[B-Greek] Easter question
Kevin Riley
klriley at alphalink.com.au
Mon Apr 2 02:36:38 EDT 2007
I think you will find that Pascha as a Christian celebration of Jesus' death
and resurrection long predates Constantine. And I very much doubt we can
blame Constantine for the bunnies or the eggs. I am happy to blame
Constantine for some of the things I believe to be wrong with the Christian
church, but let's at least do so on an accurate factual basis. The word
Easter is pagan, as are the names of the days of the week and quite a number
of religious words - basically anything that is not Latin or Greek -
although, many of those also come from the pre-Christian days and could
legitimately be called 'pagan'. So I don't see that much can be made of that
Pascha has meant the same as Easter [with or without the bunnies and/or
eggs] for about 1900 years, so I can't see much sense in denying that when a
Greek says "pascha" s/he means much the same as we mean when we say "Easter"
Kevin Riley
-------Original Message-------
From: harley486 at insightbb.com
Date: 2/04/2007 12:10:54 PM
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.
>
> George
> gfsomsel
> _________
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