jesus did indeed die on a Friday. The passover meal was on the same "day" (Friday) the Jews counting their days from Sunset-to-Sunset.




JW

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