[B-Greek] Easter question

harley486 at insightbb.com harley486 at insightbb.com
Sun Apr 1 23:09:16 EDT 2007


No, its not.  It's Passover. "Easter" did not even exist as "Easter" when
the bible was written.  PASXA is what is translated as "Passover" and does
refer to the Jewish holiday. and is the same holiday Jesus' disciples and
the church celebrated in remembrance of Christ, for he said "Do this in
remembrance of Me".  Some Christians do celebrate Passover instead of
easter.  I am one of those who do and it is because Jesus is the Passover
lamb.  Passover is clearly a shadow of what would happen on the Cross and
then Jesus defeating death for us by rising from the dead.  Early
Christians only celebrated Passover and then Constantine tried to mingle
the Christian celebration with a pagan tradition which fell near the same
time.  The result was something which has meaning to most Christians in
remembering the resurrection of Christ, but the painted eggs, Easter
bunnies and the name Easter itself all come from the pagan worship of a
false goddess.  The Greek word for Passover, PASXA is simply a
transliteration of the same word in Hebrew.

Hope this helps,

Pia Mikeal

On Sun, 1 Apr 2007, George F Somsel wrote:

> Yes, PASXA is "Easter" in Greek.
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> Subject: [B-Greek] Easter question
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> My friend got an email from one of his friends in
> Athens, Greece. She signed it KAI KALO PASCA. Now I
> know she is not Jewish. Could someone explain how
> PASCA is the Greek equivolent of Easter? I note that
> the Passover occurs near in time to Easter, but are
> they equivolent?
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> Mitch Larramore
> Sugar Land, Texas
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