Originally posted by robbie carrobie
get a haircut you pansy!

It looks as if my thread of "hope" has worked out well.......NOT!! 😞

Originally posted by whodey
It looks as if my thread of "hope" has worked out well.......NOT!! 😞

thats what you get for inviting clan metaliscum into your thread.

Originally posted by whodey
It looks as if my thread of "hope" has worked out well.......NOT!! 😞

Well on the plus side we know that JC wasn't a zombie...

http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2012/04/jesus-lich.jpg

Originally posted by robbie carrobie
Origins of the name "Easter":

The name "Easter" originated with the names of an ancient Goddess and God. The
Venerable Bede, (672-735 CE.) a Christian scholar, first asserted in his book De
Ratione Temporum that Easter was named after Eostre (a.k.a. Eastre). She was the
Great Mother Goddess of the Saxon people in Northern Europe. Similarly, ...[text shortened]... mber his death, not
his resurrection.

http://www.religioustolerance.org/easter1.htm

We would probably agree on more than we think we would robbie.

Acts 12:4 - And when he had apprehended him, he put him in prison, and delivered him to four quaternions of soldiers to keep him; intending after Easter to bring him forth to the people.

Herod wanted to wait till after Easter, not because he didn't want to offend Christians, but because it was his pagan holiday.

Why Christianity has adopted the term to celebrate Jesus' resurrection is beyond me.

Sorry whodey. I celebrate the resurrection everyday. I don't have any high holy days to keep. Everyday is the same.

Originally posted by josephw
We would probably agree on more than we think we would robbie.

Acts 12:4 - [b]And when he had apprehended him, he put him in prison, and delivered him to four quaternions of soldiers to keep him; intending after Easter to bring him forth to the people.

Herod wanted to wait till after Easter, not because he didn't want to offend Christians, but beca ate the resurrection everyday. I don't have any high holy days to keep. Everyday is the same.[/b]

what translation is that? dont you mean after the passover?

Originally posted by robbie carrobie
what translation is that? dont you mean after the passover?

The KJV translators got it right robbie. Every word.

Originally posted by robbie carrobie
thats what you get for inviting clan metaliscum into your thread.

Like the gospel, my thread was not exclusionary. 😛

Originally posted by josephw
The KJV translators got it right robbie. Every word.

The English word "Easter" can refer to events before the "resurrection of Jesus Christ" that it commemorates?

Originally posted by FMF
The English word "Easter" can refer to events before the "resurrection of Jesus Christ" that it commemorates?

Read robbies previous post above. On page one.

Originally posted by josephw
The KJV translators got it right robbie. Every word.

Actually the Greek word translated "Easter" is the same Greek word that the same
KJV translates "Passover" in all other places. The only difference is all other
"Passovers" were on or before the crucifixion of Christ. The NKJV has corrected
this error. I believe the reason the KJV translaters used "Easter" instead is
because they had come to believe that "Easter" had replaced the "Passover".
We know better now.

P.S. Christ is our Passover. HalleluYah !!!