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HopeSS: Christ and Religious Tradition — 3 Comments

1. Where can we find the verse in the bible about "Easter" except in King James version in Acts 12:4. Did the diciples of Jesus observed this tradition? Neither Jesus teach them to follow this observance? Is "Isthar" comes from the word worshipping false god or queen of heaven?
   Is it like "Christmas" as what we are observing since childhood? Looking forward to any insights. Indeed, a great help in my spiritual journey.

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   • The English word, "Easter" is derived from the name of an ancient Pagan Goddess Eostre According to the Anglo Saxon Historian Bede:

     “Eostur-monath has a name which is now translated Paschal month, and which was once called after a goddess of theirs named Eostre, in whose honour feasts were celebrated in that month. Now they designate that Paschal season by her name.”

     Note the Anglo-Saxons converted to Christianity around the 6th century A.D. before that Christians did not call the Paschal holiday Easter.

     In languages in countries with a Christian heritage other than English, they do not use the word Easter for the Christian Holiday but rather a word derived from the Hebrew word in “Pesach" the Biblical Hebrew name for Passover: These include:

     Afrikaans: Paasfees
     Albanian: Pashkët
     Amharic: (Fasika)
     Azeri: Pasxa
     Berber: tafaska
     Catalan: Pasqua
     Danish: Påke
     Dutch: Pasen or paasfeest
     Esperanto: Pasko
     Faroese: Pákir (plural, no singular exists)
     Finnish: Pääsiänen
     French: Pâues
     Greek: Πάσχα (Pascha)
     Hebrew: פסחא (Pascha)
     Icelandic: Pákar
     Indonesian: Paskah
     Irish: Cáisc
     Italian: Pasqua
     Japanese: Seidai Pasuha, "Holy and Great Pascha",
     Latin: Pascha or Festa Paschalia
     Lower Rhine: German Paisken
     Malayalam: പെശഹ (Pæsacha/Pæsaha)
     Northern Ndebele: Pasika
     Norwegian: Påske
     Persian: Pas`h
     Polish: Pascha
     Portuguese: Páscoa
     Romanian: Paşte
     Russian: Пасха (Paskha)
     Scottish Gaelic: Casca
     Spanish: Pascua
     Swedish: Påsk
     Tagalog: (Philippines) Pasko ng Muling Pagkabuhay
     Turkish Paskalya
     Welsh: Pasg

     Again most Christians do not call the Christian Holiday Easter mostly only English speakers do, most Christians call the Holiday by a name derived from the Hebrew word for Passover.

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2. marvel not!for the hope Sabbath school did not come to call non righteous, but to teach the word of god true the power of the holy spirit that abides in the soul and manifest in the life as it soften the hard hearts of the broken hearted and bring them to repentance in the acceptance of jesus.may the lord continue to bless,strengten,guide,protect,and refreshed the hope Sabbath school as you lead others to Christ. god bless every one of you. JOSEPH FROM N Y.

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