Origin Of Christmas Easter

The origins of christmas and easter edition 3 0 19980117 20071215 20081215 20100430 christians have been conditioned to accept that christmas and easter are essentially part of the christian tradition.

Origin of christmas easter. The origins of easter customs. However this is not the case. I gave up on the religion i was born into the church many years ago i don t know why or how it happened to me. A lot of popular traditions that are associated with christmas are not indeed christian in origin.

Both are counterfeits of real biblical events the birth of jesus christ at the time of the biblical holy days in the fall in the holy land and the passover that he commands us to remember him by. The pagan origins of christmas and easter. Likewise the egg has come to represent spring fertility and renewal. As outlined previously a hare was a symbol associated with eostre representing the beginning of springtime.

The old stump symbolized the dead nimrod the new evergreen tree symbolized that nimrod had come to life again in tammuz. 4 states when the puritans came to north america they regarded the celebration of easter and the celebration of christmas with suspicion. They knew that pagans had celebrated the return of spring long before christians celebrated. Many have pre christian beginnings in pagan festivals that were celebrated by the pagan populace around the.

A children s book about the holiday easter parade. The earlier term yule may have derived from the germanic jōl or the anglo saxon geōl which referred to the feast of the winter solstice the corresponding terms in other languages navidad in spanish natale in italian noël in french all. The fact is that neither is at all christian and both have their roots in the mystery cults the saturnalia the worship of the mother goddess. The most widely practiced customs on easter sunday relate to the symbol of the rabbit easter bunny and the egg.

In the modern age the majority of the world view christmas as a christian holiday in origin. Welcome sweet spring time by steve englehart p. Always learning always searching for answers to questions perhaps holds true to you as it does to me. The english word easter which parallels the german word ostern is of uncertain origin one view expounded by the venerable bede in the 8th century was that it derived from eostre or eostrae the anglo saxon goddess of spring and fertility this view presumes as does the view associating the origin of christmas on december 25 with pagan celebrations of the winter solstice that christians.

The following demonstrates what the babylonians believe about the origin of the christmas tree.